[d19r59m]

I downloaded two programs a couple months ago from IObit.com, They are called Advanced Windows Care 2 Personal and SmartDefrag they are both freebies and mt PC is running alot faster and smoother. The problem is I have a hard time imagining these programs as being free, are they spyware or they programs that could really cause me problems in the long run. Could somebody who is computer savey check these programs out and see what they are and how good of programs these really are.Thanks ahead of time,d19r59m

[Spr33]

both programs seem finedon't be afraid of freeware

[SpiritWind]

{size:18px}[/size]:D Hi : Having never heard of "IObit", I went to their website and spent some time reading info on the "main" site AND on their Support Forums at www.iobit.com/Forums/ ; would encourage you to do likewise . The "Advanced WindowsCare..." appears to be a "Jack-Of-All-Trades, Master-Of-None" type of program. I certainly would NOT trust it to detect and/or quarantine spyware. For antiSPYWARE Protection, would recommend ONLY using those that antiSPYWARE Expert Eric Howes considers "Trustworthy" @ www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm#trustworthy ; from that list I have the FREE version of "SUPERantispyware", AVG Antispyware, & Ad-Aware Personal . I prefer "standalone" registry cleaner(s), NOT those that are part of some "security suite" AND for a "Temporary Files Cleaner", much better would be the Good & FREE "ATF Cleaner", developed by antiSPYWARE EXPERT "ATribune" from www.atribune.org/content/view/25/2/ . The "SmartDefrag" appears to be an unreliable "Beta" program; better to use the one developed by antiSPYWARE Expert "Rejzor" called "Power Defragmenter GUI 2.0..." from www.excessive-software.eu.tt . IObit is a new company in China; communist country companies I do not trust .

[techie4fun]

[quote name='d19r59m']I downloaded two programs a couple months ago from IObit.com, They are called Advanced Windows Care 2 Personal and SmartDefrag they are both freebies and mt PC is running alot faster and smoother. > > The problem is I have a hard time imagining these programs as being free, are they spyware or they programs that could really cause me problems in the long run. Could somebody who is computer savey check these programs out and see what they are and how good of programs these really are.> > Thanks ahead of time,> > d19r59mYou should be fine with Advanced Windows Care. If your computer crashes, it wasn't that program. As for smartdefrag from iobit.com, I have NEVER heard of them before. Never trust free downloads from sites as they aren't always guarunteed to be spyware free like the claims. If you would rather be safe than sorry, head out to http://www.download....yware/2001-20234-0.html?tag=dir and check out their products, and read the user reviews on everything. People will generally write in their review whether or not the program they downloaded crippled their computer with spyware or not.The user above me also posted some really good links : http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogueanti-spyware.htm#trustworthy http://www.excessive...tware.eu.tt/You should check all of them out.Use (windows) defragmenter instead of smartdefrag.

[BADVIBES258]

I had the misfortune of getting Advanced windowscare also. It allowed my computer to operate. however it configured over 32,000 items in my system. then i had optimized zone alarm and it would not let me online:x Then I went to scan something with my lexmark all-in-one and i still had dll issues. so i tried to reinstall and class manager? would not let me. so i contacted lexmark and they told me to set my mscnfg to safemode to install. No good. so i tried to rollback to just before i installed A.W.C. and found i was missing zpy.dll. so i got out my trusty recovery disk from emachines and tried to reboot from scratch. it had corrupted my d: partion. and would not let me reformat the c: partition.:evil: so i call emachines and told them. they had me format from the bios menu. then i found out the driver info for my video card and audio was not on the disk but the d: partion. called them and they are sending the drivers and other program disks in the next few days. (btw I'm still down. I'm on an old 2000 hp pavilian celeron 64Mb ram pc with win ME) so I'm out of a weeks worth of good internet. and lost several hours worth of music and video. lost several hours worth of downloaded software (zone alarm, avg anti-spyware and anti-virus, Avs video converter tools, msn live, google earth, internet download manager. About 4 personal wallpapers and 5 screen savers, and hundreds of muscle car pictures. not to mention my own pictures of family, pets, project cars. and 3 months worth of product orders for my work.) and the fear that i was out a tower(at least the mother board and harddrive) and that I was out a thousand bucks I really didn't have. The damn thing with all the add-on came from some lotto winning I came into plus a small savings i had going, so to prevent this from happening again so easily I am getting a 300 gb usb harddrive to load the os and any new software on and boot first from it. If it is ok then I will integrade it in to the internal hd. so don't trust anything till you try it. I am also going to upgrade the HP and use it for a trial pc. then If it fails i can at least rebuild it. so research you product first. if someone tells you to check it out and they have it for a while you could probly trust it. and Internet download manager changed my SHELL32.DLL and my KERNEL32.DLL That is what got this whole thing started. (avg anti-virus told me) but was still up and running.

[d19r59m]

Thanks to all who have replied to my posting, but some of the feed back is good and some is bad 50/50. So this has left just as concerned and confused as before. Iobit programs or no Iobit programs, both programs are by the same company (Advanced WindowsCare 2 and SmartDefrag, this one is a beta program). Please if there is any more info out there on these two programs that can help me make the decision on weather to keep or get rid of, point me in the the right direction.Thanks,d19r59m

[james6324]

I have used Advanced WindowsCare 2 for many months without any problems. It seems to work quite well. However, when I tried SmartDefrag, my computer would not shut down. When I uninstalled it, my computer worked fine. A good, free defrager is http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/ . _