how to know whether keyloggers, browser hackers are silently operating in my system? will spybot be able to kill them now
2007-01-19 02:14:42 · 3 answers · asked by bobby 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
First thing I would do is clean your system. When your computer is up and running do a hard boot (just turn it off). The reason for this is some pesky programs will put themselves in a registry key called RunOnce, that will allow them to be run at start up and then the key is deleted. Then when they close normally it writes itself back. Powering off bypasses the write back.
Next up, run a couple of different spyware/adware programs, such as SpyBot, AdAware, etc. Different programs will pick up different things. Do a full virus scan. Then download and run a program called HijackThis.exe. Be careful when you run this program because you can end up removing programs from startup that you really wanted. When you run it, just have it do a scan and then you can post your log on any number of websites (just do a google search for HijackThis logs) and someone should be able to pinpoint any malicious programs that are still starting up.
Once all the malicious programs are removed you should be able to add your toolbars back to IE. You should make sure you are running the most current version of IE (or switch to Firefox).
Good luck.
2007-01-19 02:54:14 · answer #1 · answered by Cory P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry not possible to hack a toolbar?? Sounds like you have a spybot & need a program to remove it. Also try using mozilla as your browser, its alot better.
try www.mozilla.com
2007-01-19 02:50:04 · answer #2 · answered by Ivory 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about that but when you get it fixed don't use I E any more use Firefox it safer and more secure.
2007-01-19 02:35:03 · answer #3 · answered by Flat_out_Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋