Rogue HiJackThis

Merijn has posted a warning on http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ today.
"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. "
P.S. In spite of the last sentence, I cannot reach Merijn at www.merijn.org--at least not now, but can at the http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ URL as mentioned.

 

Odd that Merijn has just now posted that. The fake, Hijack-this.net has been around for quite some time. Also strange, is that it's still coming up under Xoftspy, and he mentions the list. Xoftspy was derated from the list 12-7-04.

 

noahdfear--I think Merijn is more concerned with registration of the name HIJACK-THIS.NET as a Domain than with what is offered at the site.