Re: Registry Entry!

What sort of Spyware does Ad-Aware call it?
It looks like the DSO exploit that Ad-Aware and Spybot "detected"
several years back and supposedly fixed it. If you are up to date with
patches from Microsoft for IE or have XP SP2, then you should be able
to ignore such false positives. DOS Exploit was patched nearly 4 years
ago.

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html



On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:48:27 -0800, "Marty"
<Marty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks, but I've already done as you have suggested plus also with Spybot
S&D, and I've run a full system anti-virus scan with all three showing clean.
The same Registry entry is found on the computer of a friend in Romania and
is also tagged as 'Spyware' by Ad-Aware.

"ANONYMOUS" wrote:

Marty,

Each registry entry is specific to every system. I suggest use MS's
Antispyware Beta1 free software and scan your system for any spyware.

The download is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en

Sorry I can't check the validity of the registry entry as I am not
logged in as administrator on my system.

hth


Marty wrote:

XP Home with SP2 - Can someone tell me if the following Registry entry is a
valid, uncorrupted entry: HKEY_USERS:
S-1-5-21-608057341-1434109735-2322020850-1003\software\microsoft
\windows\currentversion\ext\stats\{72267f6a-a6f9-11d0-bc94-00c04fb67863}

It appears in the Registry of my computer when I switch the Desktop icons
from 'show' to 'hide' (but not vice versa), and Ad-Aware SE Personal,
Definitions File SE1R91 identifies it as 'Spyware.'

.

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