Yes, [@d adams], if and when I have ever run [ UnHackMe ], I had to go away for a day between steps to have any confidence that it finished a particular step, then I had to carefully take the time to read each line, one at a time, of endless lines of results, stop and Google-search any unknowns ( yeah, open an Internet browser and portal during an infection scan, oh my! ), try to figure out what to ignore or what to take action on, then tell UnHackMe to take the next step, and then I had to go away for another day, come back the next day, and review that next step, and so on … by the time I thought that it might be finished, I dunno, windering if I have to reboot a couple of times or not, I had absolutely no idea what had transpired over the course of days, and I gave up, I rebooted in [ Safe Mode ], I used free [ MSConfig ] and free SysInternals [ AutoRuns ] and other free tools to remove any active participation of [ UnHackMe ] from my computer, then I rebooted in [ Normal Mode ], and moved on with my life, sorry and sad for the meaningless loss of time to no productive advantage.
Alternatives:
– Free [ JRT Junk Removal Tool v8.1.0.4 2017-07-10 ], I know it’s getting old, but it still works, and quickly ( it was acquired by Malwarebytes and killed ), there are other free tools from BleepingComputer, I especially like [ Temp File Cleaner by Old Timer ], too.
– Free [ AdWCleaner ] now from Malwarebytes, also reasonably quick, the only Malwarebytes product of any value anymore, it’s also something they acquired, not something they invented, BUT beware of it dinging other utilities that are competitive to Malwarebytes, like IObit and Auslogics, so uncheck them in the results to keep them, or else Malwarebytes will remove the competition ( ! ), AND beware to uncheck the [ Settings ], [ Basic Repair Actions ] that control networking, because they will isolate our network computers from each other, and prevent our own intentional sharing in-house, and it may require removing and re-installing all network drivers and networking protocols to re-establish in-house networking – Malwarebytes protection is overkill, but hey, they can claim maximum safety, I suppose.
– Free [ Super Anti Spyware ] takes a long time but shows us what it’s doing and we can easily toggle what’s going to be deleted from the results list of what’s found.
– Free [ Spybot Search & Destroy v1 ], v2 sux, but v1 still works neat and clean, shows what it’s doing, and allows quick toggle of what to kill or keep.
Note: I use all programs that I suggest here as terminating when done, none are resident when I am using my computer normally, I only run them to accomplish a task, then I kill them and reboot, and they are gone from active memory.
I am exploring free [ Kerish Doctor ] as an active program because it watches insertions, and offers immediate blocking, seems -w-a-y- more user friendly and PC friendly than not-free Symantec Norton Security, not free Intel McAfee Security, or any other program I’ve tried, please explore and share your own findings, folks – thanks.
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Sadly, [ UnHackMe ] has never matured to have sophisticated intelligence, it doesn’t seem to know what to do, and it depends on the user interpreting anything and everything found in an endless set of list results that seem to include everything in the metropolitan area.
Nor does [ UnHackMe ] have a user interface that is standard with universal program presentations established since the first IBM PC programs, and even most Windows programs ( before ribbon craziness and free-floating un-resizable popups ).
Sorry Dmitry, but it’s time for a complete re-write of the user interface, which few programers enjoy because it takes 80% of their programming time, way more than the efforts put into the underlying active programming.
You may by now intuitively understand your own program’s inner workings and the meaning of anything on screen, but as this discussion thread shows, newbies, folks familiar with other programs, cannot figure out what’s going on in [ UnHackMe ], and we are not invited in by the program to try to figure it out.
You have the opposite problem that Spybot Search & Destroy has.
Spybot Search & Destroy went from standard-and-easy v1, to random-and-confusing v2.
You have the opportunity to go from random-and-confusing UnHackMe v1-through-11, to standard-and-easy UnHackMe v12, please return here to let us help you with that.
Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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