Blarg
11-06-2004, 08:27 PM
Searching for a little help here from someone familiar with Spybot or just with whatever software is relevant, please.
I just installed Spybot on my new computer, and it came up with five items it grouped under DSO, or Data Source Object Exploit.
I'm wondering if there's anything particularly dangerous about letting Spybot remove them. Does anyone have any idea on that?
These DSO's are shown in Spybot as pointing to HKEY_USERS, and then to different subfolders. One goes to HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\InternetSettings\Zones\0\and a number, and the other four entries all have a different numbered second directory down. Here's an illustration of how the other ones look -- this is kinda hard to explain:
HKEY_USERS\some letters and numbers\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ InternetSettings\Zones\0\and a number
I don't know if my specifying helps make the question much clearer or not, but either way -- any ideas whether letting Spybot remove this stuff is dangerous or could cause instability? If it matters, my computer is a new Compaq and I've installed only some Party skins, Pokertracker, Ad-Aware, and Spybot, but back at the factory, Compaq installed a boatload of things like Works and Adobe etc ad infinitum.
Any help or insight would be appreciated.
I just installed Spybot on my new computer, and it came up with five items it grouped under DSO, or Data Source Object Exploit.
I'm wondering if there's anything particularly dangerous about letting Spybot remove them. Does anyone have any idea on that?
These DSO's are shown in Spybot as pointing to HKEY_USERS, and then to different subfolders. One goes to HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\InternetSettings\Zones\0\and a number, and the other four entries all have a different numbered second directory down. Here's an illustration of how the other ones look -- this is kinda hard to explain:
HKEY_USERS\some letters and numbers\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ InternetSettings\Zones\0\and a number
I don't know if my specifying helps make the question much clearer or not, but either way -- any ideas whether letting Spybot remove this stuff is dangerous or could cause instability? If it matters, my computer is a new Compaq and I've installed only some Party skins, Pokertracker, Ad-Aware, and Spybot, but back at the factory, Compaq installed a boatload of things like Works and Adobe etc ad infinitum.
Any help or insight would be appreciated.