Adaware Found Alexa and DOS Exploit - Help Needed

Finishrich

Just got a new PC, downloaded some anti vius, adaware, spybot etc and when I run adaware and spybot they find "Alexa Related" - something to do with "What's this Link?" in microsoft IE. The second thing is "DOS Exploit" which seems to have made 5 registry entries.

I'm not very technical on this stuff and just wondered if I should just go ahead a delete it or not? :-/

Any help would be appreciated.

Joe_Bloggs

Go ahead and delete with the assistance of Adaware.
You could choose to quarantine rather than delete if you want.
You had better patch/update your system via internet explorer as soon as possible.
J_B

Finishrich

Thanks for that JB.

What are these things anyway?

Robin_T_Cox

Ad-aware hates Alexa for some reason. Milly's page gives you the info you need to decide whether you want to get rid of it or not. Fortunately, whatever you decide, it is a pretty mild form of spyware compared to some around.
See:
http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm

The DSO exploit thing has had people tearing their hair out in droves lately. See:
http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/t10387.html

There's a DSO exploit stopper here that you may like to try:
http://www.nsclean.com/dsostop.html

HTH

Joe_Bloggs

Alexa is explained by the privacy policy.
http://pages.alexa.com/help/privacy.html

Finishrich

Thanks again I've run the DSO stopper at
http://www.nsclean.com/dsostop.html  That seemed to clear 1 of the entries but 4 still remain.

Plus found some good info at:
http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?showtopic=15308&st=0

After checking out the above link - I think spybot's last update didn't deal with it right and it should fix it in the next update, whenever that might be.  As long as all the Windows updates/patches are up todate then there hopefully shouldn't be a problem