Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:
> OK thanks for everyone's suggestions which turned up some useful
> information for later use. The apparent cause of the freeze was
> much simpler: something mysteriously snatched 85 mb of free space
> on drive C, leaving me under 1 mb. Apparently Mozilla does not
> terminate gracefully in this case and just freezes the system.
>
> I haven't a clue where the space went, but when I rebooted a
> few times and cleaned out a few things (NOT 85 mb!) I got all
> the missing space back.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
> Jeffrey Race
>
>
> On Tue, 25 May 2004 19:57:16 +0100, Liz Gerard wrote:
>
>>It's *unlikely* to be a straight-out bad interaction between Mozilla
>>and Win98 - Win98 is a heavily-tested platform for Mozilla. It might
>>be Windows bitrot. But you probably don't want to wipe and reinstall
>>Windows just to test!
Sounds like there might have been some spyware or similar that had
installed itself. Do you use Adaware? (http://www.lavasoft.de) It works
like an antivirus program (which means the definition files need to be
kept up to date) to detect spyware, tracking cookies etc. And there's a
freeware version available.
Liz
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