A small review of HijackThis

August 20th, 2008 | by admin |

Hijack This! is one of the tools I was first introduced to when I encountered a hacker in my PC.HijackThis, is a freeware spyware-removal tool for Windows originally created by Merijn Bellekom, and later sold to Trend Micro.Latest release is 2.0.2.Last revised on July 7, 2007.Supported Platforms are 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista.

Features:
HijackThis is a great malware removal tool, but it’s not for the average user. The list it generates is full of innocent or harmless entries and items that should be there. Its main intent is to show you what’s what, not make a determination of what’s actually a threat–so utilizing it effectively requires a fair amount of knowledge. You can select items on the list and have the program delete them, so if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can create quite a mess despite the automatic backup function that allows you to restore items you’ve removed. HijackThis’s other features include a handy process viewer and an ignore list that you can place items you’ve deemed as innocent to so they’re not scanned in the future.

Conclusions:
It is, in my opinion, a required utility for any computer that accesses the internet. It is excellent.