wwdj/windows

Malware, spyware, trojans, viruses and other parasites are getting increasingly sophisticated. Not only do you have to be on your guard against their varied ways of getting their programmes into your computer, but they can hide deep in your system, disguise themselves as a windows process, change your security software settings to prevent it from updating or running, even add itself to a scanners ignore list.
If your security scanners fails to detect anything and your enjoyment of the internet is being spoiled with persistent advertising pop ups, your home page has been changed, searches are redirected, programmes are being added to your desk top, or strange, unprompted behaviour , all is not lost.

Hijack this is a scanning application originally written by merijn.org and noe distributed by TrendMicro primarily designed to expose Browser Hijackers, but it can also detect many forms of Spyware, as well as Trojans and viruses.
It creates a log file of registry items in areas of your registry commonly used by malware, and produces a list of running processes.

The log is then examined for registry entries and files that belong to malicious or dangerous programmes.
Reading and understanding these logs requires time and knowledge, or at least the time to learn. This is not a easy, 'automated' option. Most people post the log file on a forum for advice.

This tool which will automatically analyze your log file, give you information on the registry entries/files and if they offer a threat to you. This you should use as a 'guide' to instigate further checks on any potentially dangerous or unknown process running on your computer.