🚀 go-pugleaf

Earlier this week, my Kaspersky antivirus software starting
interfering with my launching Firefox 2.0.0.10.  This was right after
FF had upgraded to that version, and Kaspersky was preventing the SSL
part of FF from loading.

I tried a bunch of things and Kaspersky still flagged FF.  I
eventually "solved" the FF issue by uninstalling and reinstalling it.

But one of the things I did was to download a new version of Stinger
(3.8.0, built September 10, 2007) and run that.  I've run it in normal
mode and more recently in safe mode, and whenever I've run it, I've
had problems.

The first times I ran it, it would just stop running while scanning
the file backup.exe from the program files\MozBackup directory
(MozBackup was freeware I used once, when porting my Firefox setup
from an old computer to my current on).  I tried uninstalling
MozBackup and it was reported that "some parts couldn't be
uninstalled."  I finally wound up starting in DOS mode and manually
deleting the backup.exe file.

After that, each time I ran Stinger, still in normal mode, my computer
itself would eventually just lock up and I'd have to manually restart
it (when Stinger would stop running the first times, every other part
of my computer ran fine, and even in Stinger, I could click on "About"
or try to stop the scan).  This happened several times.

Now today, I have some time on my hands, so I restarted in Safe Mode
and ran Stinger, and this time it flew through the files it was
scanning until it got to C:\Program
Files\MsnMusic\4226251\MsnMusic.exe and then it just sat there for 20
minutes until I restarted my computer.  MsnMusic is a 536k file that
it should scan in an eyeblink.

I've used earlier versions of stinger and never had any problems (nor
have I ever had it detect anything).  What's going on here?

My computer is running XP SP2.  It's regularly virus scanned by
Kaspersky every day and has always come up clean (and continues to
come up clean).  Kaspersky also "blessed" the MsnMusic.exe and
backup.exe files that were stopping stinger.  I have regularly-updated
spybot and ad-aware on my computer and run these once a week, and
other than benign advertising tracking cookies from my browser, they
never find anything.

Hope the above information is helpful.  Even though I can use my
computer fine, regularly, I'm bothered that "something" might be wrong
with it, and I'd like to know what else I can do to investigate.