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Review: Avast Antivirus vs. CCleaner

Two popular tune-up utilities available on the market today are Avast Antivirus and CCleaner Professional Plus. While there are plenty of reasons to compare Avast to Ccleaner, in the final analysis, iolo System Mechanic® is capable of providing superior solutions for all. Below is an Avast Antivirus review, along with a closer look at CCleaner. When comparing both to iolo System Mechanic, they come up short in a few ways.

Protect Yourself from Invasive Digital Fingerprinting

Online advertisers have in recent years pivoted from tracking cookies to a much more sophisticated—and largely invisible—method of data mining that acquires highly detailed information about your computer and the ways you use it to determine how best to sell to you. This significantly more invasive form of digital profiling is known as fingerprinting. Far from just the innocuous placement of targeted ads in your web browser, fingerprinting can be used to determine facts about you ranging from how many children you have in college, to which make and model of vehicles you and your family drive, to where and when you are likely to be away on vacation.

Privacy Guardian Online Privacy Protection

What you do online isn’t private. Without Privacy Guardian, companies and individuals can acquire enormous amounts of very specific information about you—your digital fingerprint—based on what you do on the internet, and much of this data can be used against you in various ways.

System Mechanic Wins PC Mag Editors’ Choice Award

System Mechanic® from iolo has won the PC Magazine Editors’ Choice Award for best Windows® utility. This is the eighth such award the editors at PC Magazine have bestowed upon System Mechanic, writing, “This excellent tune-up utility improves your PC’s performance by defragging the hard drive, deleting junk files, tweaking CPU and RAM usage in real time, and executing other computer-enhancing tasks. The latest version improves several longtime features, while adding a revamped, attractive interface.”

System Mechanic©: Open Source License

iolo technologies, LLC (“iolo”) licenses its software, whether free, trial or paid versions (“iolo Software”). iolo Software may contain open source code (“Open Source”). The rights or obligations you may have under the terms of the Open Source licenses are not changed by your acceptance of the terms of the EULA with iolo.

New Trojan Targets Chrome Password Manager

Sometimes what makes something popular can also make it problematic. Google Chrome, by far the most commonly used web browser in the world, has been targeted by a new trojan that steals passwords and stores them to a remote database.

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