Advertisements are coming up on the front page for "ErrorSmart" software, which is at best a scam piece of software which reports false positive problems and tries to get money to remove them, and at worst a possibly malicious piece of software on it's own.
Not the sort of folks you want to do business with.
CCleaner is awesome btw. :-)
Cheers
I registered to post the same information but decided to search first. As of today the rogue ad is still being displayed on all of the CCleaner.com pages except the forums. Piriform may want to consider contacting the ad server(s).
McAfee SiteAdvisor ratings on errorsmart.com: http://www.siteadvisor.jp/sites/errorsmart.com/summary/
Thanks for pointing this out, I've removed them
Hi Piriform forum,
This is a common Google problem.
e.g. now there is one for various dubious products, some advertising Defrag.
PCOnpoint was one, RegCure is another ultra-dubious one. At a glance, most
of the Google ads look like scam, except the Diskeeper one, these guys are
quite sophisticated and it is quite an industry.
This is a general scourge in PC-land, but more so in websites that have excellent
products, also security forums and more. Many of these products are quite
obviously scams (after a bit of researching) but they are careful to either
be new and change names or keep off the rogueware lists (which have to be
conservative for legal reasons) by not doing the more blatant spyware and hijacking
maneuvers.
They do phoney fear-mongering, invalid results, 'free scans' that lead to forcing
$ to do anything, then what they do is ultra-dubious, difficult deinstallation,
unethical billing practices unannounced, the list goes on and on.
If Piriform could help take the lead in combating this (a big project) it would
be appreciated. At least consider what you can do to try to keep Google
honest, or find other venues. Please, you have a top-notch company,
maybe this can be put on the very warm burner.
Thanks.
Shalom,
Steven Avery
Queens, NY