DSO Exploit

[49erinnc]

Got a NASTY piece of spyware that I can't get rid of. I have run my virus scans and found nothing. I have run the latest editions of AdAware and SpyBot. SpyBot is telling me everytime that it found "DSO Exploit" but even though it checks it off as fixed, the problems still and exists and it shows back up if I run another scan.

It hijacked my homepage at first but now I can't even access one single site via IE (I'm on Firefox right now posting this). No matter what site I try to go to on IE, I get the following:

You cannot access this site due to following reason:
Your computer was infected by Spyware or Adware Software.
This is dangerous software which disclose your personal
and transferred data and/or display unsolices advertising.
You can use this ADWARE/SPYWARE REMOVAL tools in
order to solve this problem and prevent futurer infection.


You can click Search to look for information on the Internet.


HTTP Error - Access Blocked


With the exception of formatting my HDD or using XP's "Last Good Configuration" option, is there a way to take care of this?

Running XP (SP1) and IE 6.0 (SP1)

 

[BlueWeasel]

Give BHODemon a try and see if that helps.

 

[49erinnc]

Just ran it and the problem still exists. :frown:

 

[royaldank]

Never seen the message you put up and my Spybot reported DSO exploit for a year or two before I finally got it removed. I searched google and finally found a page explaining how to get rid of it. I think it was a couple registry lines you need to delete b/c it just reloads itself each time you reboot.

 

[dunkster]

I believe DSO Exploit is a false positive - reported by several users of Spybot S&D. If you remove it, it will regenerate at next boot. DSO Exploit is not your problem. DSO Exploit should be set as an exclusion in scanning.

A good scanner for finding adware trojans is NoAdware. It found an adware trojan that several other scanners - including Spybot - couldn't find. It's scanner is also the fastest I've seen. Give it a try.

Hope this helps!

 

[biostud]

Install a firewall and try upgrade to sp2 (if you get IE to work )

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: 49erinnc
Got a NASTY piece of spyware that I can't get rid of. I have run my virus scans and found nothing. I have run the latest editions of AdAware and SpyBot. SpyBot is telling me everytime that it found "DSO Exploit" but even though it checks it off as fixed, the problems still and exists and it shows back up if I run another scan.

It hijacked my homepage at first but now I can't even access one single site via IE (I'm on Firefox right now posting this). No matter what site I try to go to on IE, I get the following:

You cannot access this site due to following reason:
Your computer was infected by Spyware or Adware Software.
This is dangerous software which disclose your personal
and transferred data and/or display unsolices advertising.
You can use this ADWARE/SPYWARE REMOVAL tools in
order to solve this problem and prevent futurer infection.


You can click Search to look for information on the Internet.


HTTP Error - Access Blocked


With the exception of formatting my HDD or using XP's "Last Good Configuration" option, is there a way to take care of this?

Running XP (SP1) and IE 6.0 (SP1)

As far as the DSO exploit, the only way I could clear them out was to expand the DSO menu, highlight and right click on the exploit itself.

Then you select a menu that says something like "take me to location" which then opens up the registry, and is supposed to take you right to the reg key so you can delete it. I had to select that a couple times for each entry before it would find the exact location...just make sure of the path before you delete anything in the registry...

hope this helps


Leeland

 

[Gurck]

DSO exploit is harmless as long as you're up to date on windows patches. That Spybot doesn't remove it is a bug with Spybot. Here's a link detailing manual removal instructions if you want to get rid of it anyway, but don't expect it to help with your problem. For that, check out Schadenfroh's guide on removing malware, it's stickied at the top of this forum.