![]() ![]() NET program, we tried opening it in DnSpy, a. Even when it was supposedly “fixing” these “issues”, nothing was ever deleted.Īs Clean PC Smart is a. Suspicious, we used Sysinternals Process Monitor to watch what Clean PC Smart was doing during its Registry scanning and cleaning, and found it was just reading the same keys, over, and over, and over again. Most maintenance programs will find more “issues” immediately, either because they were unable to delete everything they found last time, or removing Registry keys has created more inconsistencies, but Clean PC Smart claimed there were now no problems at all. ![]() We asked Clean PC Smart to “fix” these issues anyway, and ran more scans. The program starts its “scan” immediately, and quickly delivered an almost useless report: “Registry Cleaner” listed thousands of legitimate keys, “Windows Startup” contained only four items from a single Registry key (even Task Manager listed 21), the “Browser Add-Ons” page actually referred to internet history files, the “Task Manager” section was a static list of running processes, and so on. Network capture tool Colasoft Capsa showed how Clean PC Smart attempted to compromise our privacy on its first launch by obtaining our IP address, computer name and network adapter’s MAC address, then uploading them to its own server. ![]()
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