[Slogger] McAfee SiteAdvisor 26.1

[Jane Coles]

Since I haven't made an appearance on this list before,
I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Ken Schutte.
I've been using slogger on a daily basis since May 2005 and
have (selectively) accumulated an archive of nearly 3GB.

On Jan 16, I restarted Firefox (1.5) and a bunch of
extensions were automatically updated.  Since I use over
thirty extensions and restart Firefox every two or three
days, this isn't an uncommon event and I paid no particular
attention to what was being updated.  Slogger then stopped
working -- though I didn't initially make any connection
between those updates and that calamity.

When I (eventually) got around to checking every single
extension for the source of the problem, I discovered that
McAfee SiteAdvisor 26.1 was the guilty party.  Updating
Firefox to 2.0 didn't help.  Once I disabled SiteAdvisor,
slogger started working again.  [This is all on a Linux
machine -- I don't use Windows and have no idea if the same
problem also occurs there.]

I've had SiteAdvisor installed for some time and earlier
versions didn't cause slogger any problems.  SiteAdvisor
is handy to have but, unlike slogger, I can live without it.

I've attempted to notify McAfee of the problem but their
web form throws up a VBScript runtime error each time, so I
doubt that I have succeeded.