Please help, I am wondering what this is: Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger

[justin1224]

Hello everyone, long time no problems!

I have had Firefox shut off unexpectedly on me several times and each time it has said Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger and asked if I wanted to send the error??? Have you guys heard of this before???? Just want to ask the pros what they thought. Thanks

[Thomas]

Hello justin1224,

When a program does something that violates certain system rules, part of the "crash" that occurs when it is shut down is Windows runs an analysis of what just occurred and generates a report from that. This analysis/report is done through running Dr. Watson (you will see drwtsn32.exe as a running process after). Have you resolved whatever was causing the Firefox shutdowns? Often this is some conflict with a third party software, like some recent install.

[justin1224]

Yes i recently installed an update to a game. Thank you for the response! I was simply wondering what it could be and if it was malicious.

[Thomas]

Glad to provide the info.