Windows Live Safety Center helps tune up your computer
Windows Live Safety Center is a new service that lets you scan your computer to help protect, clean, and keep it running at its best. The service is free and available directly from the Internet at http://safety.live.com.
You can revisit the Windows Live Safety Center for subsequent tune ups as often as you like.
Read more about this service from Microsoft here.
The only downside that I can see is that you have to use MS Internet Explorer to run it.
Update:
From PC-doctorguide
The scanner may not be able to remove threats that are stored in the System Volume Information\_restore folders unless System Restore is switched off. So, disable System Restore, reboot the system, scan the system and then restart System Restore.
Also, the scanner may not be able to remove threats stored in container files.
2 comments:
What cracks me up is they do a scan and they show all your hazardous programs and then to buy their program to delete them. All my "high security risks" were just common adware and tracking cookies
I agree somewhat. But this can come in handy for computer neophytes that really don't know what they are doing. Better to be safe that sorry. There are also several good Free programs out there that do the the same thing as Windows Live Safety Center and really do a better job but are to complicated for beginners.
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