In Theory you could do just about that.
But from what I've experienced is that in some cases it might be wise to check the status of things.
The most important thing is to check whether the installation is doing fine. Once hitman is fully set up you can expect the program to run by itself.
But only if there is spy/adware that can be removed directly. Spybot for example sometimes finds spyware that is running at the time of the scan. This would be a good example for the safe-mode startup. However, Spybot has a nice feature that lets you reboot into the normal windows but it (Spybot) will start before the system itself and can thus remove all sorts of stuff.
That's why I like (and recommend) to let the program run when I am around to check every hour or so. It would be a waste to let the computer run all night (except when using p2p or folding@home etc. at the same time) and find out the next morning that it stopped after 10 minutes, because it needed user-input like granting the program to restart the system.

P.S.: Thx for the rep, though I haven't really figured out what it's all about. And to be honest, I'll be probably leaving to board after I'm through with my SoundAsleep EP-issue. So I'll make sure to find out how to return those points before then.

P.P.S.: sorry for the late reply or any double-post. The forum seemed to have some problems yesterday so browsing was almost impossible and posting indeed was impossible as it seems (I stopped after 2 tries).

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I hope that all those neat little antispyware-helpers (or hitman) could do the trick for you. If not and you can bare with it, then it would probably be best to format and reinstall windows and after setting up the hardware, make sure to get any security related things before anything else (Firewall, Antivirus, Antispyware). This is for the worst-case-scenario, but a solution sure to work if the system is full of nasty stuff.

I'm a bit too lazy at the moment to go through all of this thread (please forgive me), so I hope this hasn't been said before. I'll otherwise edit this by the weekend.
Anyways: There's a nice windows administration tool. It's great for what it does, but people who don't know what exactly happens there should rather not touch it. I don't want to be responsible for any problems being caused by this.

"Start" -> "run" -> enter: "msconfig" (without quotation-marks) -> hit enter

Now here should be an entry called startup or something similar (sorry, mine is all german). There you will see a list of all programs starting with windows. If you figure out that something is fishy, you can uncheck that entry and reboot. You'll always have the option to check it again, so as far as I'm concerned, there can be no damage done. Still I'd recommend to stick to your local geek/nerd/freak and have him (or her!) do the job for you. If you're interested, let them explain, but it's always good to have some experienced person around, especially in person and not just over some messenger or forum. Still it's impossible (and a great feeling) to solve things by yourself.
I started of by doing just the same. Learning from experience and teaching yourself is the best thing to do.

Uhm. Another thing. If you happen to find out what exactly infected your system it's always a good idea to google for it. In some cases Symantec (The guys who make Norton stuff) for example offers very small removers specifically for that virus/worm/spyware...


I don't want this to become too much off-topic (if any at all... ).
The issue I'm talking about can be found here: Click Me!

Explanation would take too long and I don't feel like doing it. So I'll just do what I always do in these situations (quoting Evanescence) :

~ Oh solitude, still with me is only you. ~
~ Solitude, forever me and forever you. ~

What the hell is this TITANSHIELD bullshit?

It has mutiple popup ads that tell me that I have a virus and or spyware on my computer.

When I double click internet explorer, it pops up the ANTISPYWAREBOX web page as my homepage and it wants me to purchase their product. When I hit properties and change my home page back to MSN, it defaults back to ANTISPYWAREBOX.

What to do. The only way to get to the internet is to use the tool bar on the home page of that DAMN POPUP...

Bastards,

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the spyware removers, NoAdware, does not seem to be getting it. How do I remove it?

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You're using NoAdware to scan your pc?

Check the first post you'll find good spyware removers. Spybot and Ad-aware are the 2 I always use and they clean pretty much everything I've had to clean.

If those 2 don't work, we'll have to try harder I did google TITANSHIELD and found a bunch of hits. So I'm guessing you'll find another way to remove it with the two programs don't.

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If you are using a legal copy of XP, download Windows Defender Beta 2.
May also need to dabble into Hijack This.

I don't mean to scare you.
But this thread http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forum...threadid=81438 suggests that you might wanna stay away from a few MS-products.

Like the author I am also not the typical to say "windows = totally ev1l!!!! (dude)" .
But well...as long as there is good freeware out there you might want to reconsider using the MS-solution.

Yeah, please don't get me wrong, I actually appreciate a lot of MS's products. Why would anyone use it if it was so bad?
But this "phoning home" is just something that should be clearly stated if they do it at all. And not implemented at all if it's that buggy.....

I can still recommend HitmanPro ( http://hitmanpro.nl/ ) as an all-in-one solution concerning spyware. It gets better with every new release and really takes care of everything once it's set up.

I'm sorry for reviving this thread but i'm using Bit Defender 10. After a sudden crash made me restart the computer, the software didn't allow me to update. Its update option is not even clickable, and no, my license expires in Aug 14th 2008 so it can't be because of out-of-date license. I'm stuck with Bit Defender 10 now. Does anyone else got the same problem? Because i'm stuck with Bit Defender now...
This is mrzeus21221, signing out...

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