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By Bill Pytlovany<\/p>\n

Last month I wrote<\/a> about problems caused by the security company McAfee. An update from McAfee falsely accused my WinPatrol program of being a dangerous Trojan. A slow response from McAfee cost some business but mostly hurt our reputation for over a week.  I\u2019ve had a number of people ask me how things were going since this annoying experience.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my story isn\u2019t unusual. What we call \u201cFalse-Positives\u201d happen all the time and reputable companies take them serious.  Most companies certainly don\u2019t want to cause more harm than they help. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s another potential danger from programs promoted as Registry Cleaners<\/a> and\/or system optimizers. They can also delete program files or registry values that they decide may be harmful. How they decide what needs to be cleaned appears to be arbitrary. Currently, the only program of this type I recommend is Optimize 3 from PC Pitstop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My most recent efforts have been to contact folks with Piriform a company who distributes a program called CCleaner.  This program is well respected as a utility which will help clean up your computer claiming to make it run faster and more secure. One of our friends found out if you\u2019re a WinPatrol user CCleaner will remove one file you\u2019ll want to keep.  CCleaner does provide an option to exclude WinPatrol which for now I recommend unchecking.<\/p>\n

\"ccleaner\"<\/a> 
While I\u2019m honored to be included, WinPatrol users will want to uncheck this box.  The history.txt<\/strong> file is an important file you won\u2019t want deleted. The history.txt file stores a lists of actions you took using WinPatrol. If for some reason you want to recover a change you\u2019ve made it won\u2019t be possible without the history file. If at sometime you want to clean up this file WinPatrol already provides a button to initialize it.<\/p>\n

\"wpcleaner\"<\/a> 
I\u2019m hoping to contact someone at Piriform so I can let them know what might be useful to clean without hurting WinPatrol. <\/p>\n

Article continued here<\/a><\/p>\n

This post is excerpted with Bill’s permission from his blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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