Ashsimpl invalid page faults

I have Win98 and installed Home Edition Avast 4. Resident checking works fine. But I have a problem with Ashsimpl.exe causing invalid page fault when I try to open Scanner. If I leave the Error Dialog shown, I can still use Avast without crashing but closing the Error Dialog kill Avast.

This also happens after scanning Hard Drive, but does not occur after scanning Floppies ::slight_smile:

If I don’t get the Error Dialog when I start the scanner, I will get it if I scan a Hard Disk - so sometimes it starts O.K. (no error) but always shows after scanning (successfully) a Hard Disk.

Any thoughts and help appreciated :wink:

Here’s the Error:

ASHSIMPL caused an invalid page fault in
module at 0000:1b10ec7d.
Registers:
EAX=0283ff88 CS=0167 EIP=1b10ec7d EFLGS=00010246
EBX=0283ff88 SS=016f ESP=02740104 EBP=02740124
ECX=027401a8 DS=016f ESI=81762038 FS=5267
EDX=bff76859 ES=016f EDI=027401d0 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:

Stack dump:
bff7684d 027401d0 0283ff88 027401ec 027401a8 027402dc bff76859 0283ff88 027401b8 bff87fc0 027401d0 0283ff88 027401ec 027401a8 1b10ec7d 02740394

Please try my advice given in this thread: http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=440;start=0

Hope this helps,
Vlk

Thank you very much, Vlk, for your fast response (only about 1 hour - excellent!). I tried your “trick” and it stops Ashsimpl from Invalid Page Faulting - BRILLIANT 8)

Unfortunately the “trick” stops Avast from scanning “Selected Folders”. By that I mean that Avast always scans my Hard Drive beginning at the C: drive and continuing to my last partition (G: drive).

However, I will continue to fiddle with it because your “trick” made such an impact. I will try and find out what ODBC has to do with the problem (it is early morning here and I am zonked ;D )

I also tried to narrow down the fault a bit - test results are below. I will narrow it down to be more specific (exe, dll, txt, etc.) - later :wink:

Thanks again Vlk! Your help was inspirational :slight_smile:

Settings: Resident Scan OFF, QuickScan, Selected Folders.

(Fail = Invalid Page Fault, Pass = No problems)

Files-Fold–Size-----Result
189—44—30.7mb-FAIL
189—47—22.0mb-FAIL
168—41—18.5mb-PASS
334—281–9.10mb-PASS (mainly C-Source)
128—20—22.1mb-PASS