IE 6 keeps closing with sock5h32.dll error

[brianlisk]

This happens on a bunch of PC's at work using Windows NT and Novell. This was happening all the time in IE 5.0-5.5, but I could never find what was causing it. Now with IE 6, it gives me more information.

From event viewer:

The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Microsoft Internet Explorer ) could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s): iexplore.exe, 6.0.2800.1106, sock5h32.dll, 1.0.0.0, 0000eb72.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

 

[carrr]

Are you running Zona Alarm? If so, disable it temporarily and see if this persists.

 

[brianlisk]

I know we have firewalls, but not Zone Alarm. Thanks for the reply.

 

[oonal]

I had the same problem this morning.

After looking for some info on this I remembered that I installed a new modem and did not configured it for the RAS. After configuring it my Internet Explorer started to work.

I no more having that event id 1000 error in my event viewer.

I hope this helps...

 

[brianlisk]

Thanks for the replies. One more thing I can say... We are using AutoSocks here. I found out that this dll is in the AutoSocks folder. I tried replacing it with a known good dll, but there is still something not right with it.

 

[brianlisk]

Oh... Also it is Aventail AutoSocks 2.2s. Yes... 2.2... but the newer versions do not work with proprietary software we have here. Go figure.