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Preying on ignorance

Preying on ignorance

I’ve been spending a bit of time looking into something that has bothered me for awhile. I refer to it as “Predatory Utility Software”, or “PUS”. On Christmas day, I received two pieces of spam. These were admirable because they were able to defeat SpamSieve (my favorite software purchase of 2008). They were frustrating because they offered a piece of… software called “Error Nuker”. For years, I’ve been telling people that so-called “registry cleaners” don’t do anything, and in fact…

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