HiJack This List

Welcome to Major Geeks!

Yes begin by uninstalling Spy Hunter which is not recommended and never has been! You have Windows Defender already included with Vista and it is much more effective than SpyHunter anyway.

Most people are under the very mistaken misconception that HijackThis is a malware scanning and detection tool. It is not! HijackThis is simply a tool that is used to identify browser hijackers and in some cases it will show entries for some malware that is for instance running at startup. A HijackThis log shows the following:

• a running process list with no reference to good or bad
• it lists the contents of a selected group of registry keys that is an an extremely small subset of the tens of thousands of keys that may exist. Again no reference to good or bad.
• and some of the above keys that are shown may show some non-Microsoft system services that are running. Again with no reference to good or bad.

The decision on what is good or bad is left a person with significant Windows and malware cleaning experience.

HijackThis does not come close to showing all malware that could be hiding on a PC. Anyone who has an infected computer and is relying on HijackThis without the benefit of running other scans such as Spybot, Windows Defender, BitDefender & Panda, CCleaner, etc. are more than likely still infected. In most cases, where there is one virus/trojan there are more.

The goal of this forum is to remove all malware, and this cannot be done properly by just seeing a HijackThis log.


Thus, if you have malware concerns, please follow the instructions in the below link and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.

READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide

If you cannot run certain steps, just note what happens at each point and then continue on thru ALL steps. When you return, tell us what happened and attach any requested logs you were able to get. Do note, without logs, we can not do much to give you specific help and can only guess which is not a good thing to do.