fsmramen Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliteKiller Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin MrG Posted January 24, 2008 Admin Share Posted January 24, 2008 Thanks for pointing this out, I've removed them Piriform.com - [CCleaner - Defraggler - Recuva - Speccy] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Avery Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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