Re: Total frustration with IE6, XP SP2, and wanted pop-ups

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From: Jan Il (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 10/02/04

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    Hi Auutumn :-)

    My apologies for not getting back to you sooner. Thank you for the
    additional information, it does help, by letting us know what you have tried
    already. :-)

    'k...here is some information on this, this the following and see if it
    helps:

    DSOstop2 (new version 3/21/02)

    The "DSO Exploit" (Data Source Object) was first reported by GreyMagic
    Software of Israel on February 27, 2002 and a "workaround" for Microsoft's
    defective code was provided by Axel Pettinger and Garland Hopkins on March
    3, 2002. Their fix requires the user to manually edit the registry. Many
    computer users are extremely nervous (and justifiably so) about doing this,
    owing to years of warnings and advisories not to. This FREE utility will
    safely do it for those who do not feel confident running and editing
    "Regedit." Read the details for more information and links to the registry
    modification instructions and test site.

    Take a look here for more information and to download the registry utility
    and instructions to take care of the registry changes needed to correct this
    problem:
    http://www.nsclean.com/dsostop.html

    To disable the SP2 popup blocker:

    The popup blocker that is installed with SP2 is simple to turn on and off
    and is turned on by default. It shows up down in the status bar of IE and a
    simple right click gives you the option to enable/disable the blocker. One
    nice feature is that you can enable/disable popups for certain sites rather
    than just arbitrarily enable or disable them for all sites. See:

    Internet Explorer Popup Manager
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/XPSP2/securebrowsing/popupmanager.aspx

    If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
    with the details and any error messages.

    Hope this helps

    Jan :)
    Smiles are meant to be shared,
    that's why they're so contagious.

    Please reply to the newsgroup so others may benefit.
    Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.

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    > DSO ExploitI guess what I should have said about the pop-up blocker
    > is where
    > I disable it. In IE, I go to Tools - Internet Options - Privacy - and
    > turn
    > off Pop-up blocker. I'm not aware of any of pop-up blocker for IE or
    > SP2.
    > I've also tried turning off the firewall but no go. I ran three
    > ad/spyware
    > tools: Ad-aware, Spy Sweeper, and Spybot. Spybot did catch an attempt
    > to
    > modify IE a day back but I hot the OK button to quickly to notice
    > what was
    > being modified. I just ran Spybot and the only thing it always
    > reports back
    > is:
    >
    > Problem: DSO Exploit
    > Occurences: 5
    >
    > DSO Exploit: Data source object exploit (Registry change, nothing
    > done)
    > HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
    > Settings\Zones\0\1004!=W=3
    >
    > DSO Exploit: Data source object exploit (Registry change, nothing
    > done)
    >
    >
    HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-839522115-162531612-2147137731-1004\Software\Microsoft\W
    indows\CurrentVersion\Internet
    > Settings\Zones\0\1004!=W=3
    >
    > DSO Exploit: Data source object exploit (Registry change, nothing
    > done)
    > HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
    > Settings\Zones\0\1004!=W=3
    >
    > DSO Exploit: Data source object exploit (Registry change, nothing
    > done)
    > HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
    > Settings\Zones\0\1004!=W=3
    >
    > DSO Exploit: Data source object exploit (Registry change, nothing
    > done)
    > HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
    > Settings\Zones\0\1004!=W=3
    >
    >
    > --- Spybot - Search && Destroy version: 1.3 ---
    > 2004-05-12 Includes\LSP.sbi
    > 2004-08-11 Includes\Cookies.sbi
    > 2004-09-16 Includes\Dialer.sbi
    > 2004-09-16 Includes\Hijackers.sbi
    > 2004-09-16 Includes\Keyloggers.sbi
    > 2004-09-16 Includes\Malware.sbi
    > 2004-08-12 Includes\Revision.sbi
    > 2004-09-16 Includes\Security.sbi
    > 2004-09-16 Includes\Spybots.sbi
    > 2004-09-16 Includes\Trojans.sbi
    > 2004-08-30 Includes\Tracks.uti
    >
    > I hope this helps. Let me know if there's any other information that
    > you'd
    > like to see.
    >
    > "Jan Il" wrote:
    >
    >> also....try disabling the SP2 firewall and see if that helps.
    >>
    >> Hope this helps
    >>
    >> Jan :)
    >> Smiles are meant to be shared,
    >> that's why they're so contagious.

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