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Roger Thompson_544
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I believe this problem was caused by a program I downloaded to repair problems in my file structure. I am an avid user of DAZ 3D. Several of my files in there had become out of place so that they needed put into their proper folders. I contacted DAZ support about this, and was led to an plugin that was supposed to re-categorize my files in DAZ 3D. The problem was the link to the plugin when you clicked on it took you to a program called 'Advanced System Repair Pro'. Looking back at the page with the plugin name I saw in tiny letters underneath the plugin that the plugin was now supplied by this program above. I now believe the link was on a fake page that had been substituted for the plugin page. Maybe by the company that produces Advanced System Repair Pro, or somebody promoting them because after I started discovering how much this program had screwed up my system I contacted DAZ and they had no idea what I was talking about. The plugin should have been exactly what it was stated to be, and the ones I chatted with had no idea about ASRPro. Anyway I thought at the time this was legit, and downloaded the repair program. They offered a one time free fix for several problems it said was in my system after the initial scan, and afterward you had to pay for the service. I selected the one time fix and had to wait 3 days for a code that would run the fix. During the 3 day wait I got ad's popping up in everything I did wanting you to pay for the service on a regular basis. In fact i couldn't run anything else on my system without constantly being interrupted by these ad's and my systems resources were slowing down. I had to disable the program for the 3 days so I could run my computer. Also when you tried to close the ad's with the little X in the corner something that worked like the mouseover function in Javascript would make the ad disappear and reappear somewhere else on the page before you could click the close button. I couldn't get rid of it except to disable the program for those 3 days. Finally the 3 day wait was over, I got my free fix code, and ran the fix program. It did as advertised to a point but actually put my DAZ files in the wrong places. I had to do it all manually last night. ALL NIGHT! Anyway when I realized I had been snookered I tried to uninstall the program. Btw the ad's were still popping up everywhere even though they were now supposed to be fixed. After doing some checking I found out there was never anything wrong with them in the first place. I tried to uninstall the program as I said, but every time my cursor got anywhere near the uninstall button I kept getting more ad's popping up begging me not to uninstall, and I could have their service for a special price. I ignored that, and did the uninstall finally but the uninstall only took a second to complete. It was too easy!!! Running my anti-spyware program I discovered there was still 2 registry keys to it and 12,000 temporary files in my system. The anti-spyware got rid of the registry keys, but could not get rid of the temp files because they were in use even right after startup of the system. Since then several of my programs I use all the time refuse to open because they say I do not have permission to use them even though my permissions in my system say otherwise, and I also cannot use file explorer for anything. It tries to work, but the green search bar vanishes after only a second, and no search is being done. Beware this program!!! Do not allow it on your systems because it is my firm belief it caused all of this. I'm going to try to include images taken from my Autoruns program that show what programs run at system startup. Several of the ones highlighted in pink are things that cannot be verified as being from where they say they are. Even ones from Windows update. Oh and when I checked the dates of these unverified ones. All within the last few days since I installed that program.
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