why do i get a message saying slplugin has stopped and windows is searching plz help

[SassyWoman]

i keep getting pop ups saying slplugin has stopped and i can choose an option as to close or have windows search so ofc i choose windows to search plz help and ty in advance

 

[Nalates Urriah]

This is a problem that is usually caused by your anti-virus program. The slplugin does things that are similar to what viruses do. So, ignorant AV programs often give it a false positive and quarantine it.

Turn your AV off for a few minutes and reinstall your viewer over the top of the existing install. Then before your AV restarts try launching the viewer. Hopefully all is well.

You may need to whitelist the viewer's  install folder or list it as an exception to make your AV leave the file alone. You can also list your viewer's cache folder as an exception to improve performance. These are safe steps as all uploads to SL are scanned for file format and content. It is way unlikely a virus will make it through and get into the SL assets. That doesn't mean there are not any griefer tools, scripts, or objects that aren't dangerous. But, your AV isn't going to detect those, so... may as well not bother.

 

[Whirly Fizzle]

Do you happen to be using Windows Vista?

There is a known problem with slplugin constantly crashing on Vista systems on CEF enabled viewers.