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spyware & DSO EXPLOIT REMOVAL

Jun 25, 2004 12:55AM PDT

HELLO I HAVING PROBLEM REMOVING DSO EXPLOIT SPYWARE FROM MY COMPUTER. I TRY SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY PROGRAM BUT WITH NO PREVAIL.CAN YOU HELP ME SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.I WANT TO CLEAN MY COMPUTER COMPLETELY.I EVEN TRY REMOVING OLD FILES AND XP AND INSTALLING NEW XP PROGRAM FRESH.WHEN I DID A SPYBOT AND ADWARE RUN THE DSO EXPLOIT CAME RIGHT UP AGAIN. IT SEEM TO BE INSTALLED IN THE REGISTRY AND I DO'NT KNOW HOW TO REMOVE IT.MY COMPUTER IS XPHOME EDITION AND I HAVE 40GB HARD,2.40GHZ AND 256RAM:ALSO WHEN I RUN A SYSTEM CHECK I FIND THAT I ONLY HAVE 224RAM.EVEN WHEN I DO ALL ABOVE IT STILL SHOW 224RAM.PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS PROBLEM.ERIC BROWN BRO7431@AOL.COM

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Re: spyware & DSO EXPLOIT REMOVAL
Jun 25, 2004 3:10AM PDT

Ad-aware should remove this just fine. Perhaps you are getting it again from some website you go to.
Here's a few steps that could help you out, and some suggestions too.
Close IE first of all.
Clean out your cookies and recent files and stuff like that. Run ad-aware or whatever program you wish to remove the spyware, it should have an option to remove them after you have scanned your hard drive. Do so.
After this, get a filtering program, such as ad-muncher (my personal favorite) that will filter out bad cookies and the likes, spyware adware whatever. I believe ad-aware comes with such a program... called ad-watch? Try enabling that. You might want to run a virus scanning program too, be sure to update the definitions! I think there is a trial version of ad muncher available. Don't know though. Try http://www.download.com
If you wan't to take it to the extreme, you could also try using a new browser, as in, NOT Internet explorer. My preferrence is Opera. But you could try a free one like Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox) i think. These will help filter spyware...

It may be a program you have installed though. In which case, to help you further we would need to know the registry key that the scanner says is spyware.

Also, please stop typing in caps. Happy Don't know if you know this but on the internet it often signifies yelling.

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DSO EXPLOIT in spybotS&D is a "bug" !
Jun 25, 2004 4:06AM PDT
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Re: spyware & DSO EXPLOIT REMOVAL
Jun 25, 2004 4:47AM PDT

please fix your keyboard the capitals are stuck

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Re: spyware & DSO EXPLOIT REMOVAL
Jun 26, 2004 2:10PM PDT

hey i had the same problem with this! spybot would find it but not delete it. you have to go into the registry and delete it manually once i did that it work just fine. hope that helps

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Re: spyware & DSO EXPLOIT REMOVAL
Jun 28, 2004 3:18AM PDT
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Re: spyware & DSO EXPLOIT REMOVAL
Aug 10, 2004 11:26AM PDT

I am having the same problem!
But first of all, I would like to say I am mad at CNet because the tried to put spyware on my pc when i clicked reply! Good thing I have Spybot!
Well, the problem is that I have the DSO exploit and can't get rid of it. Please e-mail me at javascript_wrter_4@earthlink.net. Put the subject as DSO exploit info and don't put an attachment, as I won't open it if it has one.