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Old September 22nd 05, 11:18 PM
S. Taylor
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The links Leythos lists in his reply further down are good.
I've never used HijackThis, so i couldn't recomend much from its logs.

I do use Spybot Search & Destroy and can say that it's a very good good
resource.
and can show you your startup items, BHO's, installed ActiveX, running
processes, Hosts
file, etc., so you have a chance of identifying unknown software.
Spybot can also, automatically, block attempts to automatically install
known
malicious software and block redirections and the such, to known dangerous
websites
But Spybot doesn't detect everything, so you should use multiple programs
with overlapping
protection.
You can use Spybot to identify programs that load unknowngly,
by viewing the Start Up Item & BHO's tool, then locating the files and
viewing thier properties.
Any files that have no Version & Company info listed can be manualy moved to
another folder,
where they can't be found be the system and loaded, until you're sure that
deleting them won't have
negative consequences ( i.e make sure the folder you move them to isn't
listed in the PATH
enviroment variable )

You can use the google toolbar to block pop ups
and I'd suggest that you either disable .hta's or the Windows Scripting
host,
since IE can be tricked into running them.



"Chris/Power Salad" wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:05:24 -0400, "S. Taylor" ravenshaATstis.net
wrote:

Get and use a tool that'll let you browse your list of BHO's and installed
activex objects. Uninstall any that you can do without or that you don't
remember installing
intentionally.


Thank you - what programs would this include? Or should I run a
HijackThis log?



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