Excuse my ignorance but why would you need a crack for a free download? :confused:
Or has it been released?

it could also be a partly random filename

Do you have any idea what this is: C:\WINDOWS\system32\hmktauvn.exe ?

Yeah it seems to be based on Giant AntiSpyware's Solution. Still, I will admit it has detected things that Adaware and Spybot didn't. Actually, let me rephrase that: it detected things that adaware...

have you tested it yet or is it just the usual Microsoft Hype...

Download a copy of firefox from www.mozilla.org and see if you can access them using that.

Check out the manual instructions on this link and see if the files and processes exist.
http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=640

Also note that spybot detects some things that adaware...

I see. there is a trojan of the same filename, but that usually resides in the system32 folder, so I thought this had to be legit.

You could try going to add/remove programs and see if there's any...

Do you know what C:\PROGRA~1\DIRECWAY\bin\dpcproxy.exe is?

try installing a few of the other programs listed here: http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

especially cwshredder, adaware, spybot.

If that fails you might want to read this...

Sounds like some sort of virus/malware etc.

Try http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread7507.html

You might prefer to try installing adaware, cwshredder, spybot s&d etc from this link...

The DSO exploit can be fixed, but apparently the exploit itself is very old and unused by hackers any more. The way to fix it is to open regedit, find the registry key, delete the 1004 entry that...