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Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger, problem or helper?

  • 14-06-2007 9:32am
    #1
    Irish Gardener
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭


    Hello all.
    Last night I got your regular "windows has performed an illegal operation" message followed by a Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger message.
    The laptop locked up, I could move the mouse, but was unable to click on anything even to the point of being unable to ctrl alt delete.
    So I hibernated the system manually with the on board power button.
    I restarted from hibernation, but everything was still locked up, only this time I had access to ctrl alt delete.

    I took a chance and located Dr Watson.exe, stopping it through the task manager.
    No problems since, but I have a paranoid fear that the laptop is running a small bit slower.
    I have since ran AVG and spybot, both are clear, will shortly run adaware.
    I have also run CCcleaner.

    Should I be worried about this Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger, I believe it is part of windows XP, but also could be in some way linked to a trojan infection. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Irishgardener.


Comments

  • #2
    ActorSeeksJob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭ActorSeeksJob


    nothing to worry about. Dr.Watson is some microsoft thing that pops up when some errors happen. really dont know the specifics but im 100% sure it's safe.


  • #3
    Irish Gardener
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Irish Gardener


    Thanks for that.
    I've had no issues with it since that night.
    Thanks again.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    This appears to be a bug in the Dr Watson tool in SP2. It causes a buffer overflow which is trapped by the Windows DEP software. I'm not aware of any fix unfortunately.


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