error 00000026

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi all

I did a forum search for error 00000026, but didn’t really find anything to help me.

I checked avast log viewer and found this

2/9/2008 6:05:46 PM SYSTEM 1240 AAVM - scanning warning: x_AavmCheckFileDirectEx [UNI]: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\64RBQ051\1895672136_000633361985856938573[1].mct (C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\64RBQ051\1895672136_000633361985856938573[1].mct) returning error, 00000026.

I have no idea what the above is.

I am not the sharpest tool in the shed ::slight_smile:

Using winxp sp2 with all updates.

Cheers

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Well the windows error 26 = The specified disk or diskette cannot be accessed, which doesn’t seem to make much sense when related to a file.

So I can’t see why the file in the temp internet files folder would be inaccessible. The .mct file type is a MapCharT file, what exactly that is I don’t know exactly, but google seems to, http://www.google.com/search?q=.mct+file+type. Now if this is something like a google earth style map, perhaps it is protected so you can’t copy it, I don’t know. What I do know is I wouldn’t be unduly worried about it unless I was getting avast errors displayed on the screen and not just in the logs.

I don’t look in the logs unless I get a avast displayed error, much of what is in the logs is verbose and of more use to the programmers, so I tend to keep out of there for fear of frightening the horses ;D

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Hi DavidR

I wasn’t on the computer at the time, but am told he was playing an online-game.

Anyway i thought the error code was an avast, so in future i will check google.
So i am glad not to be concerned about it.

Thank you kindly for your assistance, very much appreciated.

Cheers

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I’m sorry, but is value of 00000026 hex or decimal? If hex (it’s looked like format %08X) that decimal error code will be 38
(ERROR_HANDLE_EOF 38 Reached the end of the file)
I can suppose that this error should be thrown when size of file is 0).

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I made an assumption (you know what they say about assumption ;D) based on the fact it is an avast AAVM scanning error that it was a file system error, so I just checked the windows error codes using a little program, MSWinErr.exe.

Since it is a temp internet file location even if it were 0 byte size it shouldn’t cause any real problem, though it would be nice to know exactly what the warning related to, if only the avast warning/error log info was more user friendly.