Scan your system for malware by Hijack this ,a freeware

Hijack this a freeware utility which provides the quick and efficient malware scanning and detection.HijackThis is good for many reasons like it’s free, it’s small and a stand-alone file, it scans very fast, and it’s widely used — so many people are familiar with using it and analyzing results.

HijackThis is now owned by TrendMicro and available for free.You can download it here [ver 1.99] and here [ver beta 2.0],these are two different versions.As you will like to use this more than once, let’s keep it someplace for future use.

Extract the hijackthis.exe file and put it somewhere like "C:\Program Files\HijackThis "the reason for having it’s own folder is that it creates backups of files you remove, in the event that you need to restore them.


After this execute the .exe file and then it will perform the full system scan.It will scan the registry, startup items, browser start pages, system information files, the HOSTS file, and more.

After this it will show you the scan results. Many of these items in the list are actually good. For example, it will report all of your startup items, and it’s up to you to choose which ones are bad and need to be fixed. Fortunately, you have lots of help choosing what to fix. When the scan is complete, choose Save Log and save the log file to your Desktop. Don't close the software..

Now goto its site and upload your scan results to it.It will redirect you to a page which will explain you your results and the you can choose which item is to be deleted from the still running Hijack this.

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