I have installed Avast, and reinstalled Avast. I get an error 10106 4 times. One for smtp, one for news, one for pop3, etc. I cannot get to go away, and I use webmail anyways. How do I stop error from popping up 4 times on startup?
Have (or did) you have another AV installed in this system, if so what and how did you get rid of it ?
Check this List of avast! Error Codes for the meaning of the code, it may point to the problem. Useful referrence for the future.
However the 10106 error code appears to be a windows code, 10106 = ‘The requested service provider could not be loaded or initialized.’
This may point to my first comment, you could also try a repair of avast. Add Remove programs, select ‘avast! Anti-Virus,’ click the Change/Remove button and scroll down to Repair, click next and follow. You need to be on-line to do this.
Hi,
I had the same error after install Avast. They said to uninstall Avast, but it didn’t work. I see in one site were they said to download it:
WinSock XP Fix (offers a last resort if your Internet connectivity has been corrupted due to invalid or removed registry entries. It can often cure the problem of lost connections after the removal of …)
The site is:
http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/WinSock_XP_Fix/WinSock_XP_Fix.html
It worked after I opened my internet conetion and put my IP address on properties.
I hope it works for you. I see that many people have the same problem.
Ma Shih
I doubt that this is the issue here as there is no mention of not being able to connect to the internet just the errors.
I am getting the four error 10106 messages now too!
I have avast 4 installed. Since Sept o6, 2006 I have not been able to access the internet. Initiallly avast reported a dll virus [adw] in a system restore folder.
I turned off Restore, ran avast, it deleted the found virus, but I cannot connect to the internet.
I checked all cables and power.
I have run a boot scan and complete thorough scan. No viruses found.
I disabled ZoneAlarm firewall program. No help.
I have cybersitter installed . . . I have not tried suspending that . . . is it a likely cause?
Eager to get on the 'net again.
Help please!
ps: HOW did I get this virus anyway . . . I thought that was the purpose of avast?
Jim
Maybe… WebShield could interfere on connection as it works like a proxy scanner, between the internet and your browser.
Can you see if this link could help you on understanding webshield working? http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=1647.msg100190#msg100190
FAQ about WebShield
http://avast.com/eng/faq-home-webshield.html
http://www.avast.com/eng/webshield_issues.html#idt_6874
Well… not a product is perfect.
avast is only an antivirus and you’ll have to have protection for other invasions (firewall, antispyware, etc.).
Can you post a screenshot of the error message, please?
Thank you.
As it turns out, the problem IS in fact with last week’s avast update.
A second computer got burnt the next day here, and both were running avast.
Here’s what we have determined:
Last weeks’s update of avast is telling avast to identify a dll from a popular web-filter as malware. The deletion, modifying, or quarantining of this dll will cause at best internet access denial, at worst the need to re-format (re-installing Windows did not work on either of our 2 machines affected).
My problems began within minutes after last week’s avast update.
The web-filtering application is called “Cybersitter” by Solid Oak.
The dll that is being wrongfully identified as malware is lspcs.dll.
I am not re-installing avast, until I am sure alwil has addressed the issue.
Please post this on other blogs where users may have CyberSitter installed.
Cyber Sitter is a terrific filtering program for protecting my kids, and I prefer to look for another anti-virus application rather than ditching Cyber Sitter.
Jim Macdonald
Yes 
There were some other threads related to this false positive indeed…
They should address this problem indeed…
At least, did you test the Exclusions lists? because you’ll be without an antivirus meanwhile…
Fully agree…
Just that there are other options to CyberSitter: the free K9 is very very good (www.k9webprotection.com). Other freeware is Naomi (www.radiance.m6.net). 8)
A search of these forums for lspcs.dll Cybersitter will no doubt return many hits as this topic has been previously discussed a number of times. This has been detected as a false positive and we are waiting on it being corrected so you need restore it from the chest and to add it to the exclusions. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=23404.0 So no need to ditch anything.
Add it to the exclusions lists (Standard Shield, Customize, Advanced and Program Settings, Exclusions) and periodically check it (scan it in the chest), there should still be a copy in the chest even though you restored it to the original location. When it is no longer detected then you can also remove it from the Standard Shield and Program Settings, exclusions.
Thanks, David.
Good preventive maintenance advice.
Unfortunately, we’d didn’t see this one coming, and the ensuing conflict on the one machine resulted in auto-shut down after Windows loaded, and we could not get into avast to add it to the exclusion list.
The other machine fared a bit better, we could boot normally into Windows and run applications, but could not access the internet (to look for solutions or report the problem).
I also sent a heads up to Cyber Sitter support, it’d be nice if either or both vendors would send a head up broadcast to their clients. Re-formating was the pits.
Perhaps in an imperfect world I dream too much.
Jim
Glad that you have it resolved now, welcome to the forums.
I assume that you are talking about DropMyRights and yes an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of treatment, very useful in damage limitation.