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Registry Power Cleaner

Posted: February 24, 2008

Despite having links to the well-known McAfee PC security brand, Registry Power Cleaner is considered a rogue registry cleaner rather than a legitimate product. Registry Power Cleaner is sold by the discredited Winferno company at winferno.com, a company with a suspicious history that indicates the use of potentially fraudulent billing practices and software distribution methodology. Registry Power Cleaner may be distributed by malicious advertisements, and you should be careful to avoid installing Registry Power Cleaner or other unusual programs from sources that you haven't verified to be trustworthy. Instead of making use of Registry Power Cleaner's poor imitation of registry-cleaning features, you should remove Registry Power Cleaner from your PC with an anti-malware program that's capable of dealing with similar scamware products.

Why Registry Power Cleaner Isn't That Clean After All

Registry Power Cleaner is sold at winferno.com, a website that also proffers McAfee products mixed in with their selection of other software. Unfortunately, all of Registry Power Cleaner's independent software products, including Registry Power Cleaner, are nothing more than scamware that offer fake features while asking for your real money in return. Visiting winferno.com or a related website is very likely to infect your PC even if you do nothing else, since SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have found that this site uses drive-by-download exploits and other attacks that can install harmful software without your permission.

Registry Power Cleaner has also been seen spreading with the help of advertisements that attempt to install Registry Power Cleaner, albeit with your consent. Disabling scripts, such as Flash or Java, can help you to avoid being attacked by Registry Power Cleaner advertisements, and keeping your web browser fully up-to-date is also strongly advised to close such vulnerabilities.

Perhaps the most suspicious aspect Registry Power Cleaner is its company, Winferno, which offers a very suspicious refund policy. Although Winferno theoretically offers refunds, their policies threaten you with fees if you try to contact your credit card company or bank instead of contacting Winferno in dispute cases. SpywareRemove.com malware research team has often observed this as a common delaying tactic that criminal companies use to gain prolonged access to your credit card, and Winferno's warnings should be ignored.

Counting Out the Grungy Functions of Registry Power Cleaner

SpywareRemove.com malware experts have noted that Registry Power Cleaner often misses Registry errors that are caught by genuine registry cleaners, as well as a profusion of fake error results that only Registry Power Cleaner seems to find. Because Registry Power Cleaner appears to have no real features that would help your Registry, there's no reason to buy or refrain from deleting Registry Power Cleaner.

Because winferno.com also hosts other rogue products, you should also be careful to watch out for possible infections by rogue anti-virus programs, rogue anti-spyware programs and rogue defraggers. WolfRam AntiVirus, Windows XP System Repair, Personal Pro System, Ultim Block and Malware Defender are all examples of recent rogue security and defragmenter programs that exhibit similar symptoms to Registry Power Cleaner.

2 Comments

  • Chelsey Daire says:

    how do i remove Registry Power Cleaner? i have deleted the file from my computer(which i have no idea how it got there) now every time i turn on my computer it pops up, even though i "deleted" it. HELP! ):

  • Mary KAY witten says:

    I need this app, uninstalled immediately My Phone . It messed up everything. I can't even answer my phone! It changed my password (to what I don't know) They did not tell me that. This app is evil. Please uninstall, ASAP.
    THANK YOU, MARY KAY WITTEN

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