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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master
NRT-0085 Computer Security Software Acquisition:
(Anyone else wonder WHY a company would acquire -pay for- something that was free?)
Antivirus specialist Trend has acquired HijackThis, a tool used to remove spyware from Windows PCs. HijackThis is a free tool developed by Dutch student Merijn Bellekom. The tool is mostly used by technical users to pinpoint spyware infections on Windows machines and helps remove them. It has been downloaded more than 10 million times, according to Trend Micro. Trend Micro is readying a new beta version of HijackThis that works with Windows VISTA and Internet Explorer 7. Other additions include an "AnalyzeThis" feature that lets users see the prevalence of threats detected on their PCs.
(CNET News 14MAR07)
Last Modified: Sunday, 18-Mar-2007 23:02:25 EST