Check-up

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by DutchMarco, May 30, 2007.

  1. DutchMarco

    DutchMarco Corporal

    This is from a friends computer... can't get RunKey and all that other stuff... (no time)
     

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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    There are a few items that need to be fixed from your HJT log ...however, when you have the time, please follow the instructions for installing and renaming HJT from the Read and Run First sticky ...and then attach the other requested logs.
     
  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Let me add a further comment to what Tim has already said.

    What is that you are trying to "Check Up"? You did not say anything about having malware problems. So if you are trying to determine whether there is any malware on the PC then read the below.

    Most people are under the very mistaken misconception that HijackThis is a 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. In addition, when HijackThis is not properly installed and renamed as required ( and as instructed in the READ ME ) then it is even less useful.
     

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