Virus check add-on - 'Speed up your computer' - Good or?

[maxcorrigan]

14 minutes ago, transam said:

10Bit uninstaller is very good...

Yes i used 10bit uninstaller to try and get rid of Avast it said it was uninstalled completely but unfortunately it was still lurking in the background hence the Avast uninstaller!  

[VBF]

1 minute ago, transam said:

Over the years I have tried them all, well the big names...There was to much crap with many of them...I have found my happy medium where the stuff on my PC does not interact with others...No ploblems..Only one program is paid for...And no ads too...

With Norton, i get no crapware, the only emails I get are ones I've agreed to, and the only popups are very discreet ones when it finds a problem (ie, blocks something).

 

And @maxcorrigan A/V programs are hard to uninstall because if they were too easy, a virus could be constructed to uninstall them.

 

When I run CCleaner's Registry Cleaner, it never cleans this entry "ActiveX/COM Issue    InProcServer32\C:\Program Files\Norton Security with Backup\Engine\22.14.2.13\......." unless I go into Norton's settings and effectively unlock its tamper prevention.

[transam]

6 minutes ago, maxcorrigan said:

Yes i used 10bit uninstaller to try and get rid of Avast it said it was uninstalled completely but unfortunately it was still lurking in the background hence the Avast uninstaller!  

I did have Avast...It has totally gone now...Just persevere..But, it points out that a program like ____ "may" cause a problem  that we don't need when trying to find our PC "heaven"..

[VBF]

@transam and @petermik  A question for one or other of you.......

 

I've just tried MalwareBytes AdwCleaner (7.2.0) as you seem to like. Trouble is that it finds several of my Chrome extensions (from the official Chrome Web Store) as PUPs.

Example: "Shortcuts for Google"

 

This is odd because neither Norton nor the regular MalwareBytes finds them.  I think they're false positives, and when I have time later, shall do some research. I'd be interested to hear your take(s) on that please.

[transam]

18 minutes ago, VBF said:

@transam and @petermik  A question for one or other of you.......

 

I've just tried MalwareBytes AdwCleaner (7.2.0) as you seem to like. Trouble is that it finds several of my Chrome extensions (from the official Chrome Web Store) as PUPs.

Example: "Shortcuts for Google"

 

This is odd because neither Norton nor the regular MalwareBytes finds them.  I think they're false positives, and when I have time later, shall do some research. I'd be interested to hear your take(s) on that please.

When MB does it's thing you can look and un-check stuff related to other programs you use. It wants to delete ASC stuff, l just un-check it..I only use MB to show important stuff..Thankfully it never finds stuff my daily programs takes care of..

[VBF]

8 hours ago, transam said:

When MB does it's thing you can look and un-check stuff related to other programs you use. It wants to delete ASC stuff, l just un-check it..I only use MB to show important stuff..Thankfully it never finds stuff my daily programs takes care of..

Thanks @transam I've now had a chance to explore the options in AdwCleaner and search around the 'net for more info.

 

I ran AdwCleaner and let it remove the Chrome extensions, ran it again to find them gone - correct.  They are indeed now missing from my Chrome browser  - again correct.

 

In that respect, it's working correctly, so I reinstalled the extension I wanted (Shortcuts for Google) from the Chrome store, ran AdwCleaner again, and there it was, being reported as a PUP. 

 

Theoretically this is also correct and I do  realise that "PUP" is only a Potentially Unwanted Program, but I still do find it odd that valid extensions from the Chrome store are being marked as such.

 

That is what makes me question the veracity and usefulness  of AdwCleaner itself which is what I meant above when I said I thought it reported false positives.

[Aforek]

 

Avast free want that we buy it, I have Avast Internet security ( 20 € a year ) and not disturbed any more ; to get rid of Avast, only one way : use " avastclean.exe" http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/avast_software_uninstall_utility.html

 

above, I spoke of CCleaner, only for registry : cleaning is useless and dangerous : missing keys are more dangerous than useless keys

much better is to compress the registry, every three months : http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/tweaking_com_registry_compressor.html

 

every body has a different opinion: I just read an article which says that only Malwarebytes is useful, adwcleaner detects problems which are just names in registry but don't exist

as you see, who tells the truth ? : what I think is, don't clean too much and too often your system , Windows 10 is able to do many things by itself 

[transam]

24 minutes ago, Aforek said:

 

Avast free want that we buy it, I have Avast Internet security ( 20 € a year ) and not disturbed any more ; to get rid of Avast, only one way : use " avastclean.exe" http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/avast_software_uninstall_utility.html

 

above, I spoke of CCleaner, only for registry : cleaning is useless and dangerous : missing keys are more dangerous than useless keys

much better is to compress the registry, every three months : http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/tweaking_com_registry_compressor.html

 

every body has a different opinion: I just read an article which says that only Malwarebytes is useful, adwcleaner detects problems which are just names in registry but don't exist

as you see, who tells the truth ? : what I think is, don't clean too much and too often your system , Windows 10 is able to do many things by itself 

It's finding a happy medium which can take a long time to sort. A while back I had Avast and got rid of it totally.

 

Safety stuff programs may interact with each other, with my happy medium there is now no interaction, so a happy bunny..

[lvr181]

On 6/18/2018 at 11:12 AM, gjoo888 said:

I also defrag and free up disk space often

Just don't do it to a SSD drive.

[lvr181]

15 minutes ago, transam said:

adwcleaner detects problems which are just names in registry but don't exist

Do a regedit to check to be sure (only if you're 'competent' to do that - not for the faint of heart, one stuff up could be disasterous unless you know how to back up the registry), otherwise ask a computer 'specialist'  friend to help you.

HTH

[transam]

2 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

Do a regedit to check to be sure (only if you're 'competent' to do that - not for the faint of heart, one stuff up could be disasterous unless you know how to back up the registry), otherwise ask a computer 'specialist'  friend to help you.

HTH

Don't think that's my post.....

[lvr181]

2 minutes ago, transam said:

Don't think that's my post.....

My bad  

 

I quoted from a post you had quoted.