Dottie wrote:
<<Lately I have been receiving pop-up messages from P.C. Power Speed 
telling me that my System Registry has errors.>>

In addition to what Bob wrote, these "errors" are entirely fictitious, 
designed to separate you from your money. When you send them money, you 
will normally get a "registered" No, which will miraculously "register" the 
so-called program and then tell you it's cleaned your system of all the 
"errors".  In fact, there never were any errors in the first place. The 
dead giveaway usually is that it appears to run a scan of your system and 
come up with these results in just a few seconds.  They are called 
"FakeAlerts" of which there are many varieties now in circulation. A 
legitimate program will take nearer an hour or more to do this.

McAfee's website has a free "Fakealert Removal Tool" which is quite 
effective at removal. Backup all important data first, as I have seen one 
instance where removing the FakeAlert also removed many vital Windows 
system files to which it had attached itself, rendering the computer 
completely unbootable. I think that was XP. W7 is probably better 
protected, but, hey, nothing's impossible. These things are very clever, 
and we're up against a multi-million-dollar industry here, just in 
FakeAlerts alone, so they can afford to pay huge money to attract some very 
clever programmers.

In a months time, the same notice will probably come up again, you'll send 
them another $50 or whatever, and your system will remain "clean" for 
another month, and so on until you begin to smell a rat.

I had a client recently who sent off $50 3 months in a row, until he 
finally decided to seek independant advice. A cleanout of his computer with 
Malwarebytes and Avira located and destroyed many malware items on his 
computer, most of which were adware, and therefore invisible.

So it's quite likely that what you are seeing is only the tip of the 
iceberg. You probably need to upgrade your antivirus/antimalware protection.

Don Penlington

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