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Registry Repair Freeware Trojan Alert!
People often download registry repair freeware directly off the internet to solve registry problems. While most of these utilities are reputable pieces of software, there are also many others less trustable
These often pass themselves as registry repair utilities while in fact they are Trojans. Once you run them on your system hoping to boost your PC performance, these utilities freely collect personal data stored on your PC.
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What is a Registry
Your OS registry is the most sensitive areas on your PCs operating system. It has entries containing information on your PC settings and configuration. In fact, your PC usually stops working or become unstable if you accidentally change or delete data on the registry.
Every time that you install or uninstall a application, a digital camera or anything else, you are in fact making entries to the registry, telling your PC of the presence of the new addition, as well as its functioning.
As people keep adding new programs and applications, the registry area quickly get cluttered with all sorts of entries useful and old forgotten entries which are no longer needed. At some point, your PC gets loaded down by so much info and progressively slows down.
Do You Need A Registry Cleaner?
There are plenty excellent registry repair freeware available for download online. These are designed to improve your PC performance by optimizing the registry data access: they delete old unused entries, optimise the use of other registry files etc. It is quite amazing that most PC users have never heard of registry cleaners and quite a number of us simply do a clean install every time they notice that their computers performance has declined.
Alert Trojan!
You need to be wary of the fact that not all registry-boosters are trustworthy: hackers and other cybercriminals have tried to cash in on the fact that more and more people use the internet to download virtually anything: music, videos, files, and programs.
These criminals will often build an apparently well-functioning utility and distribute it as freeware online. In the background of this software however, they will also build a less useful application designed to either harvest the unsuspecting users personal data or cause some similar compromise of personal security.
It is therefore very important, before you start downloading any registry repair freeware, to make sure the source is completely trustworthy.
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