anti virus ate my plugin container

[telracs]

i was useing pale moon 32bit when my anti virus (AVG) poped up saying it found something wrong with the plugin-container.exe. out of instanct i told it to handle it. i believe it beleted it. not palemoon will not play youtube videos and hands when loading any page that required a plugin. im saddened cause i loved pale moon ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling. ive tried dragging my firefox one into pale moons folder only to be stopped saying i dont have permission with me being the admin and only user of this PC. im useing windows 7 64bit. please a quick response would make my day. thank you in advance.

[Moonchild]

AVG has already been notified numerous times of problems with destroying Pale Moon installations for no reason and they have NOT responded to it. These are false positives, and AVG should have fixed this many months ago already.
You should stop using AVG and use a different AV suite run by people who actually care about fixing their engine and dealing with false positives. As long as you use AVG, it will continue eating different parts of Pale Moon at random and breaking the browser. The solution is to uninstall AVG and to re-install Pale Moon afterwards, then find a better AV program.

[telracs]

its been reported by me as well. i manually told avg to ignore the plugin-container.exe and also fix my current browser installiation by downlaoding the zipped package, deleving the folder, then copy and pasting the folder back in to its originally location. AVG is a great AV and has never steered me wrong. i have high hopes it will get fixed. thank you so much for your time and effort. and thank you so much for an extremely wonderful browser.

[megaman]

I have to vouch for AVG being a bit bad, due to tests comparing many antivirus programs out there.

I am not here to recommend but I also want to add that Emsisoft catches some traces from PaleMoon.

[Moonchild]

AVG is a great AV and has never steered me wrong. i have high hopes it will get fixed.

I has the impression too that it was a decent AV, but these problems started with v4 of Pale Moon, and they have never been addressed by the AVG team, despite the no doubt countless reports of people having their browser destroyed by it.
So my hopes have dwindled pretty fast that AVG would address a very serious issue like this. It has deleted palemoon.exe, plugin-container.exe and other essential components of the browser on different systems. These days I just advise people to move away from it because it's destructive, counterproductive, and it doesn't make your system exactly safer if you have to make all sorts of exceptions on files and folders, making them unprotected from potential attacks.

[Night Wing]

My neighbor runs Windows 7 64-bit on all three of his computers and he has the Pale Moon 7.0.1 and Firefox 8.0 browsers. For an anti-virus program, he runs the free version of Avast. He has had no problems with Pale Moon or Firefox with Avast installed.

With my old 7 year backup XP 32-bit computer; Pale Moon 7.0.1, Firefox 7.0.1, SeaMonkey 2.0.14 and IE8 browsers play very nicely with the free version of the Avast anti-virus program and my old backup computer has never been compromised by a virus or any type of malware running with Avast. Why don't you try Avast?

I know you like AVG, but if it's slowly destroying your favorite Pale Moon browser, it's not worth keeping AVG.

The above is just food for thought.

[megaman]

Why don't you try Avast?

Once again, you don't fail to amaze me. I've been using avast! for about 6-7 years.
It did find some problems with Pale Moon in the past, but it was fixed immediately.

AVG needs to listen to the developers and customers alike and do their part.

[Moonchild]

AVG needs to listen to the developers and customers alike and do their part.

Hear, hear!
But I guess they still have not outgrown what they started off as: hobbyists. They need to take some lessons in corporate responsibility.