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October 17, 2004 at 11:59 pm #1974RabidKittenParticipant
Alright, once more my mother’s going mad. I may be savy, but not that savy.
Here’s the issue. The past month, mother’s been having issues with her computer being overrun with IExplorer when she hits the whole control alt delete deal. I mean, overrun. Like 50+ of the little pukes in there.
And whenever she runs spyboy she gets a DSO Exploit, which is a security hole in IE that allows websites to execute code without asking you first. (May have something to do with it she thinks *shrug*).
Anywho, she’s running on 98SE, has Norton’s Personal Firewall, runs Spybot and AdAware SE religiously and spybot is the only one that picks it up.
This is really getting her frustrated, and in turn, me, so if anyone has any suggestions… I’m up for it.
October 18, 2004 at 12:10 am #36532October 18, 2004 at 12:40 am #36533TigerbladeParticipantwhile I may agree with dango about firefox, i’m guessing you’d rather have a fix than a replacement. if you havent already tried this, try going into safe mode (Start > Run > msconfig > boot.ini tab > safeboot is the sequence I get, but i’m on XP) and running the same scanners as usual… a lot of times you can fix stuff in safe mode that wont go away otherwise. i’ve had that same DSO exploit, but ad-aware in safe mode got rid of it.
if that doesnt work…. I dunno, but i’ll look into what might work
October 18, 2004 at 12:50 am #36535RabidKittenParticipant…she has firefox, but my brother likes to use IE soemtimes. Thanks for the worthless response.
I’ll try the safemode, but I don’t really know if that’ll do much. It’s strange that it’s just recently, but I can try it out, thanks much, blade.
October 18, 2004 at 1:15 am #36542amy_d_gParticipantMight want to check this out…
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/36.html
It explains about the Spybot issue with the DSO Exploit.October 18, 2004 at 5:59 am #36539neo_ny_23MemberGet an update. Windows update for internet explorer. It might help.
October 18, 2004 at 9:53 am #36531DJHyperbyteMemberQuote:quote:Originally posted by RabidKittenThanks for the worthless response.
It’s not a worthless response at all, miss Sarcasm. It might not be the answer you are looking for, but it is far from worthless.
October 18, 2004 at 4:16 pm #36536RabidKittenParticipantI did read more about the DSO and such, yadda yadda all that and I understand it now, also because of that other topic posted, so that’s good, and thanks.
We’ll just see what happens with the IExplorer overrunning issue. Mother said she finally got to run update all the way through without it screwing up so…yeah we’ll see today about it.
And to think, all of this because she’s trying to defrag and it keeps restarting…bah I swear. Thanks fellahs, and we’ll see what happens today on “all my circuts”.
And yes…yes it was worthless. It wont fix the problem simply by getting rid of IE and putting up firefox because we’ve tried that. It was an alternative, not a fix. It would be a good response for someone looking for an alternative, but worthless when asking for fixit help.
October 18, 2004 at 5:27 pm #36540neo_ny_23MemberI think I understand now what was going on with your mom’s computer. See, there is this adware, surfbar, which is mainly responsible for those kind of things. Visit this website:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100597.htm for more details.
My suggestion: Download Webroot Spysweeper and do a complete sweep..October 18, 2004 at 10:27 pm #36537RabidKittenParticipantThank you neo, I’ll check that out and see what I can glean from it *thumbs up*
October 19, 2004 at 1:18 am #36544Ender1490MemberQuote:quote:Originally posted by RabidKittenMother said she finally got to run update all the way through without it screwing up so…yeah we’ll see today about it.
If you want to defrag on Windows 98, you’ll have to run the computer on safe mode first or else the defragging will restart after a few mins over and over again.
October 19, 2004 at 2:05 am #36538RabidKittenParticipantThank you! That is the main issue that sprung all this other crap. She doesn’t pay attention to any of the other issues until something major doesn’t work, then she drives me batty. That -is- very useful. Stupid 98, bah.
Ender, you’re my new best friend. *gives him a balloon*
October 19, 2004 at 2:09 am #36543bigcfkMemberyeah I get that too. when I press ctrl+alt+del I have iexplore like a thousand times.
I’d firefox, but how much CPU does it use up?
October 19, 2004 at 3:24 am #36534TigerbladeParticipantfirefox doesnt take that much CPU usage… its more of how much memory it takes. i’ve seen it take up to 70mb, or as low as 15. depends on what you’re doing and how many pages you have open.
October 19, 2004 at 5:25 am #36530Jeff HesterKeymasterFound this that might be of assistance to you also .. http://www.nsclean.com/dsostop.html
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