Giveaway of the Day - RegTidy
October 31, 2009
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RegTidy is a powerful registry cleaner and registry optimizer, it speeds up your PC by cleaning your Windows Registry and helps you improve your PC’s performance by optimizing your Registry, cleanup and Optimize your Windows Xp 98 NT System, Top Registry Key Error Fixer Software.It is so easy, you only need to make a few clicks. You can safely clean the errors & invalid entries which cause system slowdown, freezing and crashing, and repair registry problems to speedup your PC performance.
Improve your PC performance without expensive hardware upgrades!
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| System Requirements: | Windows 98/ME/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/Seven x32 & x64 |
| Publisher: | RegTidy.com |
| Homepage: | http://www.regtidy.com/ |
| File Size: | 1.83 MB |
| Price: | $29.95 |
This software was available as a giveaway on October 31, 2009, this giveaway is not available any more. You can download the trial version of this software at http://www.regtidy.com/.
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RegTidy is a questionable program; it is a “rogue scanner”. In other words, it is one of those programs that advertises “download me and scan your computer to find problems”. When a user downloads and scans their computer, RegTidy scans show misleading/excessive results. Then when a user wants to fix the “errors” RegTidy found, RegTidy tells the user to purchase a license in order to remove all the “errors”. Now of course today from GOTD we are getting a full version license, so we will be able to remove the “errors” RegTidy finds. However, I see no reason why anyone should have to put up with a developer who adds to the scareware problem.
Detailed evidence can be found at:
WOT Page for RegTidy
A-squared Rating for RegTidy
hpHosts Blog Post on RegTidy
My advice: don’t bother with RegTidy. Instead, grab TuneUp Utilities 2008, Glary Utilities, CCleaner, or Advanced SystemCare Free. CCleaner has always been a favorite of mine. Since TuneUp Utilities 2008 is an “old outdated” version, people running Windows 7 may want to avoid it, although I don’t see it causing much problems.
As I’ve always stated, these types of utilities are unnecessary and dangerous. TrendProtect lists their anonymous website as dangerous. Notice in the third screenshot, near the bottom, it says “Registry Convoy is now taking a backup”, not RegTidy.
Google is showing many pages this is not good software.
(Might have been changed since the bad reports)
http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md5=7fe660be6bfefc16514fd96846b12db6
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/malware/Adware.Win32.RegTidy-remove.aspx
I’ll give it a miss as I have other reg software