Before you go off and post your HJT log,go to http://hijackthis.de/ first.It will tell you what is wrong,if anything is.

The only problem with this is that they are not always 100% accurate and sometimes say things like "if you don't know what it is delete it", and most users here don't know what it all means.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do use their website, mainly to stay on the good side of the Tech forum Gods, but i just deal with things that are pretty much definately bad, and use google (which can be equally inaccurate) to look up other processes or get a second opinion.

A quick example from my VM:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1

 

 

 

Scan saved at 1:56:50 PM, on 12/24/2006

 

 

 

Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)

 

 

 

MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Running processes:

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\system32\services[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\was6[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\Common Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\uwasdc[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\Common Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\uwasers[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\uwas6cw[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\windows\system32\rlvknlg[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSIEXEC[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\System32\taskmgr[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\System32\msiexec[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\System32\MsiExec[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\System32\MsiExec[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareService[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\explorer[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareTray[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\WINDOWS\System32\MsiExec[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareUser[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Documents and Settings\Malware testing\Desktop\HijackThis[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

O2 - BHO: URLLink - {4A2AACF3-ADF6-11D5-98A9-00E018981B9E} - C:\Program Files\NewDotNet\newdotnet7_48.dll

 

 

 

O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free] "C:\Program Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\was6[Caution: ExecutableFile]" /min

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DC6_Check] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\uwasdc[Caution: ExecutableFile]"

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ERS_Check] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\uwasers[Caution: ExecutableFile]"

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [uwas6cw] "C:\Program Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\uwas6cw[Caution: ExecutableFile]" -c

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [New.net Startup] rundll32 C:\PROGRA~1\NEWDOT~1\NEWDOT~2.DLL,ClientStartup -s

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RelevantKnowledge] C:\windows\system32\rlvknlg[Caution: ExecutableFile] -boot

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [explorer] C:\WINDOWS\System32\explorer[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [VMware Tools] C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareTray[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [VMware User Process] C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareUser[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

O9 - Extra button: Related - {c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a} - C:\WINDOWS\web\related.htm

 

 

 

O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Show &Related Links - {c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a} - C:\WINDOWS\web\related.htm

 

 

 

O23 - Service: VMware Tools Service (VMTools) - VMware, Inc. - C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareService[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from hijackthis.de the following were unknown (I've only listed a few):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\was6[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\Common Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\uwasdc[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\Common Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\uwasers[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\Program Files\WinAntiSpyware 2006 Free\uwas6cw[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

C:\windows\system32\rlvknlg[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other notes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [explorer] C:\WINDOWS\System32\explorer[Caution: ExecutableFile]

 

 

 

"Must be fixed!Variant of the RapidBlaster parasite (in an "explorer" folder in Program Files). It is not recommended you manually uninstall RapidBlaster but use RapidBlaster Killer - see here. Note - this is not the valid Windows Explorer which has the same executable name"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nope...BFK "Perfect keylogger"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So you see, it can be quite inaccurate....