Microsoft KB Archive/166727

= McAfee NetShield or VirusScan May Cause Hangs with SP3 =

Article ID: 166727

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3

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This article was previously published under Q166727



SYMPTOMS
You may experience STOP 0x0000001E, STOP 0x0000000A bugchecks, lockups, or other random buchecks when you run McAfee NetShield or VirusScan on Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3.



CAUSE
These problems occur when the filter driver (Mcfilter.sys) from these McAfee applications corrupts memory within Windows NT kernel's address space.



RESOLUTION
This problem is fixed in McAfee version 3.02 and later. Please contact McAfee Technical support for the updated version.



MORE INFORMATION
For information about similar issues, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: 178413

TITLE : Windows NT System May Hang When Running a Filter Driver

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Additional query words: 4.00 sp3 prodnt

Keywords: kb3rdparty kbenv kbinfo KB166727

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