Help for DSO Exploit

[Gesslar]

hmm, i saw reports all over the net that Spybot didn't fix the problem. But maybe that is no longer the case. Worth a try.

[Minraed]

There has been alot of talk about this one on www.majorgeeks.com so we've been following that for some insight. I'll check out the techguy.org site too.

Seems it's got alot of people freaked out. Even read about it in the Globe and Mail national newspaper here. Maybe something will come up soon to fix it. In the meantime I'm trying everything just in case.

Thanks again for your suggestions. Most of these things work fine for a normal little invasion of spyware, this one just seems more ellusive.

anyway....

[Lebeau]

Yeah, this one hit me too. I tried Ad-Aware repeatedly and it would find and isolate the problem, but it would re-download as soon as I got on IE... seems to me the problem is rooted in IE itself. Fortunately for me, it hit me just hours after I formatted and reinstalled already, so wiping my drive was nothing to me at that point. Shortly after, I redownloaded my AV and firewall, which had been turned off before the wipe. That person is banned from my computer.
I know that's really no help to you, but it does work even if it is a last resort. I hope you are more successful than I was.



By the way I would have come here for help in my original problem, but the problem was that I couldn't get Windows to come on. That pretty much made my computer a very big paperweight or foot prop. Anyway, all I lost was easily replaceable programs and irreplaceable movies and music.