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re: Exploit on my computer?
Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 6:06 am
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Posted by relsec (1 messages posted)


DSO Exploit If this is a problem that is only showing up in spybot search and destroy, after you have run spybot to rid your computer of it, then you haven't got a problem and can be ignored.


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.


Written in response to:
Exploit on my computer? (Alanna: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 7:25 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Exploit on my computer? (Alanna: Tue, Jan 27, 2004, 7:25 pm)
-re: Exploit on my computer? (mistergil: Wed, Jan 28, 2004, 7:27 pm)
-re: Exploit on my computer? (Alanna: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 12:22 pm)
-re: Exploit on my computer? (mistergil: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 3:38 pm)
-re: Exploit on my computer? (mistergil: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 3:56 pm)
-re: Exploit on my computer? (Alanna: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 6:37 pm)
*re: Exploit on my computer? (mistergil: Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 11:52 am)
-re: Exploit on my computer? (Koolwasser: Mon, Feb 14, 2005, 5:35 am)
*re: Exploit on my computer? (Helzy: Tue, Feb 15, 2005, 3:09 pm)
*re: Exploit on my computer? (relsec: Wed, Dec 15, 2004, 6:06 am)
*re: Exploit on my computer? (brian: Wed, Jan 19, 2005, 10:42 am)
*re: Exploit on my computer? (Sniper167: Sat, Mar 12, 2005, 9:12 pm)
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