The problem was Aventail - I had to uninstall and reinstall it, as per
MS' Knowledgebase article.
danr_18.DeleteThis@yahoo.com (Daniel Rosenzweig) wrote in message news:<7d7dc078.0310240157.10b1af72.DeleteThis@posting.google.com>...
> I had a 3COM MHZ 3cXFE575BT which had a bent phone
> pin. So I 'installed' a smc8040tx. I used the latest drivers from
> SMC's website. SMC's diag software passes. Win98
> recognizes it as installed properly. ipconfig shows we have a
> valid IP from the router -- and refreshing IPs even works.
> BUT - and time a program tries to access the Internet, I get an
> Invalid Page fault! I then went back to the 3COM card -- now
> I get Invalid PAge Faults for that too!
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Email which I check is 123danielNzrSP.DeleteThis@netzero.net
>
> REMOVE the numbers and upper case letters from the email
> address.
> I've been getting tons of Virus emails, so I don't plan on posting
> from my regular account anymore.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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