Is a huge scam. Whoever uses it has some questionable intelligence.
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/cyberdefender.com
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/mycleanpc.com/comment#comment
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If you happen to come across a user named “Cyberdefender”, or god forbid he comments here, realize that he is a lowlife scammer. In one of his answers, he rants on how you need a registry cleaner like you need a mechanic. How so? Where is your logic? It is a fact (confirmed by microsoft employees) that registry cleaners do not boost your computers speed.
http://lifehacker.com/5482701/whats-the-registry-should-i-clean-it-and-whats-the-point
http://lifehacker.com/5033518/debunking-common-windows-performance-tweaking-myths
Any software you see advertised on T.V. that is like this, is a scam.
mycleanpc
boostmypc
blah blaa blah
They’re all the same.
I’d go a step further: Don’t run registry cleaner programs, period. I won’t go so far as to call them snake oil, but what possible performance benefits can you get from “cleaning up” unneeded registry entries and eliminating a few stray DLL files? ~ Ed Botts
That’s weird. I worded specifically so it couldn’t be misinterpreted. “Any software claiming to do stuff like this…”. Norton? McAfee? Do you seriously think those flops mean anything to me? I’m sure your software goes perfect with it.
It’s me, God forbid!
I’m “a lowlife scammer?” Really? ALRIGHT!
I thought I was just a tech support dude in buttondown shirts quaffin’ my Mountain Dew and clocking in every day in a software company call center, but apparently I’m REALLY “a low-life scammer!” Do I get a cool black ninja henchman’s jumpsuit now?
Now, I’m not sure exactly what “a lowlife scammer” actually does, but I’m hoping it’s a little more glamorous than remoting on to yet another customer’s computer to get rid of that nasty Trojan he accidentally downloaded off Limewire thinking he was getting a pirated Third Eye Blind tune.
And I don’t really rant about anything — that wouldn’t fit our corporate image. What I said was that registry cleaners are computer system maintenance tools a lot like disk defragmenters. And if you don’t ever want to clean your registry or defrag your puter, I don’t think anybody’s ever going to force you to. Your computer might slow down a little, though. Just FYI.
So apparently ANY software you see advertised on TV is a scam? Wow, somebody tell that to Steve Jobs so he can get all the money he spent on those Superbowl ads advertising Apple products back. I guess we can all stop using Windows 7, because Bill Gates advertised that software on the dreaded television as well.
Plus it’s SO cool that you’re backing up the claim that software advertised on TV is no good… by providing sources from sites nobody’s ever heard of on the Internet.
You do know that the Federal Trade Commission, AKA the FTC, monitors commercial claims made on American TV, and pretty much anybody can make whatever claims they want on the Internet depending on where their file server is hosted, right?
OK, got it. The logic of your assertions is surely airtight there, my friend.
But if anybody wants to know how our software and services really work, just take a look at what they’re saying over at Trustlink.org — these guys are actual customers:
http://trustlink.org/BusinessProfile.aspx?ID=205958423
I’m never sure what to make of folks who haven’t quite figured out that it’d be more productive to take their concerns to the actual customer service center where we have the tools to assist them, than it is to go complain on an unaffiliated bulletin board somewhere on the Internet that people qualified to help them might not ever see. But we’re now trying to round up those little lost sheep and make sure they get help too, even if for some reason they can’t or won’t contact us directly.
Also, Cyberdefender is NOT under any kind of investigation by the FTC, and we never have been. CyberDefender does indeed do business with multiple different web presences, but this is because our product has been licensed to different distributors, such as MyCleanPC.com. No deception is necessary or intended; it is simply a matter of each distributor adding their own unique spin to the packaging and presentation.
Plus we’ve gotten the All-Clear from both Norton/Symantec and McAfee:
http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=cyberdefender.com
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/cyberdefender.com/msgpage?page=2