Archive for the ‘Junk’ Category
Are automatic registry cleaners safe to use?
Recently, I’ve been very hard-pressed to find a client’s computer without one of the available automatic registry cleaners (registry boosters) installed. I have my own opinion about these products, so I’d like to try to clear up any confusion, relating to these digital wonder drugs.
MyCleanPC.com and DoubleMySpeed.com are Scams
UPDATE 12-10-2009: I thought I had seen the last of the finallyfast.com TV commercials, but, last night, I saw another. Different ad copy, but all the same, lame premise.
As a geek and a friend to my customers, I have to let you know about the heavily-advertised MyCleanPC.com and DoubleMySpeed.com computer cleaning scams.
I had posted articles, a while back, about FinallyFast.com and Ascentive PC SpeedScan Pro. Just as I had suspected, this was a scam to install rogue security programs and spyware on your computer.
Screensavers, Smileys and Toolbars, Oh My!
When you touch a hot stove and pull your hand away, do you need to be told not to touch it again? My guess is no. Then why is it so hard for people to resist installing smileys, toolbars and screensavers, even after they’ve been told how bad they are?
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