Unwanted Windows visitors...

[Jim and Pat German]

Hi Friends!

I paid $87.00 for a software program called "ASCENTIVE". It may have helped
SPEED UP my computer a little...and I mean VERY LITTLE!!! I just wasted
money signing up for this 4 part computer cleanup program.

Now ASCENTIVE invites it's self ON TO my computer when I do not want the
various 4 programs to SHOW UP. I turn on my computer and give the computer
plenty of SLOW TIME to get set up for me to see our new main on INBOX.

What should JUMP UP on the screen but ONE or ALL FOUR programs EVEN WHEN I
DO NOT WANT THE PROGRAMS TO APPEAR ON THE SCREEN. The ASCENTIVE PROGRAMS
come on the screen covering up or rooting out the program I am trying to
see.

HOW DO YOU STOP A PROGRAM FROM POPPING UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN WHEN YOU
DO NOT WANT THEM THERE??? I only want them when I click on their various
ICONS.

Thankyou for your help!!!! James M. German...retired farmer and
professional chromatic harmonica player.......CD FOR SALE AT --->

http://www.oldchristianmusic.com/mproductpages/james-german--favorite-hymns-on-harmonica.html

 

[Bill Ridgeway]

Hi Friends!

I paid $87.00 for a software program called "ASCENTIVE". It may have
helped SPEED UP my computer a little...and I mean VERY LITTLE!!! I just
wasted money signing up for this 4 part computer cleanup program.

Now ASCENTIVE invites it's self ON TO my computer when I do not want the
various 4 programs to SHOW UP. I turn on my computer and give the
computer plenty of SLOW TIME to get set up for me to see our new main on
INBOX.

What should JUMP UP on the screen but ONE or ALL FOUR programs EVEN WHEN I
DO NOT WANT THE PROGRAMS TO APPEAR ON THE SCREEN. The ASCENTIVE PROGRAMS
come on the screen covering up or rooting out the program I am trying to
see.

HOW DO YOU STOP A PROGRAM FROM POPPING UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN WHEN YOU
DO NOT WANT THEM THERE??? I only want them when I click on their various
ICONS.

Thankyou for your help!!!! James M. German...retired farmer and
professional chromatic harmonica player.......CD FOR SALE AT --->

http://www.oldchristianmusic.com/mproductpages/james-german--favorite-hymns-on-harmonica.html

James.

You could uninstall the program. I would guess that most of the routines
you could do yourself. (Have a look at my information sheet at
www.1001solutions.co.uk/best_tips_for_keeping_problems_at-bay.pdf)

You could stop the program starting at boot up (and, therefore, cutting in
when you least want it). To do this click on <Start><Run> Type msconfig
Click on <OK><Startup> and untick the offending program.

Bill Ridgeway

 

[Gerry]

Which product did you buy?
http://www.ascentive.com/products/all_products/index.html

They all look like junk and could potentially cause more problems than
they solve!


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[DL]

Uninstall the junk program you were conned into buying
A search for Ascentive on the MS Certified Partner list failed to find any
such Company in the US
http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/ascentive-v-1shoppingcartcom

 

[Gerry]

DL

It may be junk but what do you say about this:
http://www.ascentive.com/about_us/contact_us.html

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Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Twayne]

Uninstall the junk program you were conned into buying
A search for Ascentive on the MS Certified Partner list failed to
find any such Company in the US
http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/ascentive-v-1shoppingcartcom

Actually, that's a pro-Ascentive page. It's about suits Ascentive has
brought or tried to bring against others and lists some of the things
that others have said about Ascentive.

That said however, I suspect AScentive is simply pulling some
pre-emptive strike methodologies because it sees the writing on the
wall. It's fairly obvious IMO from Ascentive's site that their
offerings do nothing that the normal computer user can't learn to do
easily and in fairly short order with a little research. More than one
of those products are obvious ripoffs too, offering RAM manipulation,
etc.. I'd be very leary of their software, actually.

Worse than that, their site is listed on two blocklists, and this
synopsis of them is rather interesting (from Robtex):
------------
ascentive.com is a domain controlled by three nameservers at he.net. All
of them are on the same IP network. Incoming mail for ascentive.com is
handled by one mailserver also at he.net. ascentive.com has one IP
record. he.net, tdl.com, iwph.com, forget.it, narsad.org and at least 52
other hosts share nameservers with this domain. azure.he.net share
mailservers with this domain. www.ascentive.com, envoy.ascentive.com,
access.ascentive.com, envoy1.ascentive.com, stage6.ascentive.com and at
least ten other hosts are subdomains to this hostname. com is a domain
controlled by 13 nameservers at gtld-servers.net. There are four
duplicate IP numbers. Some of them are on the same IP network.
--------------
and,
-------------
contact information for ascentive.com
(e-mail address removed) (responsible for he.net,ascentive.com)
-------------

I found one entry about their programs being hard to remove from a
computer, and another that they "call" for a lot of other programs to
download onto one's computer. One report compared them to the GAIN
spyware w/r to methodologies, and I've had some (bad) experience with
them. GAIN is another company that is clearly spyware and tracking
related, and like Ascentive, has initiated many lawsuits against the
makes of spyware detectors. AFAIK with no success, but it delays things
enough for them to keep on doing business.
With the exception of articles they wrote themselves, I can only find
negative information online about Ascentive. If you'd like to see some
of it, enter the following into a Google Search box:

problems: Ascentive.com ascentive.net

Just the first page is an eye opener once you get past their own
articles.


It's pretty unfortunate, but my suggestion would be to remove the
program and go after Ascentive for your money back on the basis that it
did not do what it claimed to do, as you've already mentioned, and
you'll see others have also on Google.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi Friends!

I paid $87.00 for a software program called "ASCENTIVE". It may have helped
SPEED UP my computer a little...and I mean VERY LITTLE!!! I just wasted
money signing up for this 4 part computer cleanup program.

Now ASCENTIVE invites it's self ON TO my computer when I do not want the
various 4 programs to SHOW UP. I turn on my computer and give the computer
plenty of SLOW TIME to get set up for me to see our new main on INBOX.

What should JUMP UP on the screen but ONE or ALL FOUR programs EVEN WHEN I
DO NOT WANT THE PROGRAMS TO APPEAR ON THE SCREEN. The ASCENTIVE PROGRAMS
come on the screen covering up or rooting out the program I am trying to
see.

HOW DO YOU STOP A PROGRAM FROM POPPING UP ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN WHEN YOU
DO NOT WANT THEM THERE??? I only want them when I click on their various
ICONS.

Although I don't know Ascentive in particular, my experience with such
programs is that they are all junk. Besides doing nothing useful, they
are often dangerous. I see from their web site that it includes
registry cleaning functionality, which is *extremely* dangerous.
Here's my standard post on the subject:

Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the
registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and
don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

So my advice is to uninstall all of it, and not run it again.

 

[The Real Truth MVP]

http://pcbutts1.com/downloads/fu.htm

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*WARNING* Do NOT follow any advice given by the people listed below.
They do NOT have the expertise or knowledge to fix your issue. Do not waste
your time.
David H Lipman, Malke, PA Bear, Beauregard T. Shagnasty, Leythos.

 

[Leonard Grey]

And there's another reason why Patrick, alias Patrick Christopher, alias
Chrissy, alias pcbutts1, a well-known phony MVP and software plagiarizer
should never be trusted.

 

[The Real Truth MVP]

http://pcbutts1.com/downloads/fu.htm

Thanks for visiting my website.

--
The Real Truth http://pcbutts1-therealtruth.blogspot.com/
*WARNING* Do NOT follow any advice given by the people listed below.
They do NOT have the expertise or knowledge to fix your issue. Do not waste
your time.
David H Lipman, Malke, PA Bear, Beauregard T. Shagnasty, Leythos.

 

[Leonard Grey]

I know better than to patronize your filthy pornography.

 

[Twayne]

Although I don't know Ascentive in particular, my experience with such
programs is that they are all junk. Besides doing nothing useful, they
are often dangerous. I see from their web site that it includes
registry cleaning functionality, which is *extremely* dangerous.
Here's my standard post on the subject:

Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the
registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and
don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,
having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

So my advice is to uninstall all of it, and not run it again.

LOL, what Bruce means is here's his boilerplate of myths and
misinformation about registry cleaners, the ONLY thing he posts about
any more. Though asked many times by many people he has never provided
one iota of evidence to support any of his claims. It always makes me
laugh when I see his ridicuolous claims and those of a small group of
other closed minds and sock puppets that he surrounds himself with. He's
about as maroon colored as they come and IF he's an actual MVP it's
awfully interesting that he gets away with a lot of the comments he
makes. To see some of those, look him up on Google.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

Who are you impostering these days, buttsy?

http://pcbutts1.com/downloads/fu.htm

 

[Twayne]

http://pcbutts1.com/downloads/fu.htm

Thanks for visiting my website.

How come I didn't get accolades for visiting?

Leonard said it the best:
Notice to the inexperienced: Do NOT visit that web site.

 

[Unknown]

LOL, what Bruce means is here's his boilerplate of myths and
misinformation about registry cleaners, the ONLY thing he posts about any
more. Though asked many times by many people he has never provided one
iota of evidence to support any of his claims.

But, you haven't provided one iota of evidence to prove him wron.

It always makes me laugh when I see his ridicuolous claims and those of a
small group of other closed minds and sock puppets that he surrounds
himself with. He's about as maroon colored as they come and IF he's an
actual MVP it's awfully interesting that he gets away with a lot of the
comments he makes. To see some of those, look him up on Google.

Don't you think a lot of us laugh at you when you merely talk about his
claims rather than prove them wrong?
Are you a 'know it all' that merely talks but can't prove anything?
Who are you trying to impress?

 

[DL]

I meant failed to find the Company as shown in Certified Partner List (USA)

 

[Gerry]

DL

Yes I thought you meant something like that.

Their site, however, carries the Microsoft Certified Partner logo or
what I take to be the logo. Of course there are innocent and other
explanations for what you found ( or did not find ) and what is
displayed on their web site. That is the point I was trying to make.




Gerry
~~~~
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Twayne]

But, you haven't provided one iota of evidence to prove him wron.


Don't you think a lot of us laugh at you when you merely talk about
his claims rather than prove them wrong?
Are you a 'know it all' that merely talks but can't prove anything?
Who are you trying to impress?

See, I don't care if people laugh; no big deal to me.
Nope, not a know it all at all; but one of the things I do know is that
one bit of misinformaiton when I see it.

I've already provided my proof; it's someone else's turn now. I even
posted two white-papers on the subject. What can you provide?
You see, it's not you I want to pursuade. Nor is it even the closed
minded ignorants. My only purpose is to expose the misinformation
touted by the small group of dummies here who not only know better but
are unable to see reality.
And who am I trying to impress? Absolutely no one. I simply believe
in the truth and logic.

Twayne

 

[Unknown]

See, I don't care if people laugh; no big deal to me.
Nope, not a know it all at all; but one of the things I do know is that
one bit of misinformaiton when I see it.

I've already provided my proof; it's someone else's turn now. I even
posted two white-papers on the subject. What can you provide?
You see, it's not you I want to pursuade. Nor is it even the closed
minded ignorants. My only purpose is to expose the misinformation touted
by the small group of dummies here who not only know better but are unable
to see reality.
And who am I trying to impress? Absolutely no one. I simply believe in
the truth and logic.

You absolutely refuse to accept truth and logic. Registry cleaners have
caused many
serious damage to systems. When pointed out, you simply ignore and then
you tout them.
Then you say you believe in truth and logic???????