Fake HiJackThis

[2ffat]

The following is from merjin.org, the creator of HiJackThis.

Just a short note on the domain HIJACK-THIS.NET: this is not mine! It has been registered by XoftSpy (who are also on the Rogue Antispyware List on SpywareWarrior.com) and they are luring people into downloading their software believing it is HijackThis. Also, they have registered a few AdWords at Google leading to the same result. I have contacted them about this and received no reply (how surprising). Google can't do much about it since there is no copyright being breached. We'll see where this goes.
In the meantime, if you want to download any of my programs, the official domain is and always will be www.merijn.org.

James P. Cottingham
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[LloydSev]

Unbelievable.

Computer/Network Technician
CCNA

 

[aquias]

Actually Lloyd, I'm amazed that it wasn't tried sooner...

 

[MasterRacker]

This trick has been around with fake AV sites for years. There are also a number of fake adware removers that are made look extremely like Ad-Aware.

Just make a difficult job even harder for the rest of us.

<sub>Jeff
[purple]It's never too early to begin preparing for [/purple]International Talk Like a Pirate Day

I was not born cynical - I earned my cynicism through careful observation of the world around me.</sub>

 

[diogenes10]

Here is a checklist that can help in knowing about good/bad antispyware products:

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

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[billcmh]

Thanks for the heads up. I guess this is your fault for not registering every even close sounding domain name including misspelled versions

Yea, we know Firefox is great. Some of us have customers who have no choice but to run IE, Blasting IE in every post is not helpful

 

[MasterRacker]

Huh? billcmh, did you reply to the correct post?

<sub>Jeff
[purple]It's never too early to begin preparing for [/purple]International Talk Like a Pirate Day

I was not born cynical - I earned my cynicism through careful observation of the world around me.</sub>