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rodell · Jul 29, 2007

I should appreciate knowing which items on this list should be deleted/repaired or whatever.
Am on Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop with Vista HP & IE7.

Thanks for your help. Sincerely, RO

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DavidGP · Jul 29, 2007

Hi

What issues are you experiencing in regards to malware, if popups or browser hijacks please describe them or name what they are called?

but also follow the below guide, while some items may not run in Vista most will, but you will have to run Shownew and Getrunkeys with UAC disabled, to do this goto Control Panel > click User Accounts and Family Safety > User Accounts then click Turn User Account Control on/off, CCleaner and Hijackthis need to be run as specified in the guide and renamed, plus both will need to be run as an Admin, to do this right click the shortcut and choose "run as admin"

Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support

Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.

Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.

After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:

Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis

Make sure you also rename HijackThis.exe as suggested in the procedures. Use analyse.exe for the new name. This is very important due to some new infections going around.

When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:

CounterSpy

AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy

Bitdefender - from step 6

Panda Scan - from step 6

runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat

newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat

HijackThis

NOTE: You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!

rodell · Jul 29, 2007

Your halo is well earned and I appreciate prompt response.
It goes well beyond the examination I sought which for someone with your qualifications would be considered superficial.

No malware, or any other specific problems you mention.
Run CCleaner/Spybot S&D/Spyware Blaster/Windows Defender/AugLogoics Defrag/AVG 7.5 /PCPitstop Optimizer/Window Washer on weekly if not daily basis. By far the best is Advanced Windows Care v2 Personal -- even better in my opinion than ToniArts Easy Cleaner which I also have.
Various items customarily appear and are removed but nothing worth noting here. I'm more familiar with UAC enabled/disabled than ever I wanted to be.

At my level of inexperience to follow each and every step you outline would take more time/trouble than you can possibly understand. Particularly as I am not trying to resolve any specific problems.

Point is, I am simply looking for your (cursory) review of what's in that HijackThis file that I can or should remove/repair.

Is that possible?

Cordially, RO

chaslang · Jul 29, 2007

rodell said: ↑

Point is, I am simply looking for your (cursory) review of what's in that HijackThis file that I can or should remove/repair.

Is that possible?
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Simply put no because of 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.
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rodell · Jul 30, 2007

Thank you ChasLang.
Indeed I'm one of those with the misconception.
As no known malware currently it's a waste of your time, but I'm no less appreciative of you and Halo. Cordially, RO

chaslang · Jul 30, 2007

You're welcome.

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