Control Panel Error

[eurotrance4life]

Whenever I close Control Panel on Windows 98SE, it performs an illegal operation and I get the following error message:

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:10002440.
Registers:
EAX=000025b7 CS=016f EIP=10002440 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=0080fe4c SS=0177 ESP=0080fdf4 EBP=0080fe30
ECX=c1539160 DS=0177 ESI=00008e8c FS=25d7
EDX=00019ce4 ES=0177 EDI=00800000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:

Stack dump:
bff72317 00000000 00000113 00000082 000368d0 310f8e50 ff14310f 8eac8eb8 00030007 10002440 01577678 0080ffbc bff7186d 000025b7 00800000 0080fe7e

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

 

[mikecel79]

Do have any plug-ins that add toolbars to explorer? I've seen toolbars like hotbar cause problems like this.

 

[Psych]

I'm inclined to say SPYWARE. I used to have a terrible problem with IE in which it wouldn't start up at all, and that was because of some very badly programmed malware.

 

[eurotrance4life]

nope, didn't add any toolbars

I just ran a scan with ad-aware and it found some cookies which i deleted, but the problem still persists