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    Highjacked or Hijacked ?

    English isn't my first language.
    I see a post with the title "Highjacked??" of somebody who has malware-problems.
    Is this a spelling error of the word "Hijacked" or does it mean something else, like being hijacked high in the sky, a sort of combination of two existing words in one new word ?
    Last edited by ErikAlbert; October 13th, 2010 at 11:54 PM.
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    Generally you'll find hijack in far greater use.
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    The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed), shows "hijack" or "hi-jack" as the current forms, and "highjack" as the obsolete original form.
    Nick.

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    Thanks everybody, I'm wiser now.
    ErikAlbert - "Simplicity is always brilliant." - "Every software sucks, some even more than others."
    WinXPproSP3 secured by FirstDefense-ISR + Anti-Executable + Sandboxie + ShadowProtect - no scanners, no cleaning/registry software.
    I remove superfluous and evil objects, not because they are there, but because they weren't there.

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    me too
    Will update soon

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    I'm just older

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