a-squared HiJackFree is a particular system that examines critically all types of Spyware, Adware, HiJackers, Trojans and Worms. The program helps you discover, examine and take off Malware manually. It offers consistently protection from trojans, backdoors, keylogers and rootkits. The program offers a long-lasting background guard insurance against new Dialer and scans the harddisk for dialers. It can supervise all types of Autoruns on your system and commands all Explorer and Browser plugins (BHOs, Toolbars). a-squared HiJackFree can supervise all running Processes and their associated modules. It commands all Services, even those Windows doesn't display and can view open ports and the associated listening processes. The program can view all DNS entries in the hosts file and can supervise installed Layered Service Providers (LSPs). It lists all running processes and shows useful information at the details pane.
a-squared HiJackFree has Open Ports which shows all local open ports and the processes which listens on the ports so you can fast see which processes must be shut down. Autoruns can view and edit all autorun entries and lists all programs which are run at the same time by the autorun start menu folder. It can also be used to start processes like the default screensavers. Services shows which services are installed and started and to the Windows Service Manager it shows the full path to the executable service file in the list to help identifying potential harmful services. Explorer-and Browsers-Addons permits you to view and edit plugins and addons of the Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer. LSP Protocols shows all installed Layered Service providers which are network drivers. Hosts File is loaded into memory at startup, then Windows checks the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers. It redirect add network server names to localhost to avoid ads on websites.
a-squared HiJackFree has Active-X that shows all installed Active-X modules (DLLs) on the system and invalid references which can be removed. Quarantine is used when you don't know if a program is really malicious or not and in such cases is useful to eliminate the file or autorun, but you can keep a backup copy. Check the "Save Backup" when killing or removing a task at the Processes or Ports lists. Online Analysis helps you to see which autoruns, processes, addons or open ports are harmful and you just click the "Refresh Online Data" to get the online analysis directly at the program or you can click the "Online Analysis" button to see a whole analysis web page.
