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Winfixer Tends to Exaggerate its Effectiveness to Impress Users
Looking for a quick way to fix to some common computer problems? Winfixer may be quick, but it is certainly NOT much of a fix. Winfixer passes itself off as a tool for cleaning and repairing your registry, hard disk, multimedia files, and other errors it finds, promising to bring your PC back to optimal performance. But in reality it may be pulling the wool over your eyes by faking its own heroics.
This category of deceptive software is called "nuisance software". Unfortunately, you will probably pay money for Winfixer before you discover it is not what you expected. Once the product is installed on your computer it will do its best to impress you with all of the problems it finds, to the point where it might even detect non-existent problems too. For this reason many users remove Winfixer from their system.
Winfixer falls in to the category of programs that scare you in to paying money for a product that won't do much to solve the problem. Similar software products of questionable value are Spyaxe, Spywarestrike, and Winhound.
We categorize Winfixer as a threat since it exaggerates its reports and prompts you to purchase it in order to clean up those threats. Winfixer is not a virus, or trojan or worm, it is just something that is considered to be unwanted due to being a poor quality tool and it alarms you over inconsequential things. Therefore, we recommend users remove Winfixer from their computer.
Your best bet for the assurance of a secure computer is to ask our professionals and get an opinion on what to install on your PC. You'd be surprised how good yet inexpensive security can be. In the mean time, we do not recommend the purchase of Winfixer or any of the above products; you will be throwing away your money.
