Symptom

When using Ad-Aware on Windows ME / 98, Ad-Aware.exe may crash with the error message "Exception EReadError in Modul in Ad-Aware.exe bei 00021F0B"

Cause

This error is most likely caused by a missing or old version of Richedit on your system.

Solution

Richedit dll files need to be installed on the system

The richedit dll files (riched20.dll & riched32.dll) can be downloaded from

Richedit20.dll

Richedit32.dll

The files should be unzipped and placed in the c:\windows\system32 directory