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To: Revolting cat!
CNET has good reviews of all such programs, but try to avoid downloading from there, as they wrap everything up in their own installer which carries free gifts of bloatware, adware and such.

Cannot be overstated. DO NOT DL from Cnet. You'll spend hours removing the junk they toss in.

Also, Ccleaner is a good cleanup product. In fact, everything I've tried from Piriform is good - recovered some inadvertently deleted photos from an SM card with Recuva, pretty good stuff.

41 posted on 09/03/2013 1:39:23 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: jeffc

Unfortunately, free gifts of toolbars, browser extensions, changes to your system and bloatware are the ‘new black’, and have been adopted by many software companies that have free versions of their products, as I have found last week, having to spend hours restoring my system after one careless download. Now IOBit Malware Fighter reminds me with every reboot that there is a new version and directs me to CNET (or download.com which is the same thing), and there is no way to download it pure. Oh yes, the ‘new version’ every week is another trick to tempt you to upgrade to a paid version, and to shower those free gifts on ya.


49 posted on 09/03/2013 1:52:53 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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