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Please Be Advised:
There are ads on TV for things to diagnose & fix computer woes. They spew a plethora of rubbish, say they will cure everything under the sun, all the many problems & infections everyone must, already, have (whether they know it or not), that they will speed up your slow, freezing machine, make it run perfectly (again) clean it 100% and even, make your internet connection faster.
There are, @ least, 3 of them... things such as "Finallyfast.com"... wish I could remember the others... FixMyPC or something. Anyway...
DO NOT GET SUCKED IN BY THESE THINGS!!
Do not buy into their rhetoric.
It is crap, misleading, in many ways, falsehoods & plays on naïve, innocent Folks w/ scare tactics & intimidation & a promise of a silver bullet.
Stay the hell away from them, like the plague!!
Do not try them, touch them, contact them or buy anything from them!!
Take this from an IT Pro; these ads should not be allowed on air... they should not be able to pass ethics under the FCC or CRTC.
Regards,
Drew
Last edited by Drew; 03-24-2012 at 04:35 PM.
Administrator
Thanks for throwing it out there, Drew. If anyone had seen those "video professor" commercials up here in New York and New England, you should also check this out: Video Professor Tries To Bully Washington Post, Fails | TechCrunch
Much worse than robo calls, a lot of these infomercials about computers prey on people suffering from insomnia. Stay away, for the most part.
Sincerely,
Mike Fara
Microsoft MVP
Windows 8 Forums
Junior Member
Sounds like the next step in the cold call 'We've detected you have a virus, but follow these steps and we'll help you' scam.
Senior Member
Thread Starter The effort to find those culprits is intense & struggling. As scams go, it's vicious.
Drew
Tier 2 Moderator
I believe the 3rd one you're talking about is "MyCleanPC", which has been airing here in Tucson quite a bit lately.
Member
Any time you see a 'wonder drug', be it for computers or other, you must be careful. There are no such shortcuts in life. People who fall for such rubbish do it to themselves.
Senior Member
Thread Starter Yes, Adam, that's it... MyCleanPC.BS
Envy you living in Tucson... I used to & wish I still was... love the desert & would be able to ride all year round & be warm.
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Just trying to (help) save ppl from "themselves", lol
Drew
Last edited by Drew; 03-25-2012 at 02:14 PM.
Member
SNAKEOIL salesmen! Stay clear away from such applications!
Senior Member
Hi
The truth is that there is software that you can get for free that will keep your computer running fine.
CCleaner
Malware bytes
Defraggler
MSE
Revo Uninstaller
That's about all you need.
I use all of these and almost never have problems other then the ones I cause myself!
I do get quite a few of those.
Mike
Member
I have been using ccleaner for many years but not its registry cleaner. Also ccleaner has caused some problems with win7 on my pc. Malwarebytes is helpfull only if you do a FULL SCAN. I agree that there are many freebies that are very good but stay clear away from the ones that mess with your registry.
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