Can piracy help the video game industry?

[Budreaux]

I use FF exclusively, but let me try IE.

Test:

[edit] Not doing it in IE

[Budreaux]

FF again....
Test:

I'll be deleting most of these test posts after I finish.
80334454-4E38-7AEA-CFCB-A493A55D4861
1.02.28

[admin]

So it only affects Firefox ... interesting

Could it be some plugin going bad - the 1.02.28 does sound like a version number of some sort.

[Abuilder]

Budreaux
What version of FF are you using?
The current is 3.6.8

[MilesAhead]

FF again....
Test:

I'll be deleting most of these test posts after I finish.
80334454-4E38-7AEA-CFCB-A493A55D4861
1.02.28

Whatever it is, it's in the format of a GUID string. It's used in programming, also by Windows. It's generated by a method that can supposedly create a "unique identifier." Say, if I wanted only one copy of my program to run on a machine, instead of using "MyProgram" where someone else might pick the same name, inside the test for already running the string used would be one of these GUID strings.

There's a bunch in Windows registry for example. All COM and ActiveX controls use them. It could be anything from the guid for a registry setting, to the unique ID for your version of Windows. It may be just a fluke, but it sure looks creepy to me. I'd try to get if off of there.

edit: also you might want to do a registry search with the string. You might be able to find out what it is. If it's harmless then you can relax a bit.

[Budreaux]

test

[Budreaux]

Well, that seems to have fixed it.... now let me figure out what it was...

[Budreaux]

Trying to recreate it...


Well, no luck.... I have managed to get rid of it, but I can not telly ou what it was for sure other than it was registry related. I ran my registry mechanic and it found 17 errors but I could not get a log of what those errors were..... I have it monitoring it now to see if anything tries to reset itself.

[Budreaux]

Well, it is still appearing on another forum I just posted on...

[MilesAhead]

I wonder if something has glommed itself onto Firefox? Have you tried remove and reinstall?
Did it start happening after a version update?

[Budreaux]

I uninstalled FF and then cleaned the registry again. Didn't save any user settings/info from previous install, so it is a clean install...problems appears to be corrected. Not posting the string on any of the forums I post at now...I'll keep an eye on it though.