Spotfire Analyst Client crashes due to LavasoftTcpService64.dll

Created
October 08, 2021 23:26

Date Posted: 2018-05-21
Product: TIBCO Spotfire®

Problem:

Solution:

Spotfire Analyst Client crashes due to faulty Lavasoft's Web Companion dll "C:\Windows\System32\LavasoftTcpService64.dll" . The following error can be reported in the Windows Event viewer.
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Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\TIBCO\Spotfire\7.6.0\Spotfire.Dxp.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\LavasoftTcpService64.dll
Report Id: a5d5f403-9a88-11e6-8295-5cb9010637b7
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OR

If you captured a Spotfire crash dump, you will find the exception for DLL C:\Windows\System32\LavasoftTcpService64.dll in the dump. This is generally caused due to a faulty third party DLL. This faulty DLL LavasoftTcpService64.dll is from third party software Lavasoft's Web Companion. To resolve this you need to either disable Lavasoft Software or delete LavasoftTcpService64.dll from the Spotfire client machine.