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    Real Player pain!
    « on: January 22, 2008, 12:18:24 PM »
    Since updating Real Player yesterday, Online Armor firewall keeps warning me each time I open up Firefox that a dangerous program, Realplayer.exe is trying to run. I have scanned with AVG anti virus, AVG anti spyware, AVG anti rootkill, A-Squared, RemoveIt. Nothing found and I think the problem is with OA. I have marked Realplayer as "Trusted" in the program list. But still I get the warning box come up. Is there an alternative to Real Player that would not cause this problem, or is there something else I can do?
    Thanks for any suggestion.
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    AVG Anti Spyware
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    Win Patrol
    Spyware Blaster
    RemoveIt anti virus
    A Squared anti maleware
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    Re: Real Player pain!
    « Reply #1 on: January 22, 2008, 12:25:40 PM »
    Is there an alternative to Real Player

    I dont know if Real Alternative is what you would want.
    Real Alternative http://filehippo.com/download_real_alternative/

    I use Media Monkey http://www.mediamonkey.com/

    WinAmp www.winamp.com is also very good.

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    Re: Real Player pain!
    « Reply #2 on: January 22, 2008, 12:47:11 PM »
    Remove Real Player from your startup folder...it doesn't need to be there anyways...
    Also dis-able auto-updates in Real Player which is also useless.

    EF's alternative is a nice suggestion.
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      Re: Real Player pain!
      « Reply #3 on: January 22, 2008, 01:10:32 PM »
      Thanks. I have uninstalled Real Player and downloaded and installed Real Alternative to give it a try. Just opened up Firefox and no warning!

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      Re: Real Player pain!
      « Reply #4 on: January 22, 2008, 07:43:16 PM »
      Real Player is a Real SOB, rather.