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SYSTWEAK A RIPOFF!

Anonymous
2014-06-18T04:55:17+00:00

PC REG kept popping up with a message that I have hundreds of critical problems that need to be addressed to immediately. Finally, I gave in. I ordered the cleaner, gave my account numbers, and in response, the email claimed the money did not go through. That was a blatant lie; they took my money and gave me nothing for it. When I got in touch with their customer service, I explained I wanted to talk to a manager and receive a refund. He gave me this website to go on that has given me all of these different options. I have yet to reach them!

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-11-28T09:13:16+00:00

    I've read a lot of those and frankly none of them helped.

    The first thing to realise is that SysTweak re-installs itself if you remove it from the directories.

    I used HitManPro, an excellent tool, to remove it. However, within five minutes of logging back on it was displaying itself again. So the question was "How did it reinstall itself?".

    After using HitManPro again, before I re-booted, I searched the file directories and found nothing. So I started to think about other places references could be. The answer, of course, is in the registry. Using regedit run from a command line, I searched the registry for every reference to SysTweak. On finding a reference, I deleted the containing "folder". After I had finished that, I re-booted.

    SysTweak has now disappeared from my system.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-11-27T17:14:35+00:00

    I've tried both of those programs and neither will remove SysTweak. It is almost impossible to locate. It doesn't appear in any list of installed programs. I found a program, but I can't remember what it was called, that did find a number of references to it and did remove them. However, five minutes after I had rebooted, SysTweak was displaying its screen again. There must be something prompting it to reinstall again.

    How the hell do you remove it?

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-18T09:55:15+00:00

    PC REG kept popping up with a message that I have hundreds of critical problems that need to be addressed to immediately. Finally, I gave in. I ordered the cleaner, gave my account numbers, and in response, the email claimed the money did not go through. That was a blatant lie; they took my money and gave me nothing for it. When I got in touch with their customer service, I explained I wanted to talk to a manager and receive a refund. He gave me this website to go on that has given me all of these different options. I have yet to reach them!

    There have been a LOT of complaints about this company. People paying for products and not receiving them. Looks like you and many other people have been scammed. At some time or another you have downloaded and installed a program on you're PC and this Malware was also installed as well. It was planted on you're PC to produce pop-ups so you would think there was something wrong with you're PC and to get you to buy the program.

    If you want a registry cleaner use CCleaner. there is a Free version.

    https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

    If you don't have a Malware cleaner on you're PC use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. There is also a Free version. To clean up any Malware on you're PC.

    https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-11-27T23:24:44+00:00
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