Silly me.Īlso, Iolo continues to make highly misleading claims about their product.
System mechanic scams driver#
I was hoping that the driver updates would be fixed in the new version. But, it gets worse, it wants to replace my network driver with one released more than three years before my current driver!
System mechanic scams drivers#
Which would be fine, except that in both cases the "updated" drivers are much older than the drivers I already have installed! My video drivers is from November of 2012, but SM wants to replace it with one released more than two years earlier. For fixing computer problems, 's Windows Repair does an excellent job - and it's free.Įlsewhere System Mechanic has problems too.įor example the included driver updater finds two driver updates for my computer. To be honest, while System Mechanic does a decent job of cleaning up a computer and making it faster, like virtually all system utilities, it can do next to nothing to actually remedy computer problems. The improvements the promise usually dont exist, or you could have done it with a few settings of your machine itself. In fact, I've never seen System Mechanic identify any specific problems with my computer. Its not about them being a trojan or something like that.
System mechanic scams install#
I want to make it very clear that Iolo were trying to make me believe that I needed to pay to upgrade to v12 - something that an honest and trustworthy company would most certainly never do.Īfter deciding to not part with my money (and never give any money to these scammers ever again) I launched System Mechanic, and it was able to download and install the new version for me.Ĭlick to expand.There's one big problem here - nowhere does Iolo list what these issues are. The money I would be paying to supposedly upgrade to the new version, would add another year to my subscription. Basically since I had a current subscription for System Mechanic, I don't need to actually pay for any updates. After carefully examining the link which opened in my browser it became evident that Iolo were doing their best in trying to dupe me into paying for v12, when in fact I did not need to pay for it. Yesterday, I got a pop up notification from System Mechanic informing me that v12 was now available, with a link to upgrade. I must point out that I put "spammed" in quotes, as the emails were more definitely not actual spam, as when I gave Iolo my email address I gave them permission to email me, and if I wanted to I could choose to opt out of the receiving the emails. As much as I love a good discount, I wanted to wait till v12 was released so I could try the new version before deciding whether to part with my money. Automatically cleans and repairs whenever your PC is idle. Helps secure open router ports and connected home devices. Frees trapped memory and defragments drives for even more speed. Removes system-hogging bloatware you didn’t know was there. I am a registered user of System Mechanic, and lately have been getting "spammed" from Iolo about the forthcoming version 12, telling me how much better it is than v11, and offering me a 50% discount on upgrading, if I was so do so right away. Boosts performance in real time for gaming, streaming, and downloading.
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