"DSO Exploit" and "Ad Destroyer"

Hello,
I had an unfourtunate mishap with my computer this weekend and the next thing I knew there was spyware galore! I have done everything in the READ ME FIRST: Basic Spyware, Trojan And Virus Removal.

While I do belive that I have removed most of the bad stuff on my computer, two things remain. When I run Spybot, "DSO Exploit" shows up. I tell it to delete it and it still shows up the next time I scan. I also have "Ad Destroyer" showing up in the program menu. When I click on it, it says "empty." I have tried deleting it and it still shows up after I reboot. Let me know if you want me to post a HJT log.
Thanks in advance everyone!

 

DSO exploit is a Spybot bug. If you are up to date with all your patches, it isn't a problem. Just go into your settings menu and select ignore products option and put a check in the box beside DSO exploit. I'll leave the "Ad Destroyer" problem to an expert.

 

At this point in time, you can safely IGNORE the findings of DSO Exploit in SpyBot S&D...or you can tell SpyBot to ignore them (open SpyBot, at the top where it says FILE MODE LANGUAGE HELP -- click on MODE and chose Advanced. Then go to "settings" tab on left, choose "ignore Products" and scroll down to the DSO Exploit box and check it. Then SpyBot will ignore it in a scan.

If you're uncomfortable doing this, don't --- and in some new SpyBot update they say they will fix this issue, so just ignore that it finds it for now, and later it will either not find it or when it does find it, there will be a problem (does that make sense?)

I don't know anything about Ad Destroyer, sorry.

 

Just Playin typed a little less and typed faster -- sorry for the repitition.

 

Re: "DSO Exploit"

There's another thread here about DSO Exploit:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=41611

and it gives another link to go to if you want to read more.

 

About Ad Destroyer, when I go to start > all programs, it is listed as a program. When I click it, it just says "empty." I never installed it, it does not show up on ad/remove programs, and I cannot find a Program File associated with it. When I click it, it just says "empty." When I delete it from the all programs menu, it just reappears when I reboot.

About DSO Exploit, are you saying I should just ignore?

Thanks for the responses. I really appreciated it.

 

YEP! As long as you are up-to-date on Microsoft updates (as Chaslang mentions in that other thread I referred you to)

 

Hi all,

Don't know if this will help, but if my memory serves me well, Ad Destroyer runs on startup and must be disabled via Task Manager before it can be deleted. But, like I said, I'm not sure. . .

PP

 

"Ad Destroyer"

That sounds like a good place to start ---

What is your operating system?

If you have Windows XP you probably have your "system restore" ON and you'll have to turn this off, probably start in safe mode and then try to find this program to delete it or use spyware programs to delete it, then reboot and your computer won't (hopefully) "restore" the files. That could be one of your problems.


I did a search and found another forum dealing with this and they link it with "Virtual Bouncer" -- you may want to hunt for that too. One of these links mentioned where they "found" it in their computer...
http://www.newbie.org/help/messages/29080.html
http://www.newbie.org/help/messages/31435.html
I don't think those sites add any extra info than what you'll find here:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Is there anything there (that you told us you read) that you should re-do? If they said to do it in safe mode and/or with system restore off, did you?
These things are very important.

If you have done all of that...hmmmm .... well, come on back and let us know.

 

Yes, I am running XP.
Yes, I did everything exactly as the READ ME FIRST suggested including turning off the system restore and scanning in safe mode.
I can try again.

 

Here is my log. I think I might have things cleaned up because everything seems to be running pretty good. Thanks again for your help.
Kate