Explorer error and advvare popups

[hboyd]

Help!! I'm trying to fix my buddy's Win98 machine.

After booting up I get a message with Eplorer in the title bar, the message reads The progam has erformed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If I click on the details it reveals that EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module PRPNDI.DLL at 0167:10017d00.
If I click CLOSE then I loose my desktop and then if I press Cntl-Alt-Del it displays that the following are still running: rundll32, lexpps, msgloop, msg32.

Also, as long as I don't close the error message I can work around it with all the other programs.

I have reloaded Win98 and downloaded all the critical updates... however, there are 4 that will not load.... 2 are 98 updates and 2 are IE6 updates.... I assume they will not load because of the Open Explorer error.

Finally, there is also some adware that keeps popping up...even if I don't open IE.

I was able to get rid of the 18 viruses and clean up the 98 infected files as determined by Trend Micro's Online scanner.

I think I am close... any help will be appreciated as always.

Thanks!

 

[TSSTechie]

Howdy,

Try these two prgrams.

Adaware SE (

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022-10308605.html?tag=lst-0-1)

and

Spybot Search and Destroy (

http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-2)

I would suggest running both as neither one will detect every single bit of Spyware out there but between them they do a pretty good job of cleaning up.

Hope this helps

TSSTechie

May The Force Be With You

 

[hboyd]

Thanks... I'll give them a try. I did use hijackthis and cleaned up some of the problems but not all. Do you think the spyware is related to the Explorer problem or are they seperate issues?

Thanks!

 

[micker377]

Also try "CWShredder". It is designed to clean-up Internet Explorer.