Hi All Not being a regular visitor to this particular section of comp.net for the reason of never being infected by anything. I find I have a strange object that keeps re-occuring when I run Spybot and it is thus: DSO Exploit There are 5 entries/reg changes that I can track down quite easily and remove but, what is DSO Exploit? Need to know more before I kill 'em with a large mallet, any ideas anyone? Yours as allways in anticipation Wolfster On a hot summers night would you offer your throat to the Wolf with the Red Roses?

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http://www.nsclean.com/dsostop.html Download the little executable and run it, it will make a minor change to your system so that the "DSO Exploit" will no longer show up. _________________________ The internet is no longer a toy, it's a COMBAT ZONE!

With thanks to XP User & Martin None of the above mentioned fixes worked. I re-ran Spybot and it came back with DSO. I looked into the reg and nothing has changed, I reallaly don't want to re-format so any more suggestions would be good. Wolfster On a hot summers night would you offer your throat to the Wolf with the Red Roses?

Do you have any other symptoms? For example your browser being hijacked ? I have had good results using Adaware as well to see if it picks up something different. Andy

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First of all, DSO Exploit is a vulnerability affecting IE, Outlook, and Outlook Express. As rachhand once said, if you get rid of DSO Exploit on Spybot, you've gotten rid of it from your computer. The reason why it keeps on appearing is because of a bug in Spybot. Although, there is a solution to all of this. Go to http://www.computing.net/windows2000/wwwboard/forum/57981.html , and on the 8th post there, somebody posts a link to a place that describes what DSO Exploit is and how to get rid of it(also from appearing on Spybot). The same thing happened to me, and I was able to get rid of it by going to the website, and reading the people's posts on that topic. Hope that helps.