1) The Windows Registry is very fragile, like a raw egg. Every time you handle it, you risk breaking it. Handle it enough, and it will break. 2) Due to the sheer size and complexity of the Windows registry, manually cleaning up redundant and invalid entries would be practically impossible. Registry cleaners try to automate the process of searching for orphaned entries, missing file references, and broken links inside the registry, and remove them. 3) A popular misconception is that the value of a registry cleaner exists by reducing “registry bloat”. Over 99.99% of registries will not have this problem. It is so rare, that I have hardly...
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“avast! license violation” being sent to Business’ using avast! Free
The avast! free for home use is in specific license violation if you use your computer for a home business. That is a commercial use. I have personally witnessed mass piracy of our free product in business. I have knowledge of computer vendors loading avast! free in corporate environments. I have had customers say to me “your free product is too good, you just lost a customer” It’s the same as walking into Walmart and stealing a DVD. It seems that because it is online, it is OK to steal. In the avast! 4 Free, the network shield was...
How to use Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware to scan and remove malware from your computer
Introduction: As you may have noticed, we use MalwareBytes’, or MBAM, in a lot of our removal guides. We do this for no reason other than the fact that the program simply works well and that we can count on it to remove what it says it can. It is updated constantly throughout the day and has excellent protection on all the new malware that comes out. With that said, we feel that MalwareBytes is an important tool to have as part of your computer’s security arsenal. One of the program’s nicest features is that it is free and easy to...
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