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Trend Micro HijackThis (exe): HijackThis lists the contents of key areas of the Registry and hard drive--areas that are used by both legitimate programmers and hijackers. The program is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks. It does not target specific programs and URLs, only the methods used by hijackers to force you...; Tags: Trend Micro Inc., HijackThis, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Software downloads 2007-12-11
Trend Micro buys HijackThis, launches SiteAdvisor competitor: Trend Micro buys HijackThis, launches SiteAdvisor competitorFile downloads infectedThat's interesting. According to McAfee both the Zip and Executable versions of the new version 2 of the HiJackThis_v2 file are infected with the W32/Generic.worm!p2p virus; sub type: Internet worm. That's not a very good start for Trend Micro taking...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, McAfee Inc., HiJackThis_v2, virus, HijackThis, Trend Micro Inc., McAfee SiteAdvisor; Discussion threads 2007-03-15
Trend Micro buys HijackThis, launches SiteAdvisor competitor: Trend Micro has acquired HijackThis, the freeware spyware-removal program created by Merijn Bellekom. Financial terms of the deal, believed to be all-cash, were not released. This is the second transaction between Trend Micro and Bellekmom, following the companys purchase of CWShredder, a standalone utility used to remove the...; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, Web site development, SECURITY, HijackThis, SiteAdvisor, spyware, Trend Micro Inc.; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Trend Micro HijackThis beta (exe): Trend Micro HijackThis is a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file settings from your computer. Hijack This makes no separation between safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to selectively remove items from your scan results identified as malicious...; Tags: Trend Micro Inc., HijackThis, Productivity, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security; Software downloads 2007-03-14
New malware poses as WGA validation and notification: A new piece of very nasty malware has been recently discovered on spyware help forums, first here and again here. The file name is wgavn.exe and it creates a service named "Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification", as seen in this line in the HijackThis log. O23 - Service: Windows Genuine...; Tags: firewall, HijackThis; Blog posts 2006-06-29

HJTHotkey (exe): This program is designed to speed up the researching of items in a HijackThis log once it has been posted onto a forum or from a log file. It will run in the system tray and when a hotkey/shortcut key is pressed, it will copy the word that has been...; Tags: Toolbar, HijackThis; Software downloads 2005-12-29
HijackThis rides again: HijackThis rides againHijack This updateDo not understand this story. Feel this old news, unless the mentioned version has been out in Beta?; Tags: HijackThis; Discussion threads 2005-04-06
HijackThis rides again: A new version of HijackThis just came out, toting along some new features that will really help you clean out your computer. HijackThis already enjoys a great reputation as an essential tool for finding out what's on your computer. The new version adds tools, including a process manager and hosts...; Tags: HijackThis; Blog posts 2005-04-06

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Windows Defender (version 1593): Microsoft Windows Defender is perhaps the best free antispyware application we looked at this year, but we disagree with Microsoft's aggressive need to verify our Windows license--not once but twice--before allowing us the opportunity to download and install Windows Defender. Given that it's a free app, we would prefer that...; Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Microsoft Windows Defender, Windows Defender, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.; Product reviews 2007-12-13
Sunbelt Software: Google search results delivering massive malware attacks: Sunbelt Software: Google search results delivering massive malware attacksOutdatedThe rating only reflects the state of the Web site when McAfee was there to scan it. It was in one of Robert Vamosi's blogs on CNET awhile back that phishers had started targeting legitimate sites because of the success of...; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, SEARCH, Google Inc., malware, Google Search, Sunbelt Software, Google Search Result, search result, massive malware attack; Discussion threads 2007-11-27
Bustin' malware!: Bustin' malware!Seems like alot of work.It does not have to be that way. Other options exist.Free AVsBoth Avast! from Alwil and AVG are good, free-for-home-use AVs. I like Avast's automatic update, though the need for email reregistration and the recent habit of the software to demand restarts after each...; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Web browsers, SpyBot, AVG, malware, Trend Micro Inc., anti-spyware; Discussion threads 2007-07-09
Bustin' malware!: Whenever a Windows PC starts to misbehave - running slow, crashing, locking up, displaying odd messages and so forth - there are chance that the problem is down to some sneaky malware that's made it onto the system. At these times there are a few tools that I bring out...; Tags: Thoughts, Software, Security; Blog posts 2007-07-09
How to fully de-gunk a PC of Crapware: How to fully de-gunk a PC of CrapwareApple Troll keeps on his topic - NTNTUse X-Lite Mega pack to avoid installing QT and iTunesUse X-Lite Mega pack to avoid installing QT and iTunes or Real Player. Real Player is the most horrible application I've ever seen in the way...; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, TCP/IP, Apple QuickTime, TCP Optimizer, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Crapware, Quick Time, PC; Discussion threads 2007-06-18
Posting your Microsoft license keys to Web not the brightest thing to do: Posting your Microsoft license keys to Web not the brightest thing to doIt appears to be posting license keys for other software tooIt appears to be reading license key store and posting license keys of non-microsoft products too.Posting reports on the Web's a bad idea...... but Belarc Adviser is...; Tags: Channel management, Patches, Tools & Techniques, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Joe Cracker, Web, Joe, software; Discussion threads 2007-04-16
Windows Defender: Microsoft Windows Defender is perhaps the best free antispyware application we looked at this year, but it's lacking when compared to brand-name antivirus-plus-antispyware solutions. We also disagree with Microsoft's aggressive need to verify our Windows license not once but twice before allowing us the opportunity to download and install Windows...; Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Defender, Microsoft Windows, Windows Defender, Microsoft Corp.; Product reviews 2007-03-15
News to know: Google on search privacy; IE7 hole; Ubuntu gallery: Notable headlines:Google adding search privacy protections. Official Google Blog on privacy.Garett Rogers: Google Talk gadget right coming very soon. Techmeme discussion.Microsoft probes possible IE 7 phishing hole.Ryan Naraine: Apple bumper patch vindicates hackers. Trend Micro buys HijackThis, launches SiteAdvisor competitor.OpenBSD hit by critical IPv6 flaw.Donna Bogatin: Hillary Clinton, Democrats lead...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, search privacy, TechMeme, Ubuntu, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Google Inc.; Blog posts 2007-03-15
Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojan: My good friend and colleague in the spyware fighting business, Patrick Jordan, aka Webhelper on the forums, has been under a DDoS attack since June 16 at his website, webhelper4u.com. I'm not linking to his site in order to conserve his bandwidth. Here's what he posted.Updated: 19 June, 2006...; Tags: DollarRevenue.com, distributed denial of service, anti-spyware; Blog posts 2006-06-19
Spyware pushers tricks of the trade or how to trash a machine with one bundle of spyware: I often hear questions asked about why do spyware pushers trash machines with their large bundles of garbage-ware and how do they do it. Last year I wrote about Spyware Tricks, including the money trail. Nearly all of the top 10 spyware tricks of 2005 involved affiliate's distributing spyware...; Tags: spyware, DollarRevenue; Blog posts 2006-05-30
Spyware Interrogator--Tech Edition (exe): The only All-In One utility designed for technicians to research, identify and remove security threats to include malware. This is not another anti-spyware application, but a research tool that provides: Alternate Data Stream Scanning, Intelligent Real-time HijackThis Log analyzer, Live Internet Communication traffic monitoring, Process Killer with respawn prevention and...; Tags: Malware, SSI Ltd., Anti-spyware, SpywareData.com, SSI Tech Edition, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security; Software downloads 2006-04-28
DirectRevenue's dirty laundry is out of the closet and does it ever stink: Two days ago DirectRevenue was hit with a lawsuit by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The 76 page Affirmation of Justin Brookman PDF outlined the outrageous practices of DirectRevenue including evidence of their knowledge that the software was being installed without user consent, evidence showing DirectRevenue was closely...; Tags: DirectRevenue; Blog posts 2006-04-06