When you have determined you are infected, many times you need to do a certain amount of cleaning before you can clean the rest of the system. This will do just that.

Reading HighJackThis (HJT) logs is not for the faint at heart. It lists each and every possible point that a highjacker could use your system to infect you so the log can get quite big. Most entries are benign and it is up to you to figure out what is malicious and needs to be removed. You may want someone else to look at the log (see 'sites that analyze a HJT log'). But if you want to try it yourself, read on.

"Focus stealing" is when you and the computer are focussing on one program and another pops-up and tries to get your attention and highjacking your concentration.

Version 6 of Adobe loads much slower than version 5. The speed problem was fixed with 7. But if you need version 6 you need to pull a couple tricks on Adobe6.

A hardware optimization program that improves the machine by altering the chipset and the CPU.