Spybot and Firefox!

[Sleek26]

For some reason spybot won't detect that i have firefox installed, it won't load the protection for firefox just IE, i have the same problem within spywareblaster too, running Vista Ultimate 32bit, Nod32 as my av and Comodo as my firewall!

Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

[Zenobia]

Is your Firefox installed in the default location,etc,or did you custom install or anything?
The reason I ask is that I was able to get Spybot not to "see" Firefox by removing the Mozilla folder from C:\Users\<myusername>\AppData\Roaming.It's probably unlikely your Mozilla folder is not located there,but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

[PepiMK]

The location where the executable is installed shouldn't matter. I'll try to describe how our tools try to locate the Mozilla/Firefox/&c browsers:

1. For each user, it gets the application data folder.
2. There, it looks for the following files in subfolders:
   • Phoenix\registry.dat
   • Mozilla\registry.dat
   • Beonex\registry.dat
   • Firebird\registry.dat
   • nsreg.dat
   • Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini
   • Thunderbird\profiles.ini
3. Each of these files, if it exists, should point to a prefs.js file, which is then regarded as a profile location of the corresponding browser.

(Only exception: for K-Meleon, another clone, the registry file is looked for in a subfolder of the program files folder)

btw, @Zenobia: are you part of a domain (since you mention a roaming folder)?

[Sleek26]

Is your Firefox installed in the default location,etc,or did you custom install or anything?
The reason I ask is that I was able to get Spybot not to "see" Firefox by removing the Mozilla folder from C:\Users\<myusername>\AppData\Roaming.It's probably unlikely your Mozilla folder is not located there,but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

Hi mate, yes its there, the profile folders are all in the correct place i assume, i installed them all in the default locations, i have uninstalled and reinstalled 2 or 3 times firefox and each time removing all its remnants.

The location where the executable is installed shouldn't matter. I'll try to describe how our tools try to locate the Mozilla/Firefox/&c browsers:

1. For each user, it gets the application data folder.
2. There, it looks for the following files in subfolders:
* Phoenix\registry.dat
* Mozilla\registry.dat
* Beonex\registry.dat
* Firebird\registry.dat
* nsreg.dat
* Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini
* Thunderbird\profiles.ini
3. Each of these files, if it exists, should point to a prefs.js file, which is then regarded as a profile location of the corresponding browser.

(Only exception: for K-Meleon, another clone, the registry file is looked for in a subfolder of the program files folder)

Hi, do you mean the "AppData" folder? if so theres 3 folders under that which are Local, Localnow and Roaming, under Local there is a Mozilla\Firefox\ folder but no Registry.dat files, within those folders there are cache files etc.

Under the Roaming folder there is a \Mozilla\Firefox and \Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles folder which my profiles are located under, in the \Mozilla\Firefox folder there is the profiles.ini and the pluginreg.dat, i can't find a Registry.dat file within any of those folders.

I also can't find an nsreg.dat file

Hope that info helps.

Best Regards

Sleek26

[PepiMK]

Here's a project tools issue about it:
Firefox not fully supported on Vista
Problem confirmed and fixed

[Sleek26]

Hi, does this mean there will be a new beta soon for spybot that corrects this issue? im not sure how the system works here

Thanks and good work.

[PepiMK]

Yes, about that

First, in the next days there'll be just a new main executable (SpybotSD.exe) available in that issue. That's more like an immediate alpha, though since we're that short after the final 1.5 and these are small maintenance fixes, I doubt they would create new problems.
Also, we plan a new full (installer & all) beta package quite soon.

[Sleek26]

Sounds Great