Trend Micro acquired HijackThis
Trend Micro,one of the most well known antivirus and security software companies,has recently acquired HijackThis,a very useful and popular software tool,used for threat analytics and malware removal.
The company plans to announce the acquisition only on march 19-th,but a new version of HijackThis 2.00 beta,is already available for download on their site.So what was supposed to remain a secret was revealed to general public.
The new version won,t add nothing new,except minor fixes and updates.
Speculations were stopped by Merijn,s explanation posted three days ago:
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.
He also explains the reason why he sold the program:
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.
To those worried about log analysis, we have good news,nothing has changed at all. Security forums from all over the world still accept HijackThis logs.
Source:http://www.2-spyware.com/news/
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