I am with Don on this one. Very misleading promotion. I, too, went down the rabbit hole trying to figure out who they are and whether they are reputable. But if you do a search for them, their web site and twitter page and facebook page and forums are all over page one of the search results. That demonstrates some good web site optimization but hardly an organic groundswell of support. Reviews are fair to middling at best. If they have to be misleading to draw in customers, best to avoid them, if for no other reason to discourage such online behavior.
Review sites will offer alternatives, including legitimate freebies.
Bruce Lund
--- On Sun, 11/18/12, don penlington <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: don penlington <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCSOFT] Good, Bad or Indifferent?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, November 18, 2012, 10:45 PM
Joyce writes:
<<I came across a "recommended" download to "speed up" my
computer: SpeedUpMyPC by Uniblue. Is it or is it not a good idea to
download and use this software?>>
Bad. For 2 reasons.
1. Uniblue software appears to hover on the borderline between scamware and genuine. It does work in some cases, but will usually end up asking you for money for problems which may not be genuine. On principal, I would not trust any company that offers something for free, and then further down the line you find you have to pay for it. I had occasion a while ago to research Uniblue for a friend who swore that a particular Uniblue program was a good thing to have, because it quoted on its website many "independent" reviews, all praising it to the hilt. Upon looking at those reviews, I discovered that many of those so-called independent websites had only Uniblue reviews, and moreover they all seemed to have been written in a very similar style, similar wording, phrases, etc, as if all had been written by the same person. 'Nuf said. Which is a shame, because it seems that some of their software may actually be quite good. But any software company
that stoops to this type of marketing is "out" in my book. Maybe they've picked up their act more recently, I haven't looked to see.
2. I would not trust any automatic speedup or "fixit" software. More often than not, they can compound existing problems, or at best cover them up in such a way that other, sometimes worse, problems may result. Occasionally they can create real havoc. Much better to find out just what is slowing the system, then fix it in a methodical way. Cure-all solutions rarely work.
Don Penlington
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