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How to Avoid Fake Disk Cleanup Utilities

Like fake antivirus programs, there are several fake disk clean-up utilities, defragging tools, and hard disk scanners on the internet. Fake utilities can look legitimate, but spreads malware and may cause financial lose to users. Our readers should be aware of such fake utilities.
Symantec has purposefully published a list of software to avoid which includes Ultra Defragger, Smart Defragmenter, HDD Defragmenter, System Defragmenter, Disk Defragmenter, Quick Defragmenter, Check Disk, Scan Disk, etc.

It is recommended that users should use reliable source like Download.com to download a program.

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  1. Anonymous7:10 PM, March 08, 2011

    I rely only on known and popular utilities for the pc. After all the defragger accesses the data on the HDD. I have one of the most popular commercial auto defrag programs which has been around for ages. Been running it without any problems for a long time now.

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  2. Arun10:43 PM, March 08, 2011

    Hi, very informative and thanks about fake disk utilities

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