HijackThis
There is a new version on FileHippo but I prefer 1.99.1.
Hijackthis is the best single tool we have found to diagnose the health of a Windows system. HiJackThis scans system locations frequented by spyware and hijackers and produces a log file. This log file contains the names of both good and bad programs so discernment is necessary. Best practices:
- open "My Documents". It is best to aggregate all your important files in one location to facilitate burning to CD and DVD. You do backups, don't you?
- File, New, Folder, hijackthis. Keep the root from getting too messy so you can find things,
- download from http://filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/ and put it in the folder My Documents/hijackthis
- run hijackthis
- Do a system scan and save a log file.
- rename the logfile to todays date in iso format, e.g. 20060903.log. Iso dates sort properly. You may want to compare results at a later date.
- go to http://www.hijackthis.de/
- copy (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) into the textbox
- Analyze
- click the "stars" to learn more













