The Reality Behind Anti-virus and PC Cleaning Software

Your PC often needs a little cleanup once in a while; but you should be careful what tools and software you use. Some can be a source of harmful data.

If you have ever browsed the web looking for PC cleaning software, you were probably surprised at how many are actually out there. However, be aware that a majority of this software is very capable of harming your PC instead of cleaning it.

The typical computer user probably would look into buying very advanced antivirus software since they are led to believe by the “free scans” on the web that very malicious software and potentially dangerous files are on their computer. This is similar to how a doctor scares a patient into taking a particular medicine, so the doctor gains a commission from the company that produces the medicine for having prescribed it to a patient. The world is full of people who just want to make money, and antivirus companies, like Symantec are not an exception. However, this article is not meant to discourage you from having antivirus software on your PC, but to propose a different scenario of what might be going on in your PC. Most people who are experiencing a slow-down of their PC – and the infamous Blue Screens, probably have a computer registry problem; not a virus. So, running a registry cleaner will probably be just the solution to the problem.

Let us look at the typical user who is looking for PC cleaning software. Most likely, the first thing they do is go to a search engine and search for “Free Virus Scan”. This could be a very large mistake for some people who are not skilled enough to tell whether they are being tricked or not. The results that show are obviously software that either claim to be a PC cleaning suite, or are the full legitimate real deal. Even savvy people can be fooled like this. The most sure-fire way, unfortunately to find proper PC cleaning software, is to search for one that is commercially available from a trusted company that specializes in this kind of thing. If you really want to buy a commercial software, you need to buy one that has the following features – a money-back guarantee, cleans the registry, repairs the registry, backs up the registry, takes preventative measures for registry problems that might occur again, and provides customer support.

If you are a person who does not have too much familiarity with computer terminologies, the best suggestion would be to also get software that will be simple to use, so you will not have to end up spending hours on the PC trying to figure out how the software works.