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Originally Posted by Oz
Autoruns and HiJack This are both good tools to clean out "crapware" that's running at startup.
The only problem is if you don't know the good from the bad.
This sort of tutorial is exactly what you're looking for.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=547&page=2
But start by uninstalling all unneccesary security products, they tend to conflict with each other quite badly. |
good advise. most security products are bigger resource hogs than the spyware and viruses they protect against. i laughingly call Norton a virus itself because of the way it takes over your system. i unistalled all but the ZoneAlarm firewall and just run an online scan from trend microsystems from time to time. and keep restore on and backup frequently.