Bill said:
When I run spybot the program finds 5 examples and tells
me to fix the problem which I do. If i run the program
again it tells me it has found 4 examples but never
deletes them no matter how many times I re-run Spybot. I
have read there is a problem with spybot but I am not
sure how to know whether this a program bug in spybot or
whether I have DSO exploit. Help !
The DSO exploit was patched long ago by IE Cumulative Update
MS02-015, in March of 2002. If you've installed this specific patch,
or any subsequent IE Cumulative Updates, or IE Service Pack 1, you're
safe. It would appear that the latest version of Spybot S&D is only
checking for Internet zone settings in the registry that could be used
as work-around protection, and not for the presence of any corrective
patches. Hopefully, the makers of Spybot will soon fix this bug.
MS02-015 March 28, 2002 Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;319182
If you like, you can test your system for this particular
vulnerability at this web site:
http://www.grey.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/
The makers of SpyBot S&D have acknowledged the problem and will
fix it on their next update:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=paragraphs&detail=currentfaqs
In the meantime, in SpyBot S&D, click Mode > Advanced > Settings >
Ignore Products > Security > DSO Exploit, to turn off the false alarm.
Some people have reported that the Spybot Detection rules dated 30
Aug 04, when used with SpyBot S&D 1.3, will fix this problem.
However, I've had inconsistent results with that particular detection
update; sometimes it reads clean, then later it will once again find
the DSO problem, and then it will read clean again, all on the same
machine, with no other changes made.
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