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Right, in this little tut I’m going to introduce you to one of the most powerful tools in the battle against malware/viruses, its HijackThis! or HJT as I’ll be referring to it as..

HijackThis examines the registry and contents of the hard disk and puts them into one, nice and easy log (HJT log).
Half the entries in the log are legit, you need to know what you’re looking at before you attempt a fix, as removing these legitimate entries could lead to problems.
That’s why you post your logs here and get them analysed by people who know what there looking at.
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Getting Started

So, first of all, download and install HJT from here:

http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip

I'll assume your using Firefox and the downloads should by default go to the desktop( if not then shame on you)you should now see a ZIP file on your desktop, look’s something like this:



Right click it and choose (if you’re a winRAR’er like me) “Extract to hijackthis/” or if you haven’t got winRAR its right click “Extract all files to folder” I think…



Once you’ve done that you should have a new folder on your desktop named “hijackthis”, double click the new folder and delete the old ZIP file.



^^That’s what you should see^^, now if you’ve followed me right so far, you’ve got HJT in its own folder without having to mess around with it too much, if you have what you see in the picture then good, just close the window and leave the folder there for now.
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** Important!!**

Always have HJT in its own folder; a fix should not be attempted unless the poster has put HJT in its own folder.
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Anyway, now all we do is copy and paste the folder we’ve just got into C:/Program Files/HijackThis, but before we do so, make sure to create a desktop shortcut.
Open your “hijackthis” folder that’s on your desktop; remember the one you extracted from the ZIP file about 5 minuets ago?? Yep, that one...right click the HJT icon and “Create Desktop Shortcut”




Now you should see a NEW HJT icon right next to your original one, something like this:



Now all we do is drag & drop the one named that’s called “Shortcut To HijackThis” and has little arrow in the bottom corner onto our desktop wherever you want it.

That’s the desktop shortcut bit done, now for the..
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So now all we do is right click our “hijackthis” folder and select “Cut”



Now, double click “My Computer” > C: (your hard disk drive) > the “program files” folder, now just hit Ctrl and v OR Right click > Paste

You have now downloaded and installed HJT, created a desktop shortcut and placed HJT in C:/Program files/hijackthis
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Using HijackThis

Now you’re ready to go!!, double click the desktop shortcut you made earlier to launch HJT, lets [b]“Do a system scan and save logfile”

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HijackThis should take about 30 seconds to finish scanning, you should then see a notepad doc pop up, like so..

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This is your logfile, from this we can see whats going on in there, just save the doc to somewher you’ll remember and copy and paste the entire log in the appropriate forum.
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Then…just WAIT for help, don’t even think of attempting to fix your own log if you don’t know what your doing..
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And that’s it, hope this helped

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All feedback and qeustions are welcome

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Nice job rav! A very nice program to use if you ever encounter the l2m infection....along with many others!!

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Hello rav009

A nice tut there, the whole thing went easy as pie, although i do have a small querie, i am certain that this will not have any adverse effects on any other programs, ie Norton Antivirus or any others, i am sure that it should be fine but it is good to know, thanks again for the great tut :-P

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If you have Norton AV, honestly you'd be better off using free AV's like AVG, Panda, or Kapersky. Any of them will work okay, and they won't hog nearly as many as system resources as the Yellow monster. Besides which, a lot of trojans are written specifically to attack Norton's code, it really doesn't protect you from much.

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@Silver Sony, Installing HJT will not have any effect on any other program unless you go fixing entires within HJT itself, andI suggest you get away fron NAV and use AVG free or somthing similer, NAV is bad, you can take my word for it.

@Jamaal10, This program is beyond good, its amazing!! when you see what you can do with it, it can remove every infection known to man apart from the few that need there own fix, i've been using HJT a while now,a deadly weopan to master.

@Everyone, Thank you kindly for liking my tut guys, its nice comments like theese that make writing them worth while.

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edit: nevermind

One of the handy tools in HJT is the "delete on boot". Instead of going into safe mode and digging through alot of jargon...you can just use the delete on noot tool and selct the file you want deleted. Then you reboot and when you comeback to your desktop...it's gone.

Easy and painless.

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A fellow HJT helper are you Punqewe ?

And I agree, the program is full of such features, when used properly its one of the best tool's around IMO.

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