Joal I will say this, you are very lucky. Doing it this way is dangerous.

I post this mainly as advise to others. This is NOT the way to do things. I say again, HJT is NOT a removal program. It MIGHT remove HJT log entries showing which point to malware, spyware, viruses and trojans but it WILL NOT remove the infection.
Don't follow this poster's example. If you feel there is infection on your computer begin HERE. Then start a new thread here stating your problems, programs run in an attempt to correct these problems and include all logs. END by running a Full Scan with HiJackThis and post that log too. Don't attempt fixes with HiJackThis, just use it for scanning until directed to do fixing with it.

regarding jholland's critique, I did not respond to the Feb 2007 post ,due to heart and lung failure.
In spite of everything, my computer is running with windows 2000 and still use HJT and killbox .
thank you joal

Hijackthis is revealing less and less malware that might be present on ones pc, so even though one may "fix" what is seen, there is a better than good chance that other malware exists on the pc.
Each to their own, but Judy is correct.