Strange crashings

[gemfyre]

When I went to the trade board on the TP, explorer would crash, taking the active desktop and most of the systray with it *grr*.

I rebooted but it's still doing it.

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module URLMON.DLL at 017f:1a40a446.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=1a40a446 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=041aea7c EBP=041aea9c
ECX=1a4057bc DS=0187 ESI=043f6020 FS=742f
EDX=0043002c ES=0187 EDI=00000001 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 57 ff 74 24 10 50 ff 51 18 6a 00 8b ce 8b
Stack dump:
043f5e8c 1a40a3db 043f6020 00000000 637e6bac 00000000 0453804c 00000000 041aeacc 636059ab 00000001 00000000 04538138 0453804c 00000000 043f5eac

Anyone know what that means in english??

Comments

[ant8472.livejournal.com]

Probably a virus of some sort considering you have also reported other irregularities about your system recently.

To state the obvious, Run a virus checker. I don't know much really, but apparently there is some sort of virus going around called the bugbear virus. It could be? *shrugs*

Re:

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I have Norton always running in the background
I often run virus checks manually - especially when my puter does weird shit
I never open sus e-mails

So how I get viruses (if that's what it is I have no idea)

[mordant.livejournal.com]

I doubt it's a virus.

It sounds like whatever program that URLMON.DLL runs is corrupt, deleted, spent, stomped or charred, and is having a pissing contest with windows over memory.

try finding what program uses URLMON.DLL and reinstalling it.

failing that, return to the primordial seas from which you came - computers suck.

[dazarusaurus.livejournal.com]

It could be a virus, it it could simply be a problem in IE. What version do you have installed? Try upgrading it to the latest (at least version 6). I'm sure you can find it on a coverCD of a magazine or something.

Re:

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I have IE6

It seems that the problem is anything Microsoft.

But no, I'm not going to change to linux or unix for reasons that Matt has already explained.

[mordant.livejournal.com]

Also very sound advice.