Upon running HiJack This you will get to the screen shown below. Want you want to do here is click on 'Do a system scan only'. This will scan your PC for startup programs, located in the registry, startup folders, etc. Basically this will return a list of programs that start when your computer starts up. We want to see this information so we can identify bad things and remove them.
We will now have a screen similar to what is shown below. This is where it gets a little difficult because bad programs don't exactly pop up and say 'I'm bad, remove me'. However some of them do give good clues. Here are a few.
- Some SpyWare programs hide themselves as a 'search bar' of some sort, so the location will be C:\Program Files\SuperCoolSearchBar
- Some SpyWare programs have random names and live in the system32 directory, for example C:\Windows\System32\ajeiej2la.exe
- Static entries in the host file is typically bad, shown below. Remove them.
Keep in mind these are only a few and you have to be careful not to remove something you need, because unlike msconfig there is no going back after you remove an entry.
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