Originally Posted by long_lurker
Understand these "snake oil merchants" are interested in your MONEY not your PENIS. Most of them don’t even believe or know that PE really works.
Not really related, but I saw a TV commercial in the middle of the day on a sports channel I think, for a windows utility that scans your PC for spyware and "errors" and afterwards fixes it so that you get better download speeds, no more crashes in MSN Messenger, or Internet Explorer, or Windows Explorer etc etc. The TV commercial was well made and it was supposed to make your "expensive" PC run the way it should. With payed actors smiling and showing the bar of the downloads suddenly twice as fast. So I typed in the address and downloaded a trial for the program out of curiosity.
It basically scanned windows registry, and windows shortcuts that lead to nowhere (a dead link). Didn’t scan for spyware at all. There was no possible way it could improve download speeds, and crashes in programs are usually the fault of the buggy program not your PC. So basically it was useless (considering it was claiming it could do), and you could get the same thing if you searched from a free shareware registry cleaner program rather then spending $40 or $60. When I uninstalled this peace of crap, it was invasive and hard to uninstall like Norton Anti Virus and things like that are. After uninstalled and restarting there were still references to it in startup in the registry that I had to remove with Hijackthis.
So basically it preys on the weak. In this case, non savvy PC types. Really dishonest way of making money, really frustrating. Bit off topic, but I guess these commerical penis enlargement sites are a bit the same way.
This is the program http://www.what … 1/speedscan.htm and if you see the TV commercial, don’t buy it!