HijackThis and how to use it.

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What is HijackThis?

Trend Micro HijackThis is a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file settings from your computer. HijackThis makes no separation between safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to selectively remove items from your machine. In addition to this scan and remove capability HijackThis comes with several tools useful in manually removing malware from a computer.

HijackThis will display a list of areas on your computer that might have been changed by spyware. Do not change any settings if you are unsure of what to do.

Advanced users can use HijackThis to remove unwanted settings or files.

IMPORTANT: HijackThis does not determine what is good or bad. Do not make any changes to your computer settings unless you are an expert computer user.

Step by step guide on how to use HijackThis.

First of all you will need to download HijackThis

Once you have downloaded it you can now install it, do so by double clicking the HJT install icon.

Follow the installation process until you have successfully installed HijackThis.

Once you have downloaded and installed HijackThis you will need to do a system scan. Click on "Do a system scan and save a logfile"

Once the scan has completed, a log file will save in Notepad which will automatically open. You can now copy the HijackThis log and paste it in a new thread on Support Forums or any other sites you may know of. Someone with experience and knowledge of HijackThis logs will analyze your log and guide you through the process of removing any infections you may have.

If you have any issues with installing and using HijackThis please either post below or PM me, I will try and help you out as much as possible.