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Fatal Exception...VxD MCSCAN32(01)

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by dkstanford

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I have a Dell OptiPlex with 233 Mhz PII running Win95B. I just upgraded my McAfee virus scan engine to 4.5 and downloadwd the latest .dat files. Since then, I've been getting the following blue screen and message during bootup-(Fatal Exception OE has occured at 0028:C4DC58AF in VxD MCSCAN32(01) + 000278A3. press any key to continue.) I disabled the virus scan and re booted and the same thing happens. I tried to remove the entire McAfee program but it won't let me, claiming that dScanDef.mmf andSync_map.mmf are in use by another application. I closed all programs except explorer and tried again with the same results.

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by salochin

Hi, sorry to hear about your situation.

I have been in the same situation myself. McAfee know about various issues with Win 9x and VirusScan 4.5 and have released a patch to 'fix' the problems. From my experience this doesn't happen. There is a timing issue with 4.5, especially when using Outlook Express, which means that the Antivirus scanner takes longer than necessary to complete its job and falls over.

The only way I have managed to resolve the issue on the sites that I have installedon is, when installing in Win 9x use 4.0.3 and for Win 2000 or Win NT use 4.5 or 4.5.1

Hope that helps

by trippin

go to safemode and unisntall the McAfee . and remove all the mcafee in the registry. and reboot again.

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