RegTidy is a questionable program; it is a "rogue scanner". In other words, it is one of those programs that advertises "download me and scan your computer to find problems". When a user downloads and scans their computer, RegTidy scans show misleading/excessive results. Then when a user wants to fix the "errors" RegTidy found, RegTidy tells the user to purchase a license in order to remove all the "errors". Now of course today from GOTD we are getting a full version license, so we will be able to remove the "errors" RegTidy finds. However, I see no reason why anyone should have to put up with a developer who adds to the scareware problem.

Detailed evidence can be found at:

WOT Page for RegTidy

A-squared Rating for RegTidy

hpHosts Blog Post on RegTidy

My advice: don't bother with RegTidy. Instead, grab TuneUp Utilities 2008, Glary Utilities, CCleaner, or Advanced SystemCare Free. CCleaner has always been a favorite of mine. Since TuneUp Utilities 2008 is an "old outdated" version, people running Windows 7 may want to avoid it, although I don't see it causing much problems.

Ashraf  –  16 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+425)

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As I've always stated, these types of utilities are unnecessary and dangerous. TrendProtect lists their anonymous website as dangerous. Notice in the third screenshot, near the bottom, it says "Registry Convoy is now taking a backup", not RegTidy.

Fubar  –  16 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+237)

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Malwarebytes classifies this software as "Rogue"

A rogue program is a malicious program that is disguised, for instance, as trustworthy anti-spyware programs or registry cleaners. But these programs are only put on the market to scare you into buying these programs because they make exaggerated claims about the safety of your computer or, worse still, give erroneous scan results or put their own malware in your system.

BuBBy  –  16 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+110)

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Google is showing many pages this is not good software.
(Might have been changed since the bad reports)

http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md5=7fe660be6bfefc16514fd96846b12db6

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/malware/Adware.Win32.RegTidy-remove.aspx

I'll give it a miss as I have other reg software

Mike  –  16 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+100)

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This is more than simply "scareware", it's dangerously bad!! The author (I'll assume there's only one such fool) purports to have the expertise required to analyze and "repair" certain complex areas of the Registry, yet seems unaware (for example) of the existence and meaning of REG_EXPAND_SZ entries (entries containing expandable environment variable references): the programming "masterpiece" that is RegTidy therefore wants to delete entries that refer to (so it claims) "non-existent files" (e.g. "C:\Windows\WICCodecs\{A6D092A4-081A-4F0E-9356-DA167E87D922}\Raw Formats\Hasselblad\%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%\HasselbladCodec.dll") when in fact the file does exist when you correctly take into account that "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%", on my machine, must be interpreted as "AMD64".

After RegTidy found several hundred such horrifying "errors" in my Registry and clamored to "fix" them URGENTLY, I immediately uninstalled this monstrosity. I can only imagine the damage it would have caused to the stability and functionality of my system had I been uninformed enough to let it go ahead with the repairs.

Scary to think that I even ran this thing: what if the two-stage "analyze THEN repair" had instead been a one-stage "analyze AND repair"? I guess I would have come crying here that I expected GiveawayOfTheDay to be a little more careful about whom it got in bed with! ... which I guess is what I'm doing anyway.

Pass on this one, folks, for your own sake!

JB

JBensimon  –  16 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+94)

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