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Tech Support Pits column from Dear Webby's Humor Letter of
09/01/04: DSO Exploit
Tech Support Pits:
From Klaus===
Dear Webby
I also enjoy your humour immensely and vote.
I have been running Spybot for some time now and it seems
to be doing a good job. However, everytime I run spybot,
it shows 'DSO Exploit' as a problem.
When I ask spybot to eliminate it, it does. But it reappears
even if I run spybot immediately again.
Would you comment please.
Thanks
Klaus
Dear Klaus
Don't worry about the DSO Exploit.
It's a couple of bugs, but harmless.
1) Spybot fixes a Windows bug regarding unsigned Active X.
2) Windows update now fixes it too, but differently.
You can either ignore it, or fix it in the registry.
Write a plain text file with NoteMaid or any clean text editor and
save it as
FIXDSO.REG
If your editor hangs ".txt" onto the end of it, just rename it
to FIXDSO.REG
Into the file, paste what I have between the lines:
===========================================
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Zones\0]
"1004"=dword:00000003
===========================================
Save that to some place where you can find it easily,
then doubleclick it.
That will patch the Windows bug associated with
"Download unsigned ActiveX controls".
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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