No not at all. Its because they have not only taken the code, but passed it off as if it was their own, put all of their users at risk ( There might have been more than one corporations who had deployed this software) put themselves in a risky position and to top it all of it was just suicidal(because if it was proved in c court of law, that would have amounted to bankruptcy). Would you trust or employ someone who has known to have suicidal tendency? Absolutely not.
Why does Iobit have such a bad reputation?
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That's understandable, because IMF does not have very good behaviour blocking and Avast is nowhere near as bad as if you make it out to be.
I don't know what your point is. Just because a program has only basic protection against piracy, does not mean that its bad.
Which is also the case for most software publishers.
Than what proof exists that tells me, as a potential customer that their tool(s) is (are) the best on the market if they care little about their own tool(s)'s protection, let along my protection?
I have used Avast (many of its versions, free and paid ones too), and from my experience switching to Eset was single-handedly the best choiche I have ever made. Avast even back then had a questionable protection (granted, they had their gold days, but we all know what's true about good things, right?)... Now, their "protected and super-secure browser" was found not only to be anything but protected and super-secure, and it was used for god knows how long as a data gathering tool, and suprise-suprise it was sold to the highest bidder....
Yes, but most software publishers don't make so-called "pc care" and antivirus tools. Those who works in the security field gets audited wether they like it or not, otherwise who would buy their goods?
But it's not different with IObit to many other software publishers. For example all of the software from Auslogics/Tweakbit/Outbyte (which are all basically the same company) can be converted into the paid pro versions, just by copying a certain dll file to the program's folder.
Let's not also forget that it is extremely easy to illegally activate Windows. Does that mean we should all stop using Windows?
Avast has some issues certainly, but it still is a very good antivirus. I can name many antiviruses that offer nowhere near the level of protection that Avast does.
They once had problems with Malwarebytes' signatures and from then onwards they're suspicious. My advice will be to be cautious when using their software.
Hello everyone, IMHO IObit has 2 good things going for them & that is IObit Uninstaller Pro & DriverBooster Pro.
I also have Revo-Uninstaller but sometimes I think IObit is better, I would like to say that ASC I would never consider using on my Notebook.
My Computer maintance is handled by Auslogics Boost-Speed 12.
I also have Revo-Uninstaller but sometimes I think IObit is better, I would like to say that ASC I would never consider using on my Notebook.
My Computer maintance is handled by Auslogics Boost-Speed 12.
It works fine for me. I'm using the Pro version, which I got for free as giveaway and now and then, it scans for updates in the background. When it finds an update it automatically downloads and installs it. It only runs when it's checking for or installing updates, the rest of the time it doesn't even show an icon in the system tray.
In regard to SPAM, I've been an IObit user for years, rarely receive emails from them and have no reason to believe they are selling my details.
Old news. Get over it.
As for the "adware", most freeware contain bundleware/sponsored apps, or in-app ads.
Yea, listening to user suggestion is a important thing.
I use iobit driver booster+ASC pro for 2 years, didn't see problems caused by them.
They always make backups
They don't make problems, if they do then just use the restore point.
When ASC clean my reg it crushed......
SO I just unchecked the box on reg defrag and clean work fine
reg clean are dangerous and useless.(not just ASC like every reg cleaner)
Thats true, who doesn't display ads? on FREE versions?
All trash. You don't need more than CCleaner, Defraggler and Revo Uninstaller, free versions,
wise disk cleaner cleans more junk tho, and it is totally freeware. I use iobit uninstaller because I got their giveaway keys, and it is very good.
It cleans so much more junk that once bricked my system.
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There could potentially be issues if you enable deep scanning, but aside from that, it should never delete any needed registry keys. Years ago the registry cleaner had issues with false positives, but I helped IObit fix the issues. Did the problem happen recently? Did you have deep scan checked?
They are mostly useless, but there are a handful of registry cleaners that are safe to use.
That would be an exceptionally rare occurrence, as it should be safe to use. Wise Registry Cleaner and the registry cleaner in Wise Care 365 have very minor issues with false positives, but the disk cleaner shouldn't delete anything that is needed.
Advanced SystemCare is safer to use than CCleaner, because CCleaner's registry cleaner has minor issues with false positives. But that's only issue if you use CCleaner's registry cleaner. If you just want to clean junk files, then Wise Disk Cleaner is much better than CCleaner (which I've never liked) in my opinion.
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For anyone that cares, I've use Ccleaner for years, cleaned my registry hundreds of times, not one issue so far.
Same.
Just stick with Windows built in defragmentation or O&O Defrag 24.
Defraggler is pretty outdated:
Windows built in defragmentation doesn't defrag anything... it's always 0% fragmentation, all prefect 
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