How safe is RegCure Pro?

Anonymous
2013-03-13T14:49:26+00:00

Should I allow RegCure PRO from Pareto Logic make changes on my pc?

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Anonymous
2013-03-14T00:35:23+00:00

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:49:26 +0000, richray-hotmail.com wrote:

Should I allow RegCure PRO from Pareto Logic make changes on my pc?

No! You should dump it immediately. Don't run it and don't let it do
anything.

Registry cleaning programs are all snake oil. Cleaning of the
registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and
don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html
and http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099
and also
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-windows-fact-of-life.aspx

Let me point out that neither I nor anyone else who warns against the
use of registry cleaners has ever said that they always cause
problems. If they always caused problems, they would disappear from
the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry
cleaner and never had a problem with it.

Rather, the problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it
the substantial risk of having a problem. And since there is no
benefit to using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad
bargain.

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Anonymous
2013-03-13T17:28:09+00:00

As with all these 'SpeedUpMyPc' type of programs as safe as holding a rattle snake by its tail

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-04-03T22:36:44+00:00

    Fully agree. Had Regcure already running for years; on versions of windows, and was frequently very happy to have it.  Today, having installed windows 8.1 on a brand new Laptop, having erased all its previous OS (windows 7), I only added chrome, OpenOffice, drivers for a Officejet Pro, Itunes; VLC media player, and Norton Internet Security, and reinstalled the Lenovo software. Been only on Google and the sites of two serious newspapers, and the sites from whcih to download all that.

    By the time I installed Norton, the PC was already infested with malware that made it actually impossible to install the Lenovo software: clicking on download brought me systematically, in Chrome and IE, on some very agressive publicty sites. 

    Uninstalling a few things with instructions found on the web, (using a mac :-)  ) rebooting a few times and installing Norton seemed to help things. Letting Norton do several full scans followe by reboots... you would think the PC would be both cleaned and systematically kept clean. 

    Quite soon, any searches wheter in google, in the Windows 8.1 search function, or on the URL bar .. where clearly taken over by some malware again. could not type characters at a speed higher than 1 per 2, 3 seconds.

    Installed trusty Regcure Pro, who declared the status of my registry CRITICAL, cleaned it, my laptop behaves normally again. Sure, Regcure pro also makes unwanted publicty for other products of the sa,e company, but you can get rid of that by ticking the box "do not repeat this message". I guess Norton's firewall works okay, and it probably keeps most true viruses out, but I find it suspicious that it is happy with a PC that unusably sluggish because some addware controls it. 

    So VERY VERY happy, since over 10 years, many computers and all Windows versions since win2000, with RegCure from Paretologic.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-10T11:15:49+00:00

    Like I said in my post, Microsoft are not affiliated to any company other than Microsoft. As Microsodft informed me the most they charge for one year is £ 95 Sterling, they do not ask for money/ bank details. This con company is scamming you out of money. My advice report it to your bank & dispute the money, report it the police.   My bank could not report it as fraud as I willingly gave my bank details to these swines, however I can dispute it & hopefully claim my money back.... Not sure what the system is like where you are but worth a try.  In the UK we have access to a fraud department within the Police. It's clear that you among all of us have being conned by their schemes. If you paid initially through paypal like I did, report it there aswell & request a refund.  Hope this helps....

    As I said in an earlier post I was eventually successful in getting a full refund. Below is the Email I received giving me details of the process to get a refund, the link may be specific to my order though  :  (I have overtyped my Order Details)

    ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Dear Paul,

    Thank you for contacting ParetoLogic customer support.

    We regret that you are dissatisfied with our product and would like to help

    you submit an official refund request so we can process it without delay.

    Our billing department requires you to fill in the web form below to ensure

    we are refunding the correct order and to address situations when clients are

    not satisfied with our products. In accordance with our guarantee, please ensure

    that you have completed the form within 30 days of your purchase

    date.

    You will need to reference this Order ID in the

    Refund Request Form:

    • PTLC-*********-*******

    Click the link below (or copy it into your browser) to fill in your Refund Request Form:

    Please be sure to fill out all fields and tick off all boxes in the form so

    that your refund can be processed without delay.

    Once you have submitted

    the form and the refund has been processed you will receive a confirmation email

    from our ecommerce payment processor SafeCart.

    Best regards,

    Torrey

    ParetoLogic Customer Support

    _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Hope this Helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-10T09:47:11+00:00

    Like I said in my post, Microsoft are not affiliated to any company other than Microsoft. As Microsodft informed me the most they charge for one year is £ 95 Sterling, they do not ask for money/ bank details. This con company is scamming you out of money. My advice report it to your bank & dispute the money, report it the police.   My bank could not report it as fraud as I willingly gave my bank details to these swines, however I can dispute it & hopefully claim my money back.... Not sure what the system is like where you are but worth a try.  In the UK we have access to a fraud department within the Police. It's clear that you among all of us have being conned by their schemes. If you paid initially through paypal like I did, report it there aswell & request a refund.  Hope this helps....

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