I've noticed as I've been reading through this forum, that people are often advised to rename hijackthis.exe (I think Gerbil always says to rename it imabunny.exe?)
I was just curious why you advise people to do this? Are viruses/trojans/spyware/malware that are known to attack it? Do antivirus programs flag it?
Anyway, just curious...Thanks!
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Jump to PostYes, they do. Vundo is one obvious one that shuts its processes, removes its keys, when it sees hijackthis start. But sometimes we can tell if Vundo is active by other traces and so ask for the cleaning tool to be run without confirming the files and keys are there …
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