Thunderbird stopped working in Win 10 when I used Windows Defender instead of AVG (if Thunderbird not dangerously excluded from Defender scans) - what solution?
Thunderbird stopped working in Win 10 when I used Windows Defender instead of AVG - free,
The event log of Win 10 had many "ERROR! Application Hang." entries, all saying this: The program thunderbird.exe version 38.3.0.5749 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control pant Process ID: 1acc Start Time: 01 d102e33137ce7e Log Name: Application Source: Application Hang Logged: 10/10/2015 00:45:36 Event ID: 1002 Task Category: (101) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer VidAce OpCode:
Things got back to normal when I excluded thunderbird.EXE from the scanning operations of Window sdefender. But this is dangerous to security. How to fix this please? Thanks.
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Thunderbird is compatible with Windows 10. Any defender issues are just that. Something Microsoft must fix.
As far a malicious attachments go. What about them?
Before they can do any harm they must be turned into a binary file from the text they are converted to to attach to mail and then be written to the Temp folder so they can be passed to the operating system with a request to open them. Any anti virus program that can not detect the payload of a newly written file and prevent it's opening is not worth the CPU cycles that is consumes to fail in it's primary function. Defender claims to do this. If it does not, again an issue for Microsoft. Now Thunderbird..
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I think your asking the wrong people.
What is happening with Windows defender that it is crippling Thunderbird is the question I see, and only Microsoft can answer that.
However I rally do not see much of an issue with excluding Thunderbird from defenders scans. Do you think it has a virus in it? Or that there is a virus that would infect only Thunderbird and not every program it can get access to?
If you run at a limited user on Windows your user account can not update a program to add a virus to it, unless you explicitly allow it with a password. Even as administrator you get a prompt.
Thanks. 1. If Mozilla software is not compatible with Win 10, maybe the company could make it compatible? 2. what about a malicious email attachment?
I have permitted defender to scan Thunderbird files now. Thunderbird still seems to be running OK now (so far.)
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Thunderbird is compatible with Windows 10. Any defender issues are just that. Something Microsoft must fix.
As far a malicious attachments go. What about them?
Before they can do any harm they must be turned into a binary file from the text they are converted to to attach to mail and then be written to the Temp folder so they can be passed to the operating system with a request to open them. Any anti virus program that can not detect the payload of a newly written file and prevent it's opening is not worth the CPU cycles that is consumes to fail in it's primary function. Defender claims to do this. If it does not, again an issue for Microsoft. Now Thunderbird..
Thanks.