It happened again :/
Anti-virus and firewall are disabled. Someone mentioned here that it happened to him also so I guess there is probably something wrong with bing source.
After 31 hours of scraping I have to close scrapebox in task manager again. I can not even check which keywords were done...
Well bing isn't going to cause something on your local pc to lockup. It could be that a url that is being harvested is being blocked as malicious or it could be that one of your programs doesn't like something else about data bing is sending back.
Its not scrapebox, if it were everyone of the tens of thousands of users using sbox would have the issue. If one other person has it, its safe to assume they have the same issue you do.
Its VERY important to note that disabling an anti virus and/or firewalls does NOTHING if the rule already exits. Its a failsafe of such programs. If a rule is created that blocks scrapebox or interferes and then you disable the anti-virus or firewall or both, the rule WILL still fire even with the programs disabled. Disabling them only prevents them from creating new rules.
So you would have to totally uninstall them in order to rule them out. That or you can just go into each one and scour thru the elements and make sure you delete any existing rules for scrapebox and add new rules that allow full access.
As a test you could restart your pc in safe mode with networking, verify that the internet works by loading web page like scrapebox.com. Then run scrapebox, does it happen? If not then its likely software on your pc and you just have to find it. Utorrent has been known to cause issues with sockets and other programs.
IF it still does it in safe mode (cause generally most 3rd part software will not launch in safe mode) then it could be in your network. So try white listing it in your your router or disable the router firewall as a test.
You can try shutting down all non essential programs like utorrent, skype, outlook, anything that runs and has anything to do with the internet or connects to it and then if it works start turning them back on one by one. Until you find the offending program.