Utilizing 'AutoRuns' To Catch Malware

Malware likes to survive- detect its survival attempts today! How do you know what is scheduled to start automatically on your Windows systems? Learn how to utilize freely available utilities to monitor the areas of a Windows system that malware may use to survive the boot sequence. In this paper, we will discuss how to monitor areas on a Windows system that are used to start processes at boot up and logon. We will look at scripting to automate the use of these utilities to monitor what is set to run automatically on Windows systems. Anti-virus and spyware software only detects what it knows about. With the tools and methods we discuss in this paper, you will be able to monitor what is set to start and be alerted to any changes. This information will provide you a better and faster approach to really determine what is happening when Windows systems start up.