I just did a quick scan on my PC with Malwarebytes. Everything turned out clean except for a registry data ( refer to attachment )
Should it be removed or ignored? I see regedit.exe in the mix and i got confused on what to do.
This keeps reappearing when I scan with "Malwarebytes:"
"Registry Data Items Infected:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorerNoActiveDesktopChanges (Hijack.DisplayProperties) -> Bad: (1) Good: (0) -> No action taken."
I remove it and it will appear aging some time later??
Last coupla days, since the update to Malwarebyte's 1.39 (for Vista HP x64), it's been finding this "threat" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftActive SetupInstalled Components{y479c6d0-otrw-u5gh-s1ee-e0ac10b4e555} (Generic.Bot.H) Does anyone recognize this? Is it a false positive, or something I should allow it to "repair"?
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Win 7 compatible - have used this and deleted all 1200 entries it found. It makes a backup - been running for several hours and reboots with no probs. Also working fine so far on my Vista x64 and Win 7 x86 installs. After cleaning you need to shut the app. and reopen it for it to find it's backups. (Easy to find them by hand - it can compress them to.7z files, too ). Have used their regdefrag a lot - identical scans and results to the Auslogics and Glary versions- so use whichever defragger you already have. WARNING: not recommended to defrag registry across drives.
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