[ronchi]

About once a week, when online,I get this warning image at the bottom of my monitor. I immediately get offline. When I go back online it's gone. I run my anti-virus program and PC optimizer, but it still comes back about once a week. Does anybody know what this is, and what I can do about it? Thanks for your help.

Ron

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[LiveBrianD]

That's interesting - that looks like the 'plugin crashed' screen from Firefox.
http://www.geek.com/...lugin-crash.png


What AV program are you using? Also, PC Optimizer software is generally junk.

[ronchi]

Thank you, Brian. That sure does look like the "Shockwave plugin has crashed" image. Thanks for that. I'll check on that right away. And, I use PC Pitstop Optimize 2.0, and frankly, since I've been using it, about 3 years now, I've had a trouble free computer (except for this incident).

Thanks again.

Ron

[LiveBrianD]

Generally, there's no reason to use those programs. What happens if you disable it?

[ronchi]

LiveBrianD, on 02 July 2012 - 12:56 PM, said:

Generally, there's no reason to use those programs. What happens if you disable it?

Well, there's no need to disable it. It doesn't run automatically. I run it once a week myself. Have you checked this specific product out? http://www.pcpitstop...re/optimize.asp
I think it does a good job on my PC. I was having all sorts of problems before I started running it, and now it works pretty smoothly.

Ron

[LiveBrianD]

Anyway, that odd thing doesn't appear to be in an application or anything? If you open Task Manager when it happens, is anything odd listed?