Hi,
I use HijackThis very often, and on other people's computers, never had any problem with it. I do notice that there can be a 10 to 15 second "delay" from start of it till it ends detection and then I can check things in the boxes....
None of the programs would remove anything to affect the other- sometimes, there may be partly removed items that users have messed around with prior to using the good tools, that could cause a problem. You have tried redownloading twice, so i dont think that is the problem. HJT only can make easily found backups if run from a permanent folder, such as one you make...or My Documents, My Downloads, so on....You can simply drag and drop the Hijackthis.exe file to another location if you are running it from a temp location.
None of the programs remove anything automatically, either....
until you push the yes button. Did you use HJT yourself to take out things?
The other two tools also make and save backups until you manually delete them, so anything removed should still be available. Neither of them would remove anything from HijackThis, at least this would be a "first" to me.... SeekNClean I am not familiar with. SeekNClean info says it finds and deletes over 40 space wasting files....which makes it a logical suspect, too. Perhaps, try putting back what it removed or at least, posting in a reply what files it did remove might help.....
There is some malware that can interfere with programs like HJT, ....which is what I suspect. Could you please post a Hijack log for review?
I use HijackThis very often, and on other people's computers, never had any problem with it. I do notice that there can be a 10 to 15 second "delay" from start of it till it ends detection and then I can check things in the boxes....
None of the programs would remove anything to affect the other- sometimes, there may be partly removed items that users have messed around with prior to using the good tools, that could cause a problem. You have tried redownloading twice, so i dont think that is the problem. HJT only can make easily found backups if run from a permanent folder, such as one you make...or My Documents, My Downloads, so on....You can simply drag and drop the Hijackthis.exe file to another location if you are running it from a temp location.
None of the programs remove anything automatically, either....
until you push the yes button. Did you use HJT yourself to take out things?
The other two tools also make and save backups until you manually delete them, so anything removed should still be available. Neither of them would remove anything from HijackThis, at least this would be a "first" to me.... SeekNClean I am not familiar with. SeekNClean info says it finds and deletes over 40 space wasting files....which makes it a logical suspect, too. Perhaps, try putting back what it removed or at least, posting in a reply what files it did remove might help.....
There is some malware that can interfere with programs like HJT, ....which is what I suspect. Could you please post a Hijack log for review?
