HijackThis is a utility designed to report on registry settings and files on your computer. It was created by Merijn Bellec and was purchased by Trend Micro in 2007.
The logs generated by the program are considered to be a kind of generally accepted standard at various conferences dedicated to information security.
Features of HijackThis
HijackThis has built-in malware detection and removal capabilities. Several tools are available to manually remove malware.
The main functionality of the utility is mainly focused on searching for and detecting potentially dangerous infiltrations in programs designed for browsing the WAN (browsers).
The specifics of HijackThis is that it does not automatically delete anything from the databases, but compiles lists of all the suspicious objects found and offers the user to clean it up themselves.
HijackThis Features
- Takes up very little hard disk space;
- almost does not consume system resources;
- scans the entire system within seconds;
- provides information about each detected element;
- analyzes the detected items;
- it can generate an exception list;
- process manager built into the program;
- hosts file viewer.
