Infernal Application Error

[Incog Neato]

ARRRRGGH.

I've been dealing with this damn issue for about 2 hours now. I think it started yesterday or a few days ago where basically, every time I exit Firefox, I'd get an ever-so-generic "XPCOM: event reciever firefox.exe - application error
The instruction at "xxxxxxxxxx" referenced memory at "xxxxxxxxxxxx". The memory could not be "read"." error.

The x's represent ... an address??? (Numbers and letters.)

Anyway, I've been searching all over Google and it seems like this error can happen to any sort of app in Windows. :/ I've done the whole Firefox Safe Mode, disable add-ons, delete Flash, remove Java, check for spyware, etc. with Hijack This!, AND a clean install.

What I'm left with now is doing a RAM check with Memtest86. It's only at Test #8 and I think it has one more to go after it. I dunno if the results it'll spew out will mean anything to me though. :/ I doubt it'll have a nice blatant "HEY! YOUR RAM IS MESSED UP. HARDY HAR HAR! GO BUY NEW RAM!"

:|

So yeah, anyone else experience this before? If so, what did you do?._.

Edit: WHAT. THE ... HELL!?

"Pass complete, no errors, press ESC to exit"

SO WHAT THE HELL IS CAUSING FIREFOX TO NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY!?

[Slayne]

On the clean install have you tried renaming the install directory? While running memtest alone isn't a 100% certainty that your memory is ok, with only firefox crashing I'd be more inclined to think it an issue with a sector of your hard drive.

I'd try running a chkdsk and forcing the install into another directory and see if it crashes this way. By forcing it to save into a different bit of the HD, it might help you verify if a sector has become corrupted.

Another thing, when removing Firefox, go into the your local user profile directory and remove the mozilla temp folders under the application directories of Application and Temporary Internet files. Even though you are removing the program, some temp files get left behind that are re-used incase you bring the program back and it is possible that one of those is corrupted.

[Incog Neato]

Well, I deleted the install directory and profiles as well. But I didn't try reinstalling onto another partition or anything. I guess I'll try that when I get home today. :/

Now the other thing I seem to be experiencing is pop-ups whenever I use either Firefox or IE7. I already have Messenger disabled long ago and I can't think of anything I installed recently that would have allowed crap to get through.

I've been trying to research on this but all the answers seem to be about blocking pop ups with a browser's block pop-up option or stopping Messenger from running. I already have/did these two from way back when. >_>

And there's an issue that the browsers can't access certain sites nor can I do searches on Google. I know for sure that's a system issue on the desktop since everything is fine on the laptop.

Guh. :/

[Slayne]

Sounds like a spyware issue if basic google searches aren't responding.

Try running the following program in safe-mode, followed by whatever your favorite spyware cleaner is. Preferably something along the lines of Ewido or Spybot, as Ad-Aware has in my experience been extremely lacking.


forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=74265

[Incog Neato]

Yeah, I should switch up my -ware searching program for once. I just installed Avast! since AntiVir didn't manage to detect anything until VundoFix was doing its sweep of the system and by that time, it was too late. :B

Everything is fine now since I did a reinstall of Windows. Unfortunately, I wasn't bright enough to back up my e-mails so now I lost a bunch of important registrations for programs I purchased. :P Or my save games for Falcom games. ://///

From now on, I'm going to be registering stuff when Gmail or something!

Anyway, thankees for your help! :D