Registry Startup Program

[French Quarter]

Registry Startup Program

If this the best group for Windows XP Malware or Spybot questions?

Is there a Registry Startup Program that will list the RUN or Startup things
in the XP Home Registry? Something that will help you locate if there is
Malware or Spybot trying to reinstall ? Or trying to Startup?

What are your recommendations?

Thanks from the New Orleans French Quarter

 

[Tim Meddick]

Registry scanning applications like HijackThis or SpyBotSD are good - they will
report if there is a new or unexpected entry to the auto "Run" list.

Another utility called AutoRuns (Sysinternals, a division of Microsoft) can tell you
all the process and services that begin automatically at system start - broken into
sub-groups under different "tabs".

HijackThis :
http://download.cnet.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html

SpyBotSD :
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

AutoRuns :
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[French Quarter]

Hi,
Thank you for the quick response. The Sys Auto Runs was perfect.

"Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist."

 

[Tim Meddick]

David,
although SpyBotSD *is* commonly described as anti - malware / spyware,
this, and HijackThis do also scan the registry for unusual and unauthorised entries,
and both include the "auto-run" part of the registry.

It is for this reason that I described both programs as "Registry-scanning"
applications, as that is the function that they also perform, that I was interested
in.

Both HijackThis and SpyBotSD make an excellent job of scanning the registry for
unwanted start-up applications, as well as performing the rest of their respective
functions for which they are more commonly known.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

No problem!

....I am glad that I could be of some help.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Peter Foldes]

David.

Tim was responding to the following you posted with his take on it

 

[French Quarter]

Tim, my ancestors are from Engliand, Blue Blooded but besides the Spybot
problem Im having problems getting Americans to call my Sir Prince Adams ??

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Mr "Quarter",
I am at a complete loss over what you were trying to say in your
last post.

Plus, as to why you felt the need to steal my sig...

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[French Quarter]

I didn't steal ur sig it was left over after I deleted the extra stuff at
the top of the post

 

[Tim Meddick]

Well, what does it look like to you?

Looking at it, you can forgive me for feeling that I had to say something!

Just because you don't use a sig, you can't just delete all someone else's except for
their sig, by way of quoting the post to which you replied, and not even indent it
with chevrons.

Then expect other people to know it's not supposed to be yours.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.