![]() Interestingly, a scan with Malwarebytes didn't pick anything up. It's left an advert popup program behind. There are no Iobit products shown in my add/remove programs list What's much more annoying is I uninstalled Smart defrag after the issues I had above. ![]() With a date and timestamp of when I logged in earlier.įile properties show it as version 1.4.0.202, description "Reminder" and company. Task manager shows a suspicious process I'm not familiar with, running promote-upx.exeĪ search finds this file in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp One of my Windows XP machines that previously had Smart Defrag on it just popped up this next to the clock (see attachment) If I can work out a way, I'll see if I can recreate the auto update from v2 to v3 again and watch carefully to see what happens and try to understand what was going on.Īn interesting, and not very savoury ps on this one. In the 2nd instance, DEFINITELY wasn't there before, because I scanned for it, then started Smart defrag, it forced it's update, and then I had malware. Yet on two separate computers (both running Windows 7) I was upgraded from V2 to V3 without being asked or even prompted, and ended up with malware that wasn't there before. A clean install of Smart Defrag V3 is, well, clean. Upon checking and rescanning, the computer was still free of anything suspicious. I opted out of the "advanced systemcare" but was not offered any malware-like programs. I then scanned my PC for malware with Malwarebytes, and installed Smart Defrag. These files were bit identical, and scanned clean for malware and viruses with malwarebytes and Virustotal. Having completely uninstalled it yesterday, today I downloaded V3 from the IObit website (which redirects to Cnet download) and also from the Majorgeeks download site. So, given the way this is forced on you, my advice would be to avoid SmartDefrag and uninstall it if you're using it. These things happened on the 2nd PC despite unticking all the options presented to me in the screen shown in the attachment The start page has been similarly changed. My search engine in IE and Chrome has also been changed to Yahoo, with a referall to Spigot. It had also left a file in the temp folder that MalwareBytes says is a Fake Anti Virus application (file called Resource_AcceptRate.exe) When it had done so, I looked at my installed programs, and found that despite unticking the options, SmartDefrag had also installed Spigot Search Protection. ![]() I unticked the boxes and let the installation of SmartDefrag 3 complete. I think this is really sneaky, I'm usually pretty good at noticing things like this, but I hadn't asked for the update, it just went ahead with it. I now realise I hadn't noticed the tick boxes the first time around, and so had agreed to have all that junk installed on my computer at the same time. These all had date and time of when I'd run Smart Defrag.Ĭurious now, I did the same on another computer that also had Smart Defrag version 2 installed, and lo, after a minute or so it quit and presented me with the screen shown in the attachment. ![]() I uninstalled the programs, reset the settings, ran Malwarebytes on the system and it found several other things in the temp folder, including one it reckoned was a Fake antivirus program. It had installed Advance System Care, A Browser Toolbar, changed my default search engine to Yahoo (with a spigot referrer), installed several Spigot Programs, and 3 browser plugins for Ebay, Amazon and DNS lookup failure redirect! I clicked the OK button and then saw lots of other things appearing. Today I ran it to do that very thing, and after a minute or so the program disappeared, and I saw a notice telling me I'd been automatically upgraded to version 3. However, it doesn't defrag some system files, and I found that Smart Defrag can do this at boot time if you ask it to, so I occasionally use this program. My favourite Windows defrag program is MyDefrag, which is amazing at improving program startup and access times, especially on older computers. ![]()
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