DSO exploit and NewtonKnows

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:55:47 -0700

I'm the original poster.

I just wanted to add since my last post: I was curious to
know why Ad-aware didn't notice the NewtonWorks spyware
which was found by Spybot as C:\WINNT\Temp\vupd so I went
to search for it (I have Windows 2K) and there it was
(vupd) so I right-clicked it to see Properties and it
shows as 0 bytes in Size, and 0 Files, 0 Folders.
Therefore, maybe Spybot recognized the "vupd" but in
actuality, there is nothing in there (maybe was taken care
of by Ad-aware months ago without me paying attention to
it).

Could this be the possible explanation and if so, can't I
just delete "vupd" from C:\WINNT\Temp and be done with
this?

Thanks for any replies on this subject.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi.
>
>I just ran Spybot S&D for the first time (after using Ad-
>aware for so long) and it says it found four things that
>I'm not sure what to do about.
>
>Of the two things, both related to a DSO Exploit and that
>there's a security hole in IE (Internet Explorer). More
>information was found here
>http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/
but
>I don't know much about computers and this all seems
alien
>to me. More information here on
>http://www.computing.net/windows2000/wwwboard/forum/57981.
h
>tml
>
>Should I be concerned considering I've had all my
critical
>patches from Windows Update?
>
>The other thing was Alexa-related so I think I know what
>to do with that.
>
>The last thing (and fourth) thing I'm concerned about
that
>Spybot found was "vupd" that I have read to
>be "NewtonKnows," a spyware. I've read on another website
>that if I try to remove it manually, that deleting the
LSP
>used by NewtonKnows will result in a lost Internet
>connection. I also find out that this comes with
Grokster,
>but I don't have Grokster!
>
>Should I let Spybot remove it?
>
>Any help appreciated!
>
>.
>

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