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I believe most people who have spent days trying to remove spywares and other
viruses would love to see a function that enables the user to view all
contents of startup folders and also all different Run-keys of the registry.
I have seen trouble related to when user try to remove keys manually in the
registry and end up removing too much, and I believe if the user has a chance
to select what they would like to run or not by using a better gui than
regedit, they wouldn't end up doing as many mistakes as today. Also, this
would probably make it much easier for support teams to find out what is
actually loaded at startup.
I don't think it has to be much work to get a working code for this. I
believe most of you have seen the section "Startup Programs" in msinfo32...
Just add the possibility to block unwanted programs.

Yes, I know that there is already other software that has functions like
this, but I'd recommend this to be a part of the next version of MS
Anti-Spyware...

/Stefan Bjuhr, Sweden
 
Open MSAS, Click Advanced tools, System Explorers, Startup programs. From
what you said this looks like what you want.
 
JoeM's given the right info, in terms of what is available within Microsoft
Antispyware beta1.

However--this isn't an easy process at all. One of the better ways to get a
handle on startup settings is the free vbs script found here:

http://www.silentrunners.org/

This is maintained--i.e. it is regularly updated. There are a surprising
number of possible places, and new ones are found with some regularity.
 
Interesting, Will look at that too thanks Bill

Bill Sanderson said:
JoeM's given the right info, in terms of what is available within
Microsoft Antispyware beta1.

However--this isn't an easy process at all. One of the better ways to get
a handle on startup settings is the free vbs script found here:

http://www.silentrunners.org/

This is maintained--i.e. it is regularly updated. There are a surprising
number of possible places, and new ones are found with some regularity.
Click to expand...
 
It's among the best--sysinternals has something that does this as well--I'm
not sure whose is better--probably run both! It has an "infection" marker
which can be confusing--it just marks departures from the default for some
areas. So the marker is worth checking out--but you don't need to be
immediately alarmed.

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