Illegal Operation

[Guest]

I was reading the following article on Wikipedia.org

--Mersenne prime--

and encountered the following error :--

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
If the problem persists contct the program vendor.

Close/Ignore

When I click on details it displays the following:

IEXPLORE caused a general protection fault
in module <unknown> at 0000:0001a0ea.
Registers:
EAX=000000b3 CS=2077 EIP=0001a0ea EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=207f ESP=0000c918 EBP=0000c940
ECX=74006873 DS=207f ESI=0000c970 FS=63ae
EDX=00000020 ES=207f EDI=00000095 GS=1a97
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 0c 81 89 4d f4 23 c9 74 14 51 e8 26 58 00 00
Stack dump:
0000207f 0000c970 0000207f 0001f914 0009f184
00000000 0095b320 0009f1d8 00000000 00000096
0000cbd0 00016cd0 00000095 0000c970 00000001
0000207f

I use Windows 98(SE)
and
Internet Explorer Version:6.0.2600.0000IC

please help

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[PA Bear]

Check in at Windows Update to installed IE6 SP1 & reboot, then return to Windows Update to install all critical updates offered to you.

Post back if the problem(s) persist.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Errors where the module is "unknown" generally point to issues with
third-party software, most often these days malware/spyware.

Use Ad-Aware, Windows Defender and/or Spybot Search & Destroy to remove it.

Windows Defender (beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up
anything found breaks it -

Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windows http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME
http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-
http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip

More information here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/tshoot.html
http://spywarewarrior.com/sww-help.htm

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs.
Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
down the culprit.

Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256

If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case....
HijackThis direct download:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
parasite experts:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
Or the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html

Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
CWShredder direct download:
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

An alternate resource for all of this and more:
http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm

If no joy with all of the above:

Understanding and Troubleshooting Unrecoverable Errors (Faults) in Internet
Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276393/en-us