EXPLORER crashing for no reason......

po0k

Meself and PHB have talk brieflty about this on #fortress.ie , but here goes......
My spec:
P3 800,
Creative Gf1 SDR,
SBLive! 1024 + liveware3
(surround mixer doesn't work at all - failed to load plugins),
Lucent 1646 DSp modem + 5.87 drivers(Winmodem for all intents and purposes),
Win98SE,
Internet Explorer 5.0,
ICQ 2000b,
Getright 4.3, SBLive! bloatware running in background too.
Every so often this happens:
Explorer, this program has performed an illegel operatiojn yadda yadda yadda....
and the Details shows this sh|te:
EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module WSOCK32.DLL at 0167:75fac4ce.
Registers:
EAX=000001c0 CS=0167 EIP=75fac4ce EFLGS=00010287
EBX=00000154 SS=016f ESP=0220fd27 EBP=75faa000
ECX=01830910 DS=016f ESI=02210000 FS=2e1f
EDX=bffc9490 ES=016f EDI=0220fd27 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ac 2c 40 75 fb b8 73 6d 74 70 ab 34 5d aa e8 dc
Stack dump:
bffc9490 bff7b796 bffc9490 00000154 0220fd4f bff7b828 816f6320 00000154 001fffff 00000000 0220fda7 bff741f7 bffc9490 bffa6325 bffc9490 00000154

If anyone has ever experienced this boll0xing on before, or has fixed it please reply..thanks.
its been going on for bout 8 months now
and i'm well p|ssed off.

ConUladh

There's a new enough virus going around that overwrites wsock32.dll (Snow White and the seven dwarves ring any bells), might be worth making sure you're anti-virus is up to date

http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum3/HTML/002145.html

Mentioned in the above link, at the very least might be worth replacing the dll as described

BNC

Here is a paste from the current Microsoft Technet CD.. Looks like you have a virus

Indications of Virus Infection from the W32/KRIZ Viruses

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

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SYMPTOMS
You may receive an error message related to the Krized.tt6 file. The error message may look similar to any of the following error messages:

waol caused an invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll
-or-
vsmon caused an invalid page fault in module wsock32.dll
-or-
explorer caused an invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll
-or-
explorer caused an invalid page fault in module wsock32.dll
-or-
program caused an invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll
-or-
program caused an invalid page fault in module wsock32.dll
You may also experience slow performance when you try to browse network shares.

CAUSE
This behavior can occur if your computer is infected by a variation of the W32/KRIZ virus. Variations of the W32/KRIZ virus include the W32/KRIZ.3862 and W32/KRIZ.4092 variations.

PHB

What if you still have the same problem after 2 formats and a new HD?

richindub2

I had that virus thingy but i formatted on wednesday and its grand now

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*cough*
daves l33t site 0wns j00.

Stephen

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by PHB:
What if you still have the same problem after 2 formats and a new HD?</font>

Your backups (if any) might be infected with the virus?

po0k

I have 3 partitions on my 3oGB hdd. I use two small 5G to back stuff up. It is very possible that it is that snow white virus, as I got it before. I don't havea virus scanner yet, though now I think I'll invest in one. They kinda stop me from mucking about in DOS, which is bad, cos I have a good few old DOS games.
just on that note, has anyone gotten their SBLive!'s SB16 emulation to work in DOS? If so, how and what settings did u use?
Thanks lads, I had forgotten about that virus allright.