Did they change the name of Hijack This to Alertspy or is Alertspy > something else?
Nope; it's still Hijack This and is available at
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April 22, 2005: Just a short note on the domain HIJACK-THIS.NET: this is not mine! It has been registered by an affiliate of 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. 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
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The domain hijack-this.net is hyping some "Alert Spy" product; this must be where you got tricked.
Anyways, on the topic of Spyware, I use AdAware and Spybot S&D and recommend them both. Sometimes one catches something that the other doesn't. Also keep in mind that if you have spyware in memory, it often can't be removed until you reboot your computer into safe mode.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And for a long time, they were each accusing the other one of being a spy because the characteristics in each. But a warning when you first start either program tells you about that propensity they have and how to deal with it. PAT]