 Alright, so Mailerbytes has decided that PC Pitstop or PCmatic, which is the software made by PCpitstop, is a potentially unwanted program. We refer them for short as Pups, and what potentially unwanted programs are generally junkware that you don't really want on your computer, that doesn't really help anything, and often these are software that want money to fix imaginary problems with your computer. Now, they have a very detail on the Mailerbytes post, which is the why Mailerbytes detects PCpitstop as a potentially unwanted program. Though, let's just start at the beginning. First, PCmatic likes to claim there's all kinds of magical registry cleaning you need, and Microsoft themselves has come out and said, no, you don't need some magical registry cleaner, and they do that because they give you optimization reports and ask for money to optimize your computer. We're going to get to all this at the end because I'm going to show you a demo of the software running. They also go through and claiming all kinds of things about temp files and cookies. They don't have a working trial, silent removal of necessary applications. Mailerbytes broke this down and literally are letting you know that PCmatic does things such as disabling Windows Defragment Service and offering to sell you their Defragment Service, which is not a good idea to disable the built-in one. It disabled updates for Chrome and some other programs by not allowing Chrome to automatically update the browser. You're actually leaving your computer less secure. So how does a security company like PCmatic make the claim? We're doing a service by doing this. It has all kinds of things. I mean, I have a lot of details on all the stuff in here, but I also decided to look at the response that PCmatic had. And it's almost amusing. The guy starts out, I'm assuming the owner, Robert Chang, is who wrote this. It's Chang Rob is what it says as the author for this. My son is a nine-year-old in fourth grade. Imagine he comes home from school and announces that he is super smart and I no longer to take tests. He smiles, then begins to terrorize the other students, preventing them from studying and taking tests. As a parent, what do you do? Well, that's Mailerbytes. That says opening line and tries to make an argument that there aren't all the things that they say. Well, I went through the website. It's so full of vague information and marketing speak. It kind of is hard to decipher. I also found this interesting. So under other blog posts, which they link lots of internal blog posts to each other, they don't really link much outside of their website, which is confusing. Because if I have an accolade like I break the record on VB100 Wrap Test that I would link to that. They only link to an archive where you have to dig through and find where this information that they talk about beating the tests and being number one is. So that links to this archive here and then to the archive results. Like I said, I had to do a little bit of digging. I already went through here. And then we found out PCMatic 2014, which just jumped back in case you didn't see this. This is the April 2014. April 2014. They failed the test. They do not get an award from the virus bolts and people because they failed the test. And of course, let's read the details. PT7, blah, blah, blah, participating now and managed the threat track. Well, let's get to the bottom. Detection was superb in Wrap Test. And that's the reason they did give them a higher score in Wrap Test, but they didn't rock the world with it. And basically what they say is, because they're using a weight-lessing system, it just flags everything and stops the computer from working. And they even, sadly, the high-detraction rates. And it talks about all the common software with the computers that it stopped from working. So it's kind of like saying, sure, we beat the test because we made your computer so unusable you couldn't do anything with it. How are they bragging about that as they win? It says Big X didn't win this competition between the other antiviruses that did win. And they also make wild claims that they are substantially, the next best score was 87%. Let me look here. It's this page here. 93% right here under it. I didn't go through all of them, but I can tell you that there's a 95 and this one's a 93. They're wrong there. They're just throwing numbers out there, I guess. I'm not sure. But they do and have reviewed PCMatic home security, and it actually doesn't pass most of the time. They didn't submit it to every one of the testing rounds at the VB100 testing suite, but they failed here's a 2016, 2000, 10, 8, 6. Each time they've submitted, fail, fail, fail, high-wrap scores, but they comment on some of these. Every one of these, if you want, and they don't really have anything great to say of it as a product. The vendor participated in eight of the most recent 12 tests. So I also dug around because they make some other claims, and let's find it. So they have the VB-Wolton RAP test. They also make reference to, on some of the other ones, this is the VB-Wolton RAP test. Again, they have a video about that they're smashing a score for April 2016, which is still this 87.7% is back to, once again, not matching the scores here, which is 95%. It's so confusing where he pulls his numbers from because they just don't make any sense. I also found another reference where they said they use the independent test of antivirus software, the AV-Comparatives test. Well, I couldn't find them referenced in there at all, but let's find a site where they reference themselves. So here says, AV-Comparatives test for October 2016. So in over two AV-Comparatives, they don't have an October 2016 test. At first, I didn't find it, I should say. The way their testing suite works, they test in September, March. September, March. September, March. See the pattern? They don't happen to test then. So I was confused. So when I looked at the test results, which all this is public, you can find this on AV-Comparatives.org. I noticed in the list is not, and I know it's hard to read here, but if you read through some of these, they're not in a list. They didn't test PCMatic. So then I found some Google searching, and apparently PCMatic paid for a commission test. But still, it's September, and it's a specifically paid for test. It's right in the intro. This report has been commissioned by PCMatic. So there is a review. Doesn't match the date in the video here. So this is a September 2016 test, October 2016 test. Maybe they tested it and published it in there. Okay, so we'll give the guy some leeway on that. And they did find 100% of the viruses on there. That's not actually inaccurate. So the viruses they were specifically tested through this paid commission test is on here, but they don't regularly submit their systems to the AV-Comparatives. They apparently paid them for one test. Back to the companies full of marketing speak. That just sets me off a little bit when I see a company so full of marketing speak. Because it's so hard to figure out the convoluted talking they do of, we did this and we smashed this test and we won it. But when you go to the websites, one, they didn't link to them. Two, when you have to dig around like I did to find this information, you find out they didn't win and none of the numbers match. I'm just confused. Maybe they can clarify this for me. That would be great. My point is I'm going to run a demo here and just kind of show you what it does. Because I trust Miller Bytes as a company and they seem to have done a pretty good job. But I'm going to just run the sample on a brand new clean load of Windows 10 and show you what the software looks like and kind of what it does and maybe doesn't do. And go from there. Let's check it out. So this is a clean load of Windows 10. The only thing I have loaded in this virtual system is the drivers for virtual box. So I haven't loaded anything else in here. We're going to open up PCMatic and download and run it. Go ahead, save. Wait for it to finish scanning. I did leave the Windows Defender enabled. So it scanned it with the Windows Defender built-in antivirus for Windows, which doesn't flag it. Install. Sure, next. I accept. I also noticed it's a x86 program, not a 64. I noticed that one was installing. Don't need this open anymore. Now this is their free scan because they don't actually offer a demo. All right. As far as interfaces go, I can shop. I can support. I can get a free scan. I can log in. Apparently if I have an account. But none of that's clickable. Apparently they're Vista 10, 8 compatible. I haven't bothered putting the Windows 10 logo on here. So let's run their free scan. And what I want to do is let this go. But I will fast forward some of it just so you're not waiting for the bars to go across. Except for the 3D part. I've run this before and the 3D part's kind of funny. I'll show that one in real time. Yeah, this part's just funny. The way it drops all the text all over the place. Next, it's going to start this whole 3D performance thing. It's going to do where it spins ugly 3D boxes around reminiscent of the Windows tests. Like the Windows screensaver they had. It's just hideous. Why is it doing that? Yeah. This is their strange 3D test. I don't know. It's kind of funny. I like to watch it. It's the only good thing so far I got it out of this product. They have a fun 3D test. All right. We have 10 fixes and one advice available. Apparently, I have this read really funny. First we have internet TCP settings. Adjust browser parameters for faster internet browsing. I think they probably mean not adjusting browser. That's in the network stack for DNS and TCP settings. Most fragmented files. Extreme fragmentation. Extreme frag. It's a virtual disk. I really doubt it's actually that fragmented. So 13% fragmented. Virtual box guest additions service automatic change to manual. Power plan setting. It's set to balance and should be set to high performance. And advice system restore test disabled enabled. They're actually not wrong about that. I installed this Windows 10 virtual box in a really small hard drive. And by default it seems like when you install Windows 10 on a just big enough hard drive it doesn't turn on system resource. I would actually correct about that. That that's not on. It's kind of like the way it reads. It's 500 frags and stuff like that on here. I don't know. Maybe there is some fragmentation. It just reads kind of funny. But per member bytes they don't want the Microsoft to do it. They want to sell you another product in order to do this. Because it's right away. If I go to fix all it only has options to buy. I guess you know that some people may think it's a deal. You can optimize at the five computers with PCmatic annual. And it could continue. There's not really anything else you can do. Anything you do is going to take your website to buy it. So the interesting service test. It just really, really vague. The report's not detailed at all. It's not. It does kind of gives you that there's fixes, user readings. I'm currently at the bottom 48% of my World Rank PC. I don't really know why. Granted it's a virtual box. I know the 3D video is really bad. But this is an eight core CPU, which is reasonably fast. I have four cores dedicated to the virtual machine here. So apparently I, with only having that many cores on here. Yeah, that's, it's not the newest machine, but still kind of odd. So nonetheless, this is the PCmatic install software. I'm not impressed with them at all. I still completely understand why Mailerbytes wants to remove them as a program. Especially if they're going around disabling things like updates and wanting to turn off my virtual box drivers to not update. I don't understand. Generally you want manufacturer driver updates or browser updates to occur. So them turning it off, that's not so good. So my final thoughts on PCmatic. Yes, you should remove it. I hope this video helps you before you give money to this person. And I'm just thoroughly unimpressed with it. I just kind of see all the marketing speak and all the BS here as this garbage. So we're going to, we're going to hopefully, this video was helpful to you. Hopefully you didn't give money to these folks because I'm not that impressed. Passing security tests by making the computer unusable isn't really passing security tests to me. Yeah, not, not really impressed. So I've highly recommend maybe another product. Matter of fact, Mailerbytes, they're a great product. They do care a lot about security. They've had a great reputation. We've used their software for a long time. And hopefully this video was helpful to you and have a great day. If you like the content here, like and subscribe. I'm going to finish destroying this website. Take out a little bit of aggression here. Bye now. No, no.