Microsoft Offers Virus-Removal Programs

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 01/06/2005 | Ted Bridis

[MinstrelBoy]

Don't they know that their operating system is the virus? A little joke that seems to be true.

[bikepacker67]

About freakin time!

How about not releasing an OS UNTIL it's been thoroughly beta tested?

[evolved_rage]

Did hackers worldwide just get a late Christmas present. Yet another way to exploit Microsoft, I'll presume.

[MineralMan]

Monthly updates, eh? I think I'll stick with Norton. They update constantly and automatically add the updates on my system once a week.

Yeah, I think I'll stick with a non-Microsoft solution in this case.

[johniegrad]

As as aside, when I run Spybot S&D I always turn up "DSO Exploit" with 5 occurrences. Does anyone know what this is?

[proxy_user]

Well, then, a virus-removal program would probably involve some kind of penguin.....

[Bommer]

So they're going to sell a Virus protection program to protect their hackable OS? Sounds like paying off a bully for not beating you up daily.

[MineralMan]

"As as aside, when I run Spybot S&D I always turn up "DSO Exploit" with 5 occurrences. Does anyone know what this is?

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Yeah. Spybot gets rid of it, but isn't able to remove it from the registry. Not to worry. It's not active if you've run Spybot.

[alchemist54]

the giant spyware is fantastic--hope microsoft does not mess it up--I want to know for us who purchased this as a stand alone software will microsoft support us and keep the upgrades free?

[johniegrad]

Thanks. I went to the net and got a few explanations but I'm not literate enough in some of the computer basics to understand it all.

[bgnn32]

DSO Exploit is a security hole in IE, if you have the most recent security updates from Microsoft it is no longer an issue, but for whatever reason it will still show up in S&D, if you Google it you can find a change you can make to the registry so it won't show up.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Microsoft® Windows AntiSpyware is the anti-spyware program, BTW.

[holymoly]

As as aside, when I run Spybot S&D I always turn up "DSO Exploit" with 5 occurrences. Does anyone know what this is?

There's a bug in the last (1.3) version of Spybot S&D which causes it to return a false positive.

For now:

Go to "Settings"
Go to "Ignore Products"
Go to "Security" tab
Put a check on DSO Exploit

[Wiz]

Free Anti-Virus? Is this going to be a lite version so the consumers will concern to be a deluxe version that will do the repairs as well?

Kaplan encouraged consumers to buy updated antivirus software from vendors such as Symantec and McAfee.

I wouldn't say Symantec is bad but I rather go with Kaspersky, or other powerful Anti-Virus that are better than those two examples.

[johniegrad]

Thanks. I would assume this is the type of registry change you are referring to.

[Proud2BeRight]

Just think if Bill Gates had a nickle for every time a windows system crashed. Opps, now that I think of it, he does!

[kidd]

...updated versions will be offered automatically and free each month...

This should make everyone nervous. Any anti-virus software that cannot be updated at least every 4 hours is useless. My company is dumping McAfee because they cannot do better than a 4 hour response to a new virus.

Microsoft is either incompetent in this area or is very devious.

[goodnesswins]

Is SpyBot better than PestPatrol?

[johniegrad]

Thanks.