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Pareto Logic - Friend or Foe?

By Danteae ·
Hi Techians,

This is my first shot at posting, so please be kind :)

I'm starting up my own IT consultancy and am looking for some good products on the market.

One of the suites I have come across in my digital wandering is the products from Pareto Logic.

They provide the following software:
ParetoLogic DriverCure, Anti-Virus, Data Recovery Pro and Registry Cleaner.

Please could you help me out by sharing your experiences with these products or offer a better alternative.

The reason I have titled this post "Friend or Foe" is that after using DriverCure my PC was wrecked. I had to re-install from scratch, which I'm sure we all agree is not so fantastic.

I'm hoping that I did something wrong and that these are great products.

All constructive advice is welcome, thanks for your responses in advance.

Thanks,

Tyba

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None of the utility suites are very good

by jdclyde In reply to Pareto Logic - Friend or ...

They will have a few places they shine, but the rest is just filler to help put a longer list of features on a box.

You have already destroyed one computer, luckily it was your own. Imagine if that would have been a customers system that you had destroyed?

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I'm assuming that those were the paid...

by The Maverick Phantom Wanderer (formerly Macoza, No In reply to Pareto Logic - Friend or ...

...versions of those products, considering that they refuse to work in the free versions.

Either way, I consider ParetoLogic to be baitware (my own term) of the worst kind.

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Baitware?

by neilb@uk In reply to I'm assuming that those w ...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/baitware
http://www.allwords.com/word-baitware.html
And another 573 hits

Google, whilst usually being your friend, may also prove to be less so.

:)

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I knew I should have

by The Maverick Phantom Wanderer (formerly Macoza, No In reply to Baitware?

checked to see if it was already defined first. But the two definitions are exactly what I had in mind.

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Yep...

by neilb@uk In reply to I knew I should have

You should know that someone would on here check it out. And today that someone was me. :)

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Foe... and hard to un-install

by cmatthews In reply to Pareto Logic - Friend or ...

Stay away, to many system hooks and drivers as I recall and left bits and pieces after de-install. In the end, I had to use autoruns to delete a driver, I brute forced the rest and use CCleaner to sweep the registry.

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I only tried 1 util from them.

by The Scummy One In reply to Pareto Logic - Friend or ...

and it didnt go well. First, it was on a fresh install of XP pro. I installed their util (I forget which, but it was likely a system monitor program). I didnt like it much, so I uninstalled it. It was installed for about 20 minutes.

Then, every few hours I would get a popup stating that the paretologic.dll was not found (or some other file, I forget). I scoured the registry and startup options, but could not find (easily) how to stop this. After a week I had to get other utils to help me rid of it.
Stay away from this POS company and cr@ppy SW.

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Foe, stay away!

by MrSmith9999 In reply to Pareto Logic - Friend or ...

I paid and used their products about 12 months ago, only to see that both my laptops had to be rebuilt from scratch like you. My best advice is to stay away!

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your only about a year late.

by .Martin. In reply to Foe, stay away!

but thanks for your thoughts

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Pareto@your own risk

by papabear65 In reply to Pareto Logic - Friend or ...

I've used Pareto's RegCure for 4 yrs., and have recently discovered that the program is a farce. I'm slow on the up-take and down-loaded DriverCure and FileCure with catastrophic results. The computer locks up, crashes, has slowed to a snail's pace, and has corrupted all connections with my peripherals. A word to anyone considering any Pareto products: DON"T BOTHER!

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