Yahoo! messenger problems

[xfiles_guy]

I get a message that Yahoo! messenger has encountered some problems and has to be shut down (standard ms crap!!!) as soon as I try to start it. I looked in the system information and found that windows reports the crashes as due to faulting module icm32.dll version 5.1.2600.2180 followed by some fault address (which is same every time). Messenger used to work fine on my system till about 2 days ago. I don't have any idea why it won't work now. Infact, this happened once before, but then messenger started working again for a day and then back to this. I'm using AMD Athlon 64 bit 2800+ with a Gigabyte K8 motherboard. Can some one help me out please???

[bst82551]

Well, i found a page that gives a brief explanation of what this driver is and what it does.

http://www.liutilities.com/products/...library/icm32/

but umm, it sounds like maybe you should check for viruses maybe. if there's no virus or any kind of malware on your computer, you could probably find the driver online somewhere and just replace the messed up one with the new one.

Brian

[xfiles_guy]

Thanks dude...I had tried searching for spyware and stuff but had not scanned for viruses. I found that my system was infested with W32/Pica
Now it seems to work fine.

Originally Posted by bst82551

Well, i found a page that gives a brief explanation of what this driver is and what it does.

http://www.liutilities.com/products/...library/icm32/

but umm, it sounds like maybe you should check for viruses maybe. if there's no virus or any kind of malware on your computer, you could probably find the driver online somewhere and just replace the messed up one with the new one.

Brian

[y2krinku]

Here is what u do to resolve this icm error while launchin yahoo: go to www.dll-files.com download icm32.dll file (it will be an older version from the one you have in the system 32 folder but thats not a problem). Paste this file in C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger folder. This should take care of it. Deleting the icm32 file from root\windows\system32 does not help because windows will generate a new icm32 file within seconds. If you launch yahoo within that period, it will open up but then the above solution is permanent.