Ktn

Things are not going right lately. In the last 2 or 3 weeks Firefox is freezing when I’m trying to log into Gmail or when clicking the ‘Spam’ folder (to do manual cleanup).

I’m now more careful when I have more tabs opened in Firefox. I don’t lose them if a freeze happens because I have the Session Manager add-on, but it’s annoying anyways.

Haven’t really researched about this. Any pointer will be welcome!

Today I disabled completely the Windows XP Automatic Updates from my home PC, since looks like it’s crap these days. Patch Tuesday happened several days ago and it keeps telling that it has updates to install. The System Tray icon disappears after accepting to install the updates and then you don’t see it again. When shutting it down it displays an option that says something like “Install updates and shutdown” (the other machine is in spanish so I’m not sure which is the actual sentence in english). That has happened like 4 times already. This just gives a bad impression, several hours and it cannot install 5 updates?!

I’m going to remove the red shield icon also.

The Firewall software installed on the ThinkPad is telling me that the mscorsvw.exe is attempting to access the Internet. I searched on the Web and I can see that it “precompiles .NET assemblies in the background”. But why the heck it has to connect to the IP address 131.107.115.28 through HTTP (port 80)?

I’ll block it forever unless I see a good reason why it should be calling home.