Beware ... Rogue use of Merijn's HijackThis©

[muckshifter]

See the article here: SpywareGuide

and Merijn's comments at Merijn.org

Legitimate download of Merijn's HijackThis© is available from here; direct download here: http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip

In addition, you can get a complete installer that installs HijackThis to C:\Program Files\HijackThis, making an entry in the start menu and also providing a desktop shortcut from http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/HJTsetup.exe

 

[Adywebb]

The little b*ggers!! - not surprising some people get caught out.

Just shows how careful you have to be - I only ever use Merijn or TomCoyote which has a simple quick start guide for new users