Troubleshooting Hijackthis: How to Open and Run the Program

[z4955]

help! I just got hijackthis and now I can't open it. It says it uses notepad as default program to open but all I get is a page full of unreadable text. I also tried wordpad and the same thing happens. How do you open and run hijackthis?

 

[dduardo]

You must be hijacked already. EXE files shouldn't be associated with notepad. I say you go into the command line and execute from there.

 

[z4955]

I just read that on another website that notepad was the program to use to open hijackthis, but when I tried it, it didn't work. So how do I open and run the hijackthis program? what is the command line?

 

[dduardo]

No your doing it all wrong. Geez, no wonder people have so many problems with spyware.

Tell me, how do you NORMALLY run a program? When was the last time you ran Internet Explorer with Notepad?

If you need through instructions read this:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/tutorial94.html

 

[z4955]

thanks, dduardo for the bleepingcomputer site.. it was very helpful until I got to the part to unzip the hijackthis file, which may be very simple in xp, but I have Me and the unzip directions don't apply to my computer. so now I'm back at square 1 again. I have hijackthis and it's zipped. sorry to be so ignorant, but how do I unzip hijackthis in Windows Me?

 

[z4955]

nevermind! I'm getting the winzip file now
many thanks!

 

[Asphyxi8]

Run IE on notepad!? AHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAUAHAHA. I have to go and see if I can destroy my computer by trying to run UT2004 on calculator.