{"id":383,"date":"2009-01-08T13:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/08\/internet-explorer-crashes-on-opening-entapidll\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T13:44:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T13:44:02","slug":"internet-explorer-crashes-on-opening-entapidll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/08\/internet-explorer-crashes-on-opening-entapidll\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer Crashes on Opening – EntAPI.dll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busy, busy busy on the first week back!<\/p>\n

Got a call today from someone who was having problems opening Internet Explorer<\/p>\n

Each time he\u2019d get an application fault<\/p>\n

My first thought down to previous experience was that it was an add-on trying to load I so ran IE in \u201cno add-ons\u201d mode. IE opened fine so I spent a little while disabling lots off add-ins with little success so I went back to the beginning and looked in the event log for the actual error (should have just done this first!)<\/p>\n

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Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 7.0.6000.16762, faulting module entapi.dll, version 8.0.0.240, fault address 0x0000368a.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I found the entapi.dll file in the windows\\system32 folder and the file properties suggested it was a McAfee component<\/p>\n

A quick search turned up lots of people with similar problems who \u201cresolved\u201d the issue by simply renaming the file<\/p>\n

I renamed the file and as reported this stopped Internet Explorer crashing<\/p>\n

Not a complete fix in my book though as this means all I’d done was stop a component of the anti-virus software from loading!<\/p>\n

Since it was a McAfee component I went to their knowledge base<\/a> and did I search on entapi.dll hoping to find out a little more about what it does and the very first entry was this<\/p>\n

Internet Explorer crashes in a Buffer Overflow module (KB57756)<\/a><\/p>\n

entapi.dll is part of the buffer overflow module? Glad I wanted to dig a bit deeper \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The article says that it\u2019s a know issue with version 8.0.0.240 and updating to one of the following will fix it;<\/p>\n

VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i cumulative Patch 14. or upgrade to VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i\/8.7<\/em><\/p>\n

This particular PC had 8.0i on so I loaded the latest patch (which was 16) and this fixed the problem<\/p>\n

I checked the properties of the old and new entapi.dll files and we\u2019d jumped from version 8.0.0.240 to 8.0.0.455<\/p>\n

Sorted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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