SVCHOST.EXE - APPLICATION ERROR

THE INSTRUCTION AT "0xe03d3a30" REFERENCED MEMORY
AT "0xe03d3a30." THE
MEMORY COULD NOT BE READ.

IT THEN ASKS ME TO TERMINATE THE PROGRAM OR TO DEBUG. IF
I DEBUG, THE NEXT
ERROR MESSAGE IS:

SVCHOST.EXE HAS GENERATED ERRORS AND WILL BE CLOSED BY
WINDOWS.

WHEN I GET THIS ERROR ONCE, I AM UNABLE TO COPY/PASTE ON
ANY SUBSEQUENT
ITEMS/DOCUMENTS UNLESS I RESTART THE COMPUTER

I seem to recall the Copy/Paste problem relates to a recent
security patch for the latest virus (worm) attack.

If nobody else jumps in here, and assuming Win XP or 2000,
repost your problem to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.
Or, perhaps faster, run a Google search on that newsgroup
(http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search) using
the words cut, paste, svchost, etc., and limiting the date
to the past 3 weeks.

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Martyn wrote:
>
> SVCHOST.EXE - APPLICATION ERROR
>
> THE INSTRUCTION AT "0xe03d3a30" REFERENCED MEMORY
> AT "0xe03d3a30." THE
> MEMORY COULD NOT BE READ.
>
> IT THEN ASKS ME TO TERMINATE THE PROGRAM OR TO DEBUG. IF
> I DEBUG, THE NEXT
> ERROR MESSAGE IS:
>
> SVCHOST.EXE HAS GENERATED ERRORS AND WILL BE CLOSED BY
> WINDOWS.
>
> WHEN I GET THIS ERROR ONCE, I AM UNABLE TO COPY/PASTE ON
> ANY SUBSEQUENT
> ITEMS/DOCUMENTS UNLESS I RESTART THE COMPUTER

This is a symptom of the Blaster worm. See
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

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"Martyn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:05b301c37071$89fed320$(E-Mail Removed)...
> SVCHOST.EXE - APPLICATION ERROR
>
> THE INSTRUCTION AT "0xe03d3a30" REFERENCED MEMORY
> AT "0xe03d3a30." THE
> MEMORY COULD NOT BE READ.
>
> IT THEN ASKS ME TO TERMINATE THE PROGRAM OR TO DEBUG. IF
> I DEBUG, THE NEXT
> ERROR MESSAGE IS:
>
> SVCHOST.EXE HAS GENERATED ERRORS AND WILL BE CLOSED BY
> WINDOWS.
>
> WHEN I GET THIS ERROR ONCE, I AM UNABLE TO COPY/PASTE ON
> ANY SUBSEQUENT
> ITEMS/DOCUMENTS UNLESS I RESTART THE COMPUTER