It's probably safe to assume color support in terminals without
linking against and checking with ncurses.

diff -u -r ../thc-hydra-8.4/hydra.c ./hydra.c
--- ../thc-hydra-8.4/hydra.c	2017-01-27 17:19:18.000000000 +0100
+++ ./hydra.c	2017-01-31 13:37:34.496298083 +0100
@@ -2622,10 +2622,6 @@
       colored_output = 0;
     }
   }
-#else
-  //don't want border line effect so disabling color output
-  //if we are not sure about the term
-  colored_output = 0;
 #endif
 
   if (debug)