{"id":55971,"date":"2017-01-13T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=55971"},"modified":"2017-01-12T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:00:47","slug":"faq-what-is-pc-pitstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/faq-what-is-pc-pitstop\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ: What is PC Pitstop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PC Pitstop was founded in November 1999 by Rob Cheng and Dave Methvin with the sole purpose of creating a better way to diagnose common computer problems. We\u2019ve released several products since then including Optimize, Disk MD, PC Magnum, Erase, Exterminate and most recently, PC Matic! <a href=\"http:\/\/pcmatic.com\/supported\">PC Matic<\/a> was released in 2009 with our whitelist protection Super Shield in 2011. If you see PC Pitstop or <a href=\"http:\/\/pcmatic.com\/supported\">PC Matic<\/a> in the news, they&#8217;re both in reference to our company. 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