"Illegal Operation" or "Application Error" Opening a Web Page

ID: Q185512

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows 95
Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.0, 4.01 for Windows NT 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you try to open a Web page with Internet Explorer, you may receive one of the following error messages in Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0:

Windows 95

   This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
   If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

If you click Details, one of the following messages may be displayed:

Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0137:bff798fb
Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module MSHTML.DLL at 015f:7bd735a3

Windows NT

   An Application error has occurred and an application error log is
   being generated.

   Iexplore.exe
   Exception: access violation (0xc0000005), Address: 0x70422e5d

CAUSE

This problem can occur if all of the following conditions exist:

The Embed Buffer Overrun security patch for Internet Explorer 4.0 or 4.01 is installed.
You open a Web page that includes an <Embed> tag with a TYPE attribute but not an SRC attribute.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, install Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1.

To work around this problem, contact the administrator of the Web site and ask to have the SRC attribute and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) added to the <Embed> tag on the Web page.

For information about the use of the <Embed> tag with Internet Explorer 4.0 and 4.01, visit the following Microsoft Web page:

www.microsoft.com/msdn/sdk/inetsdk/help/dhtml/references/objects/embed.htm

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and 4.01 for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.

MORE INFORMATION

Web authors use tags to define the layout and content of Web pages. Each tag is an element of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The <Embed> tag is a non-standard HTML tag used to embed documents of any type in an HTML document. You need to have a program that can view the data installed correctly on your computer. The <Embed> tag must appear inside the body of the HTML document.

Attributes provide additional information used by tags. The SRC attribute is a required attribute for the <Embed> tag and is used to refer to the URL of a data object embedded in the Web page. The TYPE attribute is not supported by Internet Explorer. It is used in conjunction with the <Embed> tag to specify a particular Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type. MIME is used to start a program through a browser.

Additional query words: close locks stops

Keywords          : kberrmsg msiew95 msient gpf ie4sp1 
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: March 18, 1999