Re: Memory Read Error.


Hi Bubba,
Sophos big enough and reputable enough in the market to not do such a thing
(I'm defending them, simply because they are not offenders?).
Believe me, many times one Anti-virus can be compromised and Slaved? by
nasties and they will keep your system running because they are weeding you
and keep track of what you are doing?.

You can E-mail Sophos with your Findings and see their response, also, try
another reputable vendors like Symantec, Trend, McAfee, Panda, Avast, AVG, CA
and Kaspersky Online Scanner to be sure your Anti-Virus not infiltrated by a
malicious Code or Malware that sometimes cannot be detected by AVs!.
Did you tried Liveoncare?.

Download the Hijackthis and send the report to one of
many
forums for analysis and troubleshooting:
When all else fails, HijackThis v2.0.2
(http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/threat_analytics/hijackthis.php) is
the preferred tool to use.
It will help you to both identify and remove any hijackware/spyware. Post
your log to:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html,
http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial42.html

What the names of the infection founds by Sophos?.
HTH.
nass
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www.nasstec.co.uk

"Bubba" wrote:

WOW, lots of stuff.

So, to re-iterate - "My machine is (and always has been) clean". This is a
high end mutli-media development system and I make it a habit of checking
for "Nasties" three times a day.

The problem was (apparently) fixed with one of the MS updates I installed
the other day. I say apparently, because I know longer have problems. Now,
it may be coincedental that I downloaded and installed these updates
(perhaps in conjuction with the IE repair that I ran).

As for moving ram about - I don't see how after a year this would be an
issue. Being a 25 year MS and Systems Eng vet, I would have suspected this
if this were a relatively new system.

My system is Kaspersky Anti-Virus PRo, Ad-Aware Pro, Spybot scanned three
times daily (morning, noon, night kinda thing). They found nothing at all.
BTW: These are all licenced tools, so none of the "Free Ware Limited"
versions. I have a great deal of trust in these bad boys - I hope it doesn't
get misplaced.

I did run your suggested ON-Line scan (Sophos) and it reported 33 viruses
and malware items. My Kaspersy (which I use religously and recommend to my
clients) found nothing - at all. It has been my experience that "Free On
Line" scans will always find something, trick of the trade to sell their
products. Also, I have a tool that I wrote last year that will scan my hard
disks for ALL specified files (regardless of their attributes and/or
location such as System Restore directories) and when I ran this tool to
locate the 33 items that Sophos reported, it found nothing. I've sent an
email to those folks suggesting that their on-line scan may not work as
advertised along with my results of the hard disk search. Just a heads up
here.

I did find your links to be helpful (particularly the msdiag tool). I thank
you for those links and items and will keep them in my tool kit of
referrences.

Thanks Nass :) :) :)

"nass" <nass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Bubba" wrote:

When I hit certain web sites (no all), I get the infamous "unable to read
memory location xxxxxxxx, click OK to kill, cancel to debug etc.

I've ran a repair on IE6 (sfc /scannow) to no avail.

Nothing has been added or changed on this system.

The web sites that cause the error changes from time to time, so it
doesnt
appear to be a specific web site.

Does anyone have any ideas, I really don't want to go through the time to
install Firefox, but if necessary then that's the route I'll go.

Thanks.

Go through these cleaning steps to see or get a clear opinion on how
clean your machine is:
= Click Start >> Control Panel>>Network and Internet Connections >> Double
click Internet Options.
On the IE properties windows you will see these Tabs:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |
Advanced.
Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
[ ] Disable script Debugging (internet Explorer) <= check this box
[ ] Disable Script Debugging (Other) <= check this box

Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non
Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the
culprit and update it or remove it.
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256

2.... And also for malware from here:
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm

Run a scan from here on-line:
http://www.sophos.com
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=ie&venid=sym
Download Avast Cleaner from here:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html
Lots of tools to download and disinfect your machine:
http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/site/Downloads/browseFreeRemovalTool/
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5
=How to perform a clean boot procedure to prevent background programs from
interfering with a game or a program that you currently use
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796
Download the FileMon to see the Running Processes in realtime from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/filemon.mspx
Or Process Explorer :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Processesandthreadsutilities.mspx

You may have a bad RAM try to test your RAM by running Memory test by
downloading this tool and unzip it and make a floppy or CD/DVD and run it
on
Reboot.
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp.
You may need to reposition/reset the RAM sticks in their slots.
Open a Notepad, customize or minimize to the taskbar as you will need it
later for this step to copy the error message on it.
Open a run command and type in:
eventvwr.msc click [OK] you will get the Event viewer control Panel.
click on each of these:
Application
System
Security
Look in the right Pane/window for error message with red (X) or Yellow
exclamation mark /!\ , double click each one to get more info about the
causer.
On the Event error properties message you will see:
Up Arrow
Down arrow
Two pages
Click on the two pages to copy the error message then bring up the Notepad
you opened earlier and right click on the first line and select Paste from
the list, this will paste the error message on a Notepad.
Please don't duplicate the error message one of each kind will be
sufficient.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass
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www.nasstec.co.uk





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