PC optimizers are not a new concept, and they have been around for quite a while. Nowadays, many consider them unnecessary, but having an official program made by Microsoft that is capable of (allegedly) speeding up your PC may sound quite appealing.

However, Microsoft’s PC Manager has already raised quite a few eyebrows when customers caught it recommending some questionable optimizing techniques, injecting affiliate links, and shamelessly claiming your PC needs repair if Bing is not set as the default search engine. Yikes.

  • mynachmadarch@kbin.social
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, because nobody ever slips problematic code into free software that isn’t caught right away. Sure buddy.

    I’ll stick with that extra layer that helps catch things I might miss no matter where the software came from thanks (no I didn’t think everyone needs norton or McAfee or the likes, just something).

    That’s also ignoring all the people who just don’t know enough about computers to catch as much. Not even talking old grannies or lazy people, just the average person who only has so much time to devote to keeping their system secure.