Hitman Pro 3.0.0.2515 Beta / 2.7 RC2 / 2.6

Hitman Pro does not need to install any third party sofware. It is a stand alone program which looks for unknown and suspicious files, giving each of them a score using a patent pending technique. Unknown and suspicious files are automatically identified by online identification servers. This means no software on your system.
Hitman Pro does not scan your system alphabetically, it scans disk objects in physical order on your disk. This also significantly lowers the stress on your hardware. Furthermore, a lot of analysis tasks are performed concurrently by deploying tasks multi-threaded. And if you own a multi-core processor, this software can efficiently use the extra cores in order to increase enumeration speed even more.
Hitman Pro doesn’t need to scan every file on your system. Why not? We have profiled standard systems so it knows which files are good. Also, Hitman actually focuses on finding objects that don’t behave like good software. Software that does not follow trustworthy guidelines will automatically receive a higher score than software that is uninstallable by the user, identifyable, digitally signed, unencrypted, uncompressed, visible and accessible.
The engine also tries to find out where the software came from, how it got on your system and what other people say about it on the internet. That probably sounds common sense or seem impossible to some of you but we are certain you will be astonished on how well the scoring system works.
To remove malicious software the developers have also built a special removal engine that is capable of removing the toughest threats. A native NT application is capable of removing resilient threats before Windows starts. And of course, including corresponding references like registry keys and shortcuts. All without the need of updates and signatures.

Enhancements:
- Added Expert tool. Even though Hitman Pro was never designed for the experienced user, a lot of people asked for it. Users can now have complete insight and control over threat objects (files and registry keys).
- Added checkbox to disable automatic removal of threats (main screen). When unchecked, the Expert tool will be displayed after inspections. With the Expert tool users have full control of the detected threats. Note that threats are always added to the Expert threat cache.
- Added prelimenary support for Spy Sweeper 5. Note that Hitman is not capable of using it yet. It will only instruct Spy Sweeper 5 to shutdown and startup when inspecting the system (so it does not interfere with the other AntiSpyware applications). Hitman Pro version 2.5.1 will deliver Spy Sweeper 5 support (Webroot changed a lot and its not so easy to integrate it into Hitman).
- Improved "Improved spyware removal". This function helps the external antispyware application removing threats.
- Removed Hitman Pro AntiSpyware since its not compatible with the new internal functions and I decided not to migrate it. Instead, I will add my FuzzyLogic system to Hitman Pro 2.6. FuzzyLogic relies more on a rule set, rather than a lot of signatures. The Proof of Concept I have finished recently finds practically every known spyware and virusses. But its main task is to find yet unknown threats. People interested in FuzzyLogic can contact me for a demonstration.
- Rewrote the Quarantine. Hitman Pro is now way faster and efficient in quarantining threats. I also had to rebuild it to fit the Epxert tool (Expert quarantines threats before removing them).
- Added support for Internet Explorer 7. Hitman Pro was not able to download files when Users were running the beta version of Microsofts new browser. This has been fixed.
- Fixed a problem with SurfRight on systems that do not have NTFS on the Windows drive. SurfRight cannot be enabled when Windows is not installed on an NTFS drive. SurfRight relies on NTFS permissions to protect the user against attacks through known and unknown vulnerabilities in internet applications. Protection is based on the "Least User Access" principle, a security model where Windows Vista relies on next year. Linux and Mac OS X obey this principle for years and Hitman Pro delivers it for Windows XP today (in fact, already since April 2005).
- Added support for Windows Live Messenger in the SurfRight control panel in Hitman Pro. Its mentioned properly now (previously it stated MSN Messenger).
- Updated Internet Explorer (SurfRight) icon to Internet Explorer 7 style.
- Improved SurfRight Helper. I changed the way files are opened from the SurfRight Helper. Also improved accuracy of the icons in the download list (sometimes SurfRight Helper could not locate a fitting icon).
- Added support for Spyware Doctor 4.0. Had to rewrite some code so Hitman is able to shutdown Spyware Doctor, when needed.
- Changed enumeration of installed programs. This is now done only when NOD32 is not installed (and is about to be installed).