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Re: Bogus "page cannot be displayed" error on URL http:///

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Jan 6th, 2005
Good- it looks like your clean now. According to Microsoft, the fdeploy dll is a valid Windows component:



Fdeploy.dll Category Fdeploy.dll is an MMC extension to gpedit.dll that provides settings for Folder Redirection Group Policy.


Now that you've gotten rid of the nasties, here are some suggestions to minimize your chances of future infections:

1. Use Windows Automatic Update function to keep your system as up-to-date as possible with the most current Microsoft security and bug fixes.

2. Stop using Internet Explorer as your web browser. Because IE is so closely tied into the Windows operating system itself and contains so many security flaws, switching to another browser such as Netscape, Firefox, or Opera will greatly reduce the avenues through which spyware/adware/hijackers/etc. can infect your computer.

3. Install preventative utilities such as SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard (links are in my sig below), especially if you absolutely have to continue using Internet Exploder. These utilities protect areas of your system known to be vulnerable to malicious attacks.

4. Tighten up some of Internet Explorer's existing, default settings to make it more secure. Some info on that can be found here.


5. Obviously: install a good anti-virus program and enable its "auto-protect", "auto-update", and email-scanning features.

6. None of your utilities are of much good if you don't check for updates frequently; updates for anti-spyware/anti-virus programs can be released as often as ever two or three days.
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