I am curious. When I view the daily report my Shaw f-secure leaves for me after scanning my computer, there are at least 10 Mozilla Firefox files that f-secure cannot open.

Shaw will tell me that it's nothing to fret about - but this gathering of Firefox "closed" files is new and I would like to know why they can't be opened and examined by f-secure.

I can provide you with a list of the files if it would help with your reply. This is one of the 10 files in today's report. The dashes were put there by me to replace a number.

"Cannot open a file in archive C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\OWNER\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\MOZILLA\FIREFOX\PROFILES\ ------.DEFAULT\CACHE(9)\_CACHE_001)ER\LOCAL "

Is Firefox running when the F-secure scan occurs?

The file you referred to is one of several cache files for Firefox and they can not be accessed by another program while in use by Firefox.

Hi Dick!

No, nothing is running during the scan except Shaw Secure. It runs at dawn.

Having said that - there are no obvious programs running, but I just turn off the screen at night. Firefox is definitely not running. Anything that boots up and runs in the background is still running I suppose.

I find it curious that it has only recently started listing these cached files.

I use both Firefox and IE.

Double check and make sure their isn't an instance of Firefox running that may have crashed. Use the Task Manager to check what programs are running.

Nope. Not running.

Have you tried the old fixall...reboot

oh ya ... that one even I know!