How to fix popups, spyware, malware and nuisance programs

[NooNoo]

Get me a list of the good stuff, and lists of ok start up stuff would go for miles... not sure that its a good idea...

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Get me a list of the good stuff, and lists of ok start up stuff would go for miles... not sure that its a good idea...

I just meant add some links like I suggested (you'll have some similar ones, I pressume you use for checking on stuff ? Or do you google every one !?!)

Yeah sure I'd like the top post as clear as possible, but the point of this one was to help folks help themselves (isn't it !?!) - well two hours(or whatever) of me googling for stuff for folks - I didn't think was inside that remit !

Both these lists have helped me many times know what the entries in my hijackthis logs were for .. so I was thinking other folks can use those just as easily ..

I just wrote a reply for instance on a thread (the one you just moved into this forum) where if he'd used either of those lists he could have eliminated 80% of his keys & only posted the other few he wasn't sure of .. or that's how I see it

[NooNoo]

I google the ones I don't recognise... I am getting pretty good at knowing them immediately though....

Updated the first thread some...

[confus-ed]

Now the tricky bit is to work out what you don't want.

YES !

However there's no definative 'its bad list' - it just grows & grows & grows ... at the risk of labouring the point yet more, without a list of 'known startup applications & processes' you are gonna have your work cut out !

We need to know what shouldn't be there, well that's what we can't identify as 'good/required' ..

You seem to be back to front on this particular aspect .. you probably like me immediately 'know' which ones to be looking at (you say so) but what about them that don't ? With a list like this you can tick off lots of 'strange stuff' knowing what its for & concentrate on the 'unfound' stuff ..

I'll shut up now !

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A point not made on this thread which I believe is important to know/realise ..
(& thanks to geoscomp for pointing it out elsewhere, I hadn't noticed it wasn't made clear here).

If you find yourelf with some virus or other, be aware that you can't of course depend on your installed AV program to clean it up properly as thats potentially compromised, else how did you get the virus ?

Best advice then is to try another program, perhaps an online one to make sure you killed everything, if you have something that can run outside windows to check, so much the better !