DDHELP causing shutdowns (W98)

[Lori72]

What causes and how can I fix DDHELP from shutting down my internet connection? I get the following error message:
DDHELP caused a general protection fault
in module GDI.EXE at 0002:00000057.
Registers:
EAX=00920000 CS=0467 EIP=00000057 EFLGS=00000296
EBX=00000014 SS=5ad7 ESP=00008bb4 EBP=00008bc0
ECX=0000ffff DS=0000 ESI=0000000a FS=05cf
EDX=00ffffff ES=0000 EDI=00925022 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 07 66 23 c2 66 3b c7 74 52 83 c3 0a 49 75
Stack dump:
000090ac 05cf9056 163e0000 1c2f8bd2 0000045f 50220000 17cf0292 8be69056 00001b35 02925022 02929056 50220000 8bf00292 90561aeb 05cf166e 8b7e8c10
Thanks for any help provided.

[tom_keefer]

Ddhelp.exe can be related to spyware. If you don't have them installed, download and run Ad-aware and Spybot Search & Destroy.

Links: Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button>Ad-Aware</a>

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It can also be related to Active X controls, but check for spyware first.

<font color=purple>Tom</font color=purple>

ya'aa'tey

[Lori72]

Hi Tom,
SpyBot and AVG were useless in this case. I downloaded and ran Ad-Aware per your suggestion. It found over 300 possibles, mostly low risk, but I removed most of them anyway and, so far, things seem to be working okay.
You saved my bacon - again!! Thanks loads.
Lori