Process Guard and old "Dr Watson"

I hope that this is not terribly newbie-ish me, but I am a little perplexed at a recent red flag incident.

While attempting a procedure that I perform daily, of opening a "group" of very safe sites in Firefox (1.0.2), everything seemed to hang and eventually the browser simply disappeared, at which time Process Guard initiated itself and bragged that it had blocked 50 attempts to conquer the world of my PC and how about upgrading to the costware version, whereupon I noted within Process Guard that it had blocked about 200 attempts of drwtsn32.exe to "alter the firefox browserâ€â€¦ Now, that exe is the old "Dr Watson" termination handler, which I had not seen surface in years, and for which for some reason I thought had gone the way of the dinosaur long long ago, like about when DOS expired.

My PC appears to be entirely clean of any viri, malware, or anything nefarious. AntiVir, AntiSpyware, A2 (“A Squaredâ€), Adaware, Ewido Security Suite, and SpybotSD have no problem with this exe…

Yes, I did repeat the exact same process that originally failed and this time it worked normally.

Has anyone ran into a similar incident with PG? I am aware that long ago PG was flagged for false positives, but I thought that the situation was fixed - I do not mean to infer that this was a false positive...

And what about Dr W "“ should it still be lurking in the system32 folder?

 

Hi keywester,

And what about Dr W "“ should it still be lurking in the system32 folder?
Yes, still there

Can't give you an opinion on PG, trialed it once and didn't especially like it, went with System Safety Monitor instead.

EDIT: PG's forum is here: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php

Regards - Charles

 

Sounds to me like firefox has been crashing on you, but process guard is prevent the DrWatson tool from latching the process to notify you it threw an exception or creating a dump file for analysis.