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Thread ID: 50617 2004-10-26 09:45:00 Spybot - DSO Exploit Fix Available gerrypics (323) Press F1
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284965 2004-10-26 09:45:00 www.majorgeeks.com gerrypics (323)
284966 2004-10-26 11:47:00 Can't find anything about it on Spybot's own site, so will wait till they mention it. Did go to your link though. pulling hair out (4493)
284967 2004-10-26 12:09:00 I agree Marg ...
"The DSO Exploit is a security gap in IE. Microsoft did already repair this, so if you have all Windows updates and patches installed, it will not be dangerous for your system. Spybot S&D will still find it, because it contains an invalid value. Spybot S&D just has to reset that value. Unfortunately, in the current version, it sets again an incorrect value, so it is found in the next scan. Please update your main program. "
So I presume an update will be available thru the official site soon
And thank you gerrypics for the "heads up" :)
KatiMike (242)
284968 2004-10-27 00:57:00 The official site is on that Majorgeeks site the Authors site. Spacemannz (808)
284969 2004-10-27 02:39:00 I've always thought this (www.safer-networking.org) was the "official " site ? I wonder if the DSO fix will become available through the " update function integrated into Spybot-S&D." ? KatiMike (242)
284970 2004-10-27 02:52:00 >> The official site is on that Majorgeeks site the Authors site. >>

Funny that. When I wanted to download skins, I couldn't from the Spybot page I was going to. Yet I could get them from the following link:
Here (www.allsecpros.com)

Why doesn't Patrick Kolla mention this anywhere? It's getting rather confusing. For I while there I couldn't get any updates through the program and had to go the manual way. It's OK now though after about the 2nd reinstall of Spybot.
pulling hair out (4493)
284971 2004-10-27 02:57:00 Just noticed that on that link to Majorgeeks, at the bottom left-hand corner is an icon with ' Lavasoft authorised affiliate' written on it. pulling hair out (4493)
284972 2004-10-27 04:05:00 Its common practice for Lavasoft(adawere) and Spybot to release new files/updates/beta's, etc etc via majorgeeks website. metla (154)
284973 2004-10-27 19:01:00 last night a new update for Spybot came thru - definitions / English help etc incl the need to immunise again . Have run it on 3 'puters so far and each time it's picked up an oddity , once said BackOrifice was present [ but not found by Norton or AVG or trend micro housecall , on two others said something in German was present ... also doesn't seem the DSO fix is incorporated into the fix , at least not in win2k ... :| KatiMike (242)
284974 2004-10-27 20:12:00 The TX version DOES fix the DSO prob. Well it did on these 2 PC's running XP.

Not too sure why it still picks it up on yours KatiMike.

Just to be sure i would go to the Symantec site and check out what files
Backorifice uses and what entries it puts in the system, and check your
system manually, for any known signs of BO.

There was a prob in the previous version also of Spybot (well on this PC), Xabot, which said something in German. BUT since the TX install that has disappeared as well. If it is Xabot, that you saw, it may well be the same bug I came across, when I had the 1.3 version.
Spacemannz (808)
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