11 Mar

Posted by Blair in Security

Merijn has sold HijackThis to TrendMicro. The transaction happened 3-4 months ago, but you can now find a beta of the Trend version available here.

Three major changes that I notice, and don’t care for:

1) HijackThis ™ — it’s now trademarked, potentially restricting its use. How will it affect sites offering free help via HijackThis?

2 ) AnalyzeThis? Do I need to say more about automated scanners?

3) *Trend Micro does not officially support HiJackThis. Who will provide support?

Nosh

March 11th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
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Yeah, I'm a big HJT fan and assumed it was an open source thingie that Trend Micro had modded. I hate it when people eff around with tried and tested s/w. And Google has never failed me whenever I'm curious about exactly what a file does. Wish these commercial types would stop piggy-backing on the hard work of others. I'm sticking with 1.99
FastFred

March 12th, 2007 at 5:15 am
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They added support for IE7 and Vista. That's a definite plus that the old version didn't have.
coachwife6

March 13th, 2007 at 8:30 am
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Wow. I don't even know what to think. I will be interested in what others have to say.
User

March 13th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
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You could always use the older version. But that wont be updated. As merijn said. Hes too busy. Or you could get the updated version, that will have a lot of new features. Besides, it will always stay free. So whats wrong with that? CWShredder remained free.. and so will HJT.