My computer freezes whenever I download something with flashget or just load a page with firefox! Anyone have the same problem? It's been happening for a week now, so it's not something temporary.

Oh, it doesn't freeze with uploading.

you whole computer, or just firefox ???
firefox shouldnt be able to hault your whole system, however it is possable firefox could trigger a bug in the underlying OS...

unless you post some info about yuor ssytem its impossable to tell.

anything in the system logs ???

what OS ? windwows 2K, XP, Linux, Unix, solaris MacOSX....... ???

run firefox from the command line....
when it crashes, is there anything on the std error output ???

I think it's not firefox's problem, and it freezed the whole system. It happens with downloading (pages, flash, stuff) on Firefox, IE and Flashget (Those are the only ones I tested with). I use Windows XP. I have 512 ram.

This only started recently, I think it's some kind of virus that's causing the problem.

It seems to me that it is a software conflict that causes the problem.

Try to identify the applications that causes it by checking the last few application installed.

Hope that it will help you to find a sloution.

I haven't installed any applications recently. I think this started when I started coming on this site... >_<

I don't think anything on this site would affect your downloads... Did you check for virus? or spyware? there are a lot of things that can affect your computer but I don't think this site is one of them

Run spybot S&D and adaware to see you are clean. then make sure you don't have any coolwwwsearch hijacks and tun cw shredder... this is just to start.

What OS are you using, ram cpu etc.

Nils

I removed coolwwwsearch and several other things with adaware this morning. My os is windows xp, ram is 512.

I'm gonna download spybot S&D right now...

Yay, a reboot fixed the problem!!! I don't think it was viruses!

Next time this happens - if ur computer seens absolutely frozen and even the mouse cursor isnt responding, try pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait for a while patiently. The task manager will come up - check for a process called svchost.exe - see if it's taking up almost 99% of your cpu cycles... If so, then you have to get a couple of hotfixes for svchost from microsoft. I had this problem for a long time on Win2K - don't know if it affects XP too but from your description thats what it sounds like. Even my system would come down to a grinding halt during downloads. It's not a virus - rather a bug in svchost.

Btw, both Win2K and XP are supposed to have AT THE MOST 4 forked svchost.exe running. If you see more than 4 instances of svchost in the taskmanager then know for sure you are infected with something... To see what all processes svchost is helping to run, fire up a command prompt and type "tasklist /svc" - that will tell you what each instance of svchost is catering to...

Oh, I remembered that svchost took up the second most space during the times when the computer froze. It might be the problem.