Microsoft KB Archive/142654

= Winsock Memory Access Violation in Ws2help.dll Or Msafd.dll =

Article ID: 142654

Article Last Modified on 8/8/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition

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This article was previously published under Q142654





SYMPTOMS
On your Proxy server, a pop-up message appears stating a memory access violation occured in one of the winsock *.DLL files, most likely Ws2help.dll or Msafd.dll. In some cases this can cause heap corruption and provoke an access violation in some other *.DLL files. This problem is much more common on a multi-processor than a single-processor computer.



RESOLUTION
Obtain the fix mentioned below or wait for the next Service Pack.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

SERVPACK

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: KB142654

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