Hi Rob, The short answer is it's a bug in Internet Explorer that could, under certain circumstances, allow untrusted software to run, in other words, a vulnerability. The good news is that it's been fixed. If you're fully up-to-date on Internet Explorer patches, you can safely ignore SpyBot's report of a DSO Exploit. It reported it because of a flaw that has supposedly been fixed. If you don't have the latest versions of SpyBot (1.3) and Ad-aware (1.03) you can get them here: SpyBot Search & Destroy http://spybot.safer-networking.de/en/index.html Ad-aware SE Personal Edition 1.03 http://snipurl.com/8e4c In addition to those two tools for finding and removing the bad guys, I recommend you use SpywareGuard and SpywareBlaster to protect you from getting most of them. SpywareGuard http://wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html SpywareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html Update SpyBot and Ad-aware immediately before running them and, as always, update everything on a regular basis. Good luck. Sven Swanson, Sr. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Citkowitz" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 10:17 PM Subject: [PCSOFT] How to get rid of DSO EXPLOIT? I use AdAware and Spybot, and DSO EXPLOIT keeps coming up. What is it, and how can I remove it? Rob PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml