Quote Originally Posted by Liamm83
I've had my laptop for two weeks now and for the last few days the internet has been running slowly, often hanging, and randomly re-directing to porn sites. This is despite having all the most recent updates of windows (I'm running XP) and virus checks, Spybot etc.

Anyway, we've got rid of everything we've been alerted to apart from this 'DSO exploit' so it means that it's this causing all my problems. Liam
I wouldn't say the DSO exploit is causing your problems on that. If you had the coolsearch spyware, that is the likely culprit. This has been one of the hardest bugs to remove in my experience. Here has been my fix.

After running SB and Adaware, all would seem fine until the user went on the web and clicked a few times. XXX sites started popping up. Only thing I could find was a strange .exe in the Registry RUN location. Located the file and the properties added to the suspicion. So I deleted, removed from Registry. Problem still exist and the file would recreate itself when I deleted it. Finally in safe mode I renamed the file from ????.exe to ????.ex_ and success. It didn't recreate itself.

That has happened on about 3 XP machines I have cleaned. All of them had Coolsearch spyware as the common theme.

But NooNoo's suggestion to do a system restore maybe easier at this point.