New Computer Hope tool

hey that tool is awesome evil good job. I just tried it and it works great

[Malware Removal Specialist]

DOH! Don't thank me. That's our fearless leader the Computer Hope Admin

[CH Queen]

I don't think our Malware Specialists will be removed any time soon.

Not at all. 

Honestly you guys don't get a joke or what?

Obviously the tool can explain what our log shows but we still need malware removal specialists to tell us what to do about whatever is detected...goodness I don't know about others but hopefully carbon had gotten the joke...or is the upper floor getting thick for you too Carby?

[Global Moderator]

Hmmm?

[CH Queen]

Oh! All doubts cleared.

Good idea this has been added and new update has been uploaded.

This has enormous potential but sure as heck gonna be hard to cover all bases - as so many possibles.

Kudos tho for the effort thus far - awesome. 

I just spent a few more additional hours updating this tool.

- New interface, now displays icons in place of text on type/required/threat columns
- Had to revamp the sorting JavaScript with something new since icons were not sortable. With new sort script all columns are still sortable.
- Mouse hovers on icons will describe what they are.
- Unknown files in \windows\* will be displayed as warnings.
- Now have over 1,000 processes that are looked at (sorry still no carbon.exe). Several dozen additional malware associated programs added.
- Lots of other minor little fixes and updates not really worth mentioning.

Feel free to suggest more. I'm having fun doing this as my off work time project. A lot better than gaming or watching TV. Parse your HiJackThis logs for testing.

[Global Moderator]

I like what you did with the place.

I think you should put a warning like 'If you have posted your HijackThis log and it has found any errors or problems, please post it on our forums for our Malware Specialists to review. Fixing your HijackThis Log yourself may potentially be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing.'

Yeah during my next update session I plan on starting the diagnostic steps and will be definately recommending forums in addition to the steps. Just one more step in driving traffic to the site and getting more community members on the forum.

[Web moderator]

Outstanding tool!

Seriously, I was really amazed when I copied a HijackThis log in there and only 2 were missing.

Excellent job.

[Global Moderator]

Just following up on Evil's idea here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,70163.msg458889.html#msg458889.

I Think the script should also make sure that HijackThis is up to date (2.0.2)

Just following up on Evil's idea here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,70163.msg458889.html#msg458889.

I Think the script should also make sure that HijackThis is up to date (2.0.2)

Yep actually already does this, something I forgot to mention. I also implemented but have not yet posted an updated version that also does a virus scanner check and should also notice if more than one Virus scanner is running.

Update 3.0a:

Posted the latest version of this tool, which includes the following updates.

- Detects if anti-virus is found in Hijackthis log and if so report it in overview
- If anti-virus found watches for multiple instances, in case user has more than one anti-virus installed.
- Scans and reports back information on .cab files.
- If warnings found will now list steps to perform in HijackThis at the bottom of the report. Working with malware specialists on this to perfect this section; an example of steps generated and a HijackThis log with issues found on this post.
- Corrected a few issues with text parsing algorithm to help detect files embedded in messy lines of text.
- Added a few dozen more files to definitions
- Corrected a few other minor issues.

haha The process scanner told me to delete c:\windows\system32\choice.exe as in the DOS command choice. i happen to be running a batch file at the time!

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