Virus concerns

Perkunas

Perkunas

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2006

In my own little world, looking at yours

Only Us[NotU]

E/

While I was out of town for 3 days, my son and nephew downloaded Limewire and some music. Since then, my comp is running downright slow. I use Spybot to scan everytime I turn the comp on and DSO Eploit is always there. I delete it and run AVG anti-virus and AVG anti-spyware and followup with Ad-Aware. These find nothing, but that DSO Eploit keeps reappearing. Can someone reccomend an anti-virus program that will find this virus? I do NOT and WILL NOT use Norton (hate having to 'renew' it every year).

Smile Like Umean It

Smile Like Umean It

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

E/Rt

I use Zonelab and haven't had any problems with it yet.
I also use the free online scan from Trend Micro.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

Windows Defender is effective. Download it from Windows website.

{BHC}KingWarman88

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

Castle 2_5_2 SwissLand

BHC

W/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Admins Bane
Windows Defender is effective. Download it from Windows website.
Hey,

I had AVG, and is now annoying. I think I shall get this also, Thanks Admins..

Perkunas

Perkunas

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2006

In my own little world, looking at yours

Only Us[NotU]

E/

Thanks. Will try them out.

Solveig Ikram

Solveig Ikram

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

none

N/

DSO Exploit is a kind of backdoor left in Windows by the designers. This is fixed by an updated version of Windows or a patch can't remember which.
If you are interested in what this is and how to remove it just do a search on the Windows help site.
As far as i can remember (i dealt with this awhile back) it is not too serious a problem but it does pose a way in for pesky hackers.

Perkunas

Perkunas

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2006

In my own little world, looking at yours

Only Us[NotU]

E/

The DSO Exploit annoys me, but I am concerned more about what keeps reactivating it upon removal. I am currently 2 hours into running Trend Micro (dialup, sucks), cause nothing else can find anything wrong. The last time my computer ran this slow, it had several peices of spyware and a couple of viruses on it. I am told, next to porn sites, free music download sites are bad for these 'invaders'.

aeroclown

aeroclown

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Louisiana

E/Mo

Make sure you don't have limewire running in the background. In fact trash it and never let them use it again. If you are going to use one, use frostwire.

And no free music download sites are not bad, you just shouldn't visit every website you can find. You should use trusted sources. In fact that really goes for anything you can visit anywhere on the web. There are no specific website types that are better then others, its all about the owner and the coder.