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Old 25th August 2012 | 20:49
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Milo Minderbinder
 
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I'd rather hoped that with the mods sanitising this thread and deleting your earlier posts that you'd taken the hint and gone away. However as you've come back for a second spit I'll riposte in kind. Just once. I won't reply to you on this thread again - I've better things to do
But in the meantime, to take your points.....

"I can tell you that IObit works great and will not damage most computers based upon the 7 brand names I tested. In fact I have never seen IObit damage a single computer"
Of the many thousands I've been involved in fixing, either directly or through supervision, I can assure you that the products are crapware that reduce performance, damage registries and can stop machines booting. Thats not found from a sample of seven machines, its based on many thousands of machines actually failing while in use in the real world

"detects viruses that my old Trend Micro and Norton missed."
If you use Norton and Trend Micro as any kind of yardstick for viral detection performance then you lose any kind of credibility you ever had. Both are close to useless in real world environments. Not hard to make ANYTHING look better than those.

Regarding Malwarebytes, you were the one who initially mentioned it in the same breath as the IObit software, naturally leading to the conclusion that you were comparing the products. As to "finding it on CNET" - I would suggest you would do better to obtain it directly from their website. There are too many issues with downloads from CNET, with some versions of the site redirecting you to assisted downloads. The same comment applies to Piriform's CCleaner as well
As to the correct name origin for CCleaner, its not a semantic point, its a point of accuracy as there are numerous examples of crapware which can be found by a Google search for cookie cleaner

Finally your comment "I use MalwareBytes, IObit and CCleaner together and have done so on many different computers for over a year with great success. "
Whoopie doopie dooo! A whole year and you're an expert! I've been fixing these things full time since the late 1990's and I still regard myself as a beginner. Remember - you may be an expert programmer but that means zilch when you're faced with fixing a machine that doesn't work. I've lost count of the numbers of MCSEs or similar I've sacked for being useless at practical stuff
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