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HijackThis 1.99.1 has just been awarded the 100% Quality And Clean Award by FileCluster! The download page is here.
Thanks FileCluster! :)

As some of you might have seen several IT news websites are offering Trend Micro HijackThis 2.00 beta. An official statement will be posted on their website soon, but since this is a public beta of theirs I figured it'd be best if I answered the question I'm going to get asked a lot, right now.
This is not fake, I sold HijackThis to TrendMicro. Their product incorporates all changes, updates and fixes that I was planning on adding in the v1.99.2 release. I made sure of that and I hope no one will be disappointed with it.
While TrendMicro does not officially support HijackThis yet, I expect they will once it goes final.

I sold HijackThis because I had been sitting on an unfinished update for over a year and I still could not make enough time to finish it. My uni classes are taking up a lot of time and I want to set my goals a bit wider than just the antispyware business (though I still love it). Sitting on an unfinished product until it becomes obsolete is not useful, so I decided to transfer the responsibility to TrendMicro (who have also taken care of my CWShredder) so they can give it proper attention and support. Where the will take HijackThis, I do not know - but I am sure they will respect its goals and what it stands for.

Like some of you might already know, Marcin (RubberDucky) from malwarebytes.org started a program that removes rogue antispyware programs. I have to admit I had been playing with the idea (mostly SmitRem) and I was very surprised to see Marcin release this. The program took off like a rocket and his database currently detects and removes 207 rogues!

This is really amazing and a superb job, and I recommend everyone paying him a visit and check it out. The freeware version is fully functional and the paid version has a resident components that can alert you immediately when a rogue is installing on the system.

Kazaa has updated its client again to version 3.2.7 (and, very briefly, 3.2.5), so in response I updated KazaaBegone to remove that as well. This new version 1.30 also prompts you to use Bullguard's own uninstaller to remove it, since it's hard for KazaaBG to remove a fully functional and installed firewall by itself.

Download KazaaBegone 1.30

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