Sorry, that's Hijackthis (one word).

Daremo



"Daremo" wrote in message
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If you're savvy enough, Hijack this will get rid of many spywares.

Daremo


"jakdedert" wrote in message
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Jim Adney wrote:
On 29 Dec 2004 18:14:30 -0800 wrote:

I have a P-IV 1.8 Ghz computer with 256MB RAM and 40GB hard disk. Of
late it has become extremely slow. I have done virus checking and
spyware checking. Nothing comes up in that. What could be the reason
for the slowing down of the computer. If anybody has any solutions
please inform me about that.

I would download Spybot and Ad-Aware, then install and run both of
them. They are both free, and you should update their data sets as
soon as you install them. New data sets come out for both regularly.

I think you will be surprised at what they find.

...and at what they don't. I got a particularly bad spyware infestation
which neither of them took care of. When I downloaded a trial version
of
System Mechanic, the included AV software found even more spyware
problems,
but didn't find some of the ones which Spybot and Ad-Aware found.

What's more, none of those programs did a thorough job of cleaning out
all
references to the infection in either the registry or elsewhere.

When your spyware checker finds a particular infestation, after
rebooting
run regedit and search for the name of the program in the registry.
Likely
you will find it many places.

jak

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Jim Adney
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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