PC Question. Is RegCure legit? It's offered by PCPerformanceTools.com?

I've had a screen constantly coming on that appears to be a legit windows alert, but by following the links to a free scan that says you have various problems, then you are led to a screen that asks for $39.00 to register and fix the problems. I have Norton and Adware, but these warnings keep popping up. The screen either says windows has found a serious error & has to shut down, or that you have serious problems and need to scan and find them.

Anonymous2008-02-22T15:56:37Z

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That is Smitfraud go to bleepingcomputer forums, NEVER click on the popups again for the error thing if it does a coutndown go to startup and run than type shutdown -a it will stop it then go to bleepingcomputer forums, sign up, tell them your problem they are EXPERTS and say what security you have, thanks :)

Anonymous2008-02-22T23:57:29Z

Sounds fake...
Run Spybot S&D:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Try using a good free regcleaner by TweakNow.
http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html

zoomjet2008-02-23T00:20:01Z

RegCure is not legit; it is a rogue product that finds problems and then asks you to pay to fix them; Rogue Remover may be able to detect it and get rid of it
free here
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/rogueremover.html

CCleaner can scan your registry for problems - it's free and safe
http://www.ccleaner.com/

jdrewes20012008-02-22T23:59:01Z

Try this online scanner. It will let you remove infections after the scan.

You can buy this one if you need additional protection.


http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/