re: Exploit on my computer?
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 7:27 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mistergil
(915 messages posted)
This is a trojan that causes Internet Explorer to display one location in the Address
bar, but actually load the content from a different site. Such URL spoofing can
result in attackers creating forged versions of legitimate sites in order to steal
account information, personal information, etc. You should be running a good AV program,
Spybot, Adaware, Spyware Guard and some kind of firewall ( I like Outpost, but there
are many). This virus generally does not cause system changes and is considered a
"low" threat. Your reformat data is confusing. Did you reinstall ME as well? Are
there other partitions? etc.
On Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 7:25 pm, Alanna wrote:
>I've been having a problem with OE and I also had the Exploit virus and i posted
>about 2 weeks ago and you told me what to do only it the tool you described wasn't
>there. I couldn't find any repair tool for OE on my computer so I just ended up
>reformatting my c-drive. I thought it would fix the problem. Well my computer
was
>still freezing up on me and i still couldn't get OE so I reformatted again today
>and I got this message after i restarted....''Environment variables were found in
>the legacy files Autoexec.BAT and/or Config.system and the variables were moved
to
>the Windows Registry''. When i ran spybot it found a DSO Exploit problem on my
computer.
> Also I found in my cookies a database file that I can't delete from my computer
>and I think it's related to the that message I got. How can i get rid of it? And
>how can i make sure my registry key files don't have Exploit? I don't quite understand
>what the Exploit virus is all about and I'm afraid that I have it on my computer
>even though Spybot supposedly fixed it.
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- Exploit on my computer? (Alanna: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 7:25 pm)
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