Will Slimcleaner Optimize Your PC? - Comments Page 2

This "free offer" posting looked interesting. It implied that it was free and came with Microsoft endorsements. I downloaded it and before I could activate the free (Ha Ha!)software I had to contact an on line representative.

To activate it it required $ 39.95 in cash right now. So much for the free lead come on! Ok so I followed along. they charged my Visa immediately and then a rep. connected to my computer on-line rep. and went through the installation process. Of course they found I had many other problems and that was going to cost a lot more money. Like $250 now and $19.95 a month for ever!
I did not go the whole route and after about an hour and saying good buy, I find that the Icon of the basic program would not boot. They wanted more money.
My personal opinion is this is a big rip off. I have delete the no-working program that I paid $39.95 for and requested a refund. I paid immediately, but they want three weeks to give me a refund. Am I angry? You bet! Stay away for this!

Very disappointed in this product. I purchased the Slimcleaner Plus on December 31, 2013 along with their "Driver Update Program. After my experience with Slimcleaner Plus, I won't even try the "Driver Update Program", just chalk it up to a bad experience. Just over 30 days later Slimcleaner stopped working property. It would start then run for a few seconds and get stuck and not go any further. I called their technician who took over my computer and looked at the system history log and pointed out the numerous errors in the log. He said I needed a "Tune Up" and tried to "HIGH PRESSURE" me into purchasing their Tune up for $250 + an ongoing $19.95 per month, or I could purchase a "one time Tune UP" for $350. I declined. He advised me the Slimcleaner Plus program "WOULD NOT WORK UNLESS I HAD MY SYSTEM TUNED UP".

It is my opinion Slimcleaner is another company ripping off consumers and they should think twice before purchasing this product. I wish I would have checked it out more thoroughly before purchasing.

I am going to add this website to my favorites for future reference!

I'm especially concerned about SlimCleanerPlus, as I came home one day and it was installed on our home PC. My wife and kids know not to install anything until I look at it, so I'm assuming this utility surreptitiously installed itself. If that isn't malware tactics, I don't know what is. The date/timestamp was early morning on a weekday so it had to have been while my wife was on the PC. This is just plain scam/malware. Here's how to kill it (who knows what it actually does if you try to uninstall it):
Go to task manager. Make sure you are viewing all process by all users. Kill the three items starting with SLIM... Then rename the install folder at 'C:\Program Files\SlimCleaner Plus', just add .BAD to the end of it. Reboot, then go back and delete the folder. You'll need to disable the Slimware service launcher to eliminate startup errors. Then run Malwarebytes or Spybot and CCleaner to remove the last dregs.

I was taken in by a magazine review that said Slimcleaner was the best product, so I downloaded it. Of course I found that it would not fix anything unless I purchased the subscription which I didn't do. I then uninstalled the program. After a few weeks my computer was very slow starting programs, saving files from within programs and working with Windows Explorer. After some searching and I found that my start-up programs list contained an entry for Slimcleaner - I disabled it as a start-up program and my problems disappeared.
It appears to be an attempt to encourage me to re-install Slimcleaner and purchase the subscription to fix a problem that it created.

I could not get by the first scan's recommendations. I do not know how I ended up with this program installed on my Windows 7 Pro. There it was with the results of a scan that I did not request. Twenty drivers were out of date. I went to the device manager and told it to search online for a replacement for each of them. Nineteen, I'm told, were up-to-date and did not need an update. One of them did and the update carried the same version number as the one it replaced.

I connected with the support folk via chat. Reported to them about the above results and asked them, "What is up?" Anybody want to see the transcript of the chat session? Bottom line - I see the entire experience as a scare tactic. Twenty bad drivers? To fix them I need to buy the product for thirty bucks. Truth? None of the drivers needed updating.

All I got was a sales pitch that ended with assurances that if I dropped the thirty bucks and their efforts to help me failed they would give me my thirty bucks back. Wow! To fix the problem all they would have to do is turn off the flag in their software that enables twenty bad drivers to be found and the problem is fixed. Who knows?

Additionally: Their report lists the bad drivers and their locations in the device manager. Several of the locations were wrong.

SlimCleaner Plus seems to be working for me but I'm not really up on computers so I depend on others to help me keep my computer clean and working. So just because this seems to be working for me can it still be Malware and destructive?

Interesting article, Bob. I maybe subscribing to your page here pretty soon--enjoyed your writing style.
I'm a computer bench technician in West Texas. I've seen more and more systems coming in with this program installed. I remove infections regularly in the course of my job and perhaps what I am seeing is another program posing as this one and duplicating the publisher signature.
In removing the SlimCleaner utility and it's associated registry entries, there is a noticeable difference in system performance--for the better. I fully intend to install the program on one of my virtual machines and see just what comes in with the program when it installs--just curiousity.
For the consumer at large, all I can tell you is to be careful. And certainly question ANYONE, legitimate or not, if they are displaying "Microsoft Certified" or "Microsoft Gold Certified" or Microsoft Partnership status seals on their website. ANYONE can find them and attach them to their website. In most cases, it probably isn't legitimate.