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| This is important information about finallyfast.com. Every night I would see the commercials for this site, they promise to speed
up your computer. I built my computer about 6 months ago and never had any
trouble with it, and no, it's not running slow, I just wanted to see what all
the hype was about. About half way through their free
scan my computer blue screened (crashed) and rebooted. Once Windows was finally booted
back up
a window informed me of a critical error. It claimed the error report was corrupted and that
usually indicates a serious problem with my computer. Well, there isn't any
problem with my PC, it was the software from finallyfast.com.
| Instead of getting myself in trouble by saying what I think
about finallyfast.com, I'll just post what I've found: |
From a11news.com (link):
"The website FinallyFast.com advertises a free download
of a Windows registry cleaner to speed up your computer,
but doesn’t tell you it’s $29.95 to actually remove
anything. What FinallyFast.com is selling - a Windows
registry cleaner - you can get for free in a product
called Spybot Search & Destroy and you can dramatically
speed up your computer by removing the adware and
spyware that SpyBot finds. Take a closer look at what
the FinallyFast website is really offering: You have a
problem with your computer running really slow, they
offer a seemingly free solution. Once you see the list
of junk files clogging up your registry file, you think
you have a huge problem and purchase Finally Fast." |
From jeiishin.wordpress.com (link):
Uhm, yeah. So this is a commercial I saw on TV for a
service that purportedly helps people with their sucky
PCs and problems related therein. My question is, What’s
the deal with showing Macs in half the commercial’s
scenes and then saying available for PCs only? It’s not
that Macs would actually need this service, but yeah, so
why show them in the first place? There’s something off
about that. |
From Thinking Is The Link (link):
Finally Fast.com is a ripoff, don’t do it.
To make your computer run good, do these free things
instead:
* Install Windows on its own partition, don’t install
anything on this partition but Windows.
* Run MSCONFIG and stop services and programs you don’t
need from running at startup. Which ones? Look here.
* Go to your control panel and open Add/Remove Programs
and Add/Remove Windows Components to remove crap you
don’t need.
* Use the free version of XP Lite to remove Windows
components you don’t need and to “shrink” your
installation. It will remove all the update and service
pack files (which can add up to well over 1 gig).
* Install SpyBot (with TeaTimer). Update and run it
often.
* Use ATF Cleaner to empty temporary fies.
* Use FireFox instead of IE. You won’t get as much
internet garbage on your PC.
* Run Defrag, often.
I think that’s about all I do. Mine runs good.
The commercial is a typical infomercial, lots of goodies
in it, observe! |
From superfantasticplastic.blogspot.com (link):
I, and several other computer users on the net can
assure you that there's nothing that this website can do
that you cannot get for a lower cost or completely free.
What's more, it's commercial is so bad that it's
laughable. It's fairly obvious that they're attempting
to prey upon those that have very little knowledge of
computers. How do I know this? Because their service, as
you can see on the disclaimer running with their
commercial, only works on PCs and yet they show users of
both the Mac iBook and the Apple G5 desktop using the
website to "speed up" their computers.
If you examine the clip under which the disclaimer is
running, the user is (ironically) typing on an Apple
keyboard at a G5 Apple desktop. They even Photoshoped in
a "blue screen of death" error message for the user of
the iBook. For those of you that don't know, and aren't
rolling on the floor laughing by now, the Mac OS has
never featured those error messages - they've even been
eliminated from Windows Vista. Now, both operating
systems merely freeze permanently instead of crashing
altogether. |
From the site "The
Original Smart-erotti"
The MyCLeanPC and DoubleMySpeed TV commercials (I
videotaped them as well for future reference) claims
that the CyberDefender software also cleans email
viruses and other nasties. It appeared to me when
running both scans on both computers that the software
only scanned the registry and nothing else at all. Seems
a bit deceptive to me to make claims that the software
doesn’t actually do. |
Angelo pc
I just checked WOT (Web of Trust) and both of these new
sites received “dangerous” ratings. McAfee’s SiteAdvisor
reports similar findings, at least for MyCleanPC.com.
I’m not going to go through the hassle of installing
anything they have to offer, just so I can report that
they’re bundled with malware. You’re just going to have
to trust me on this. |
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For true information on speeding up your computer click
here. |
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