I am using Auslogics BoostSpeed 5 to clear registry and remove junk files. Norton gives the following alarm:
"File insight
$$$220.tmp
A program was behaving suspiciously on your computer. This program was blocked and removed."
My boost speed program seems to continue and finish properly.
Anyone who has experienced this?
I've no experience of Auslogic or interaction with Norton but I belirve very strongly that such programs that purport to clean up the registry are very dangerous unless you know more about things like the registry than the utility does! I'vew seen too many user reports that they can't run Windows after cleaning up the registry. I really doubt sometimes if even Microsoft knows what goes on in there!
Note also that some of the function I saw listed just now when I looked the product up are duplicated in Norton -- disk defrag and cleaning up junk files for example -- as well as in Windows itself (Windows 7 runs defrag automatically in the background and although you may see fragmentation reported if you run another program that can be due to differences in how detected.
The reason Norton reports on it is probably because Norton is protecting you agains actions known to be typical of malware, like messing with the Windows system ......
Hello Hugh
Thank you for your comments. My experience is also that Norton considers the clean-up program to be malicious. I have checked several "clean-up" programs due to extreme slow-down during normal use, particularly for Windows XP. In one case only did I experience start-up problems, after using a Microsoft recommended (!) program, Uniblue. The problems were, however easily overcome. My current Auslogics BoostSpeed seems to work seamlessly with my Windows 7, and after applying the miscellaneous facilities, I always get a considerable start-up speed increase.
When it comes to Microsoft and the handling of registry intricacies, I think a more proper address would be Intel or AMD. I'm afraid I do not belong to any Microsoft fan club to be honest. I have used Microsoft operating systems (not my choices) since DOS 1.0 and I think Microsoft's professionality in writing DEPENDABLE software, in general, should have been CONSIDERABLY better than the case is.
Best regards
Torleif
Speeding startup is perhaps one of the few things that can be helped but usually you can do it yourself in msconfig which leaves the entries there in case you want them back.