Total System Care

By GoldSparrow in Potentially Unwanted Programs

Total System Care is a low-quality system optimizer. Total System Care and other system optimizers may perform some kind of unnecessary repair and greatly exaggerate problems on a computer. For example, Total System Care may look for outdated Windows registry entries or temporary files that can be deleted. Total System Care may then display alarming messages claiming that the affected computer is running slowly and that only Total System Care can make it run faster. In fact, doing the kinds of fixes that Total System Care recommends may have very little effect on a computer's speed or performance. However, from the Total System Care messages and notifications, one would think that the affected computer is in grave danger unless Total System Care is used right away.

The Repairs Performed by Total System Care may not be Necessary

If Total System Care were limited to making bogus claims about the state of your computer, then it wouldn't be much of a problem. However, Total System Care will run its scanners whenever you start up Windows and may take up system resources and cause conflicts with other software. This means that Total System Care may cause a number of issues on your computer, which Total System Care may blame on what are usually completely normal conditions. If you are particularly worried about any of the issues raised by Total System Care, there are numerous legitimate system optimizers on the market that are completely free and do offer an improvement on the affected computer.

How Total System Care may Try to Take Your Money

If you try to use Total System Care to fix the supposed problems Total System Care warns so much against, Total System Care may lead you to a payment page. According to Total System Care, it cannot remove the problems unless the computer user purchases a 'licensed version.' Doing this may involve entering your credit card information If Total System Care remains even after being uninstalled, or if Total System Care cannot be uninstalled using normal methods, PC security researchers recommend the use of a real security program that is fully up-to- date to perform a full scan of your computer and restore it to normal.

How Total System Care may Enter a Computer

In many cases, computer users may download and install Total System Care themselves. However, in most cases, Total System Care is installed automatically. Total System Care also may be bundled with other software. Common programs that may be bundled with Total System Care include media players, PDF creators and streaming software. During the installation, the PC user may be prompted to install Total System Care by default. Because of this, malware analysts recommend the use of advanced or custom installation in order to avoid installing Total System Care along with another program. If Total System Care has already been installed, computer users should ignore its messages and avoid interacting with Total System Care until it is removed completely.

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