HijackThis! sold to Trend Micro

[4cr0nDk]

There are alot of doubts (maybe paranoia) 'bout this sell in the support forums that have used hijackthis for a long time now....

Hijackthis have a lots of users using it and could be quite a damage for the rookie one. I doubt that trend create a departament that offer the amount of support that tool have in the forums, is to much work, personal training, to have a centralized site to do that, dumb when you already have a lots of sites that do that job.

I think that they're looking for publicity and maybe some money but nothing more. At the moment, representative people from trend are listening proposals in some forums like geekstogo and swi but who knows where all this end....



Regards

[nihil]

Yes, I seem to recall reading it had been downloaded 10,000,000 times.

Looking on the positive side, they are still providing CWShredder free?

Being the sort of guy that I am, I visited their site and looked at the licence agreement . Down in the small print it says for "personal use" so maybe they intend to bundle it with their corporate security suite and charge for supporting that?

I can also believe their suggestion that it is for them to gather data on malware trends. Corporates tend to keep attacks and infections quiet, whereas private users generally just want it fixed.

[brokencrow]

HJT's been getting "stale". It's been a couple of years since HJT got updated, hasn't it?

IceSword's a better app.

[nihil]

Yes, that's what Merijn was saying on his site. He hadn't updated in just over a year as he didn't have time due to his university work.

The new one on the Trend Micro site is 2.0 beta I believe, so that is new.