Uninstaller Software

So it's necessary for an uninstaller to dial home every 60 seconds?

I don't think so. Color me highly suspicious. At least it uninstalled properly.

 

No, I don't know why it would be doing it so often, and every 60 seconds is certainly excessive. But, you could have always blocked the connection, and I'm sure it would have continued to work. For a free uninstaller it is excellent in my opinion - something I would not say about all of IObit's software. The link at the Malwarebytes forum showed installers from IObit being hosted at the IP address you posted.

 

It was blacked, that's how I found it was doing it. But I agree- it worked great when I tried it.

 

The Geek bug has been fixed:1.3.3.46 [2 April 2015] - Fixed wrong new version notification

 

Chemtable Soft Organizer coming to BitsDuJour:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/soft-organizer/in=upcoming-freebies

 

Maybe Smarty Uninstaller, should have a look :

http://smartuninstall.com/

 

@Ashanta It doesn't work very well, see my previous post about it.

 

Why would you not use the snapshot feature to monitor installs? Makes no sense to me not to and that's the only way I use it. TU is quite good, except for the fact (IMO) that the developer is a bit paranoid about protecting the SW. A lot of the so-called updates seem to be for that purpose only.

 

Thank you for sharing your experience, Roger.

I've just one to add that this Smarty Uninstaller comes with a back up registry features and also, a system restore function so that you can't harm your computer.

 

I'm still at a loss here on what to switch to since Advanced Uninstaller seems to be installing payloads, and has nagware. Going to version 11.21 of Advanced Uninstaller was my old standby, but it seems to be breaking more and more with windows updates.

Come on guys, I'm desperate. Revo sucks, and is not an answer. Geek sucks, and rarely works right for me.

 

Try mirekusoft, Soft Organizer (there will soon be a deal on bitsdujour) or Iobit to see which works for you.

 

I tried this program.. Man it's good!!

I was ready to buy the family pack, but will wait for the deal I guess. This may be my new uninstall guy.

 

I ran some tests. Iobit didn't do nearly as well as Chemtable, and Chemtable does better than AUP as well. IObit has a habit of sending data to a couple different IP addresses, one of which is listed in some malware databases.

So it looks like I found my new uninstaller.

Thanks

 

No probs. I perefer SO as paid, Iobit is the best free alternative I've found so far.

 

I also signed up and will see how this goes and if it truly what it says it is??
thank you for the website and program

 

Revo and IObit also can create restore points. I don't let them create restore points, as it's quicker not to (and I uninstall a lot of software). I actually manually verify any found leftovers before deleting anything, to make sure that nothing needed gets deleted.

 

If monitoring was completely automatic like CPM, I'd use it too. What really impressed me about CPM, was that monitoring of installs was completely automatic. You install a program and it gets monitored with no user action required. It's only natural that an uninstaller which monitors installs will find more leftovers than uninstallers which don't use monitoring.

 

The reason I wan't using it, is that taking before and after snapshots of an install takes time. This is why I prefer uninstallers which monitor changes made during an install, rather than taking snapshots. I just used TU to monitor an installation and it added over a minute to the install time. This would probably not be an issue for a lot of people. But, it is for me as I'm install a lot of software - probably about 25 programs in the last week alone.

 

For those that want Soft Organizer now, I found a 60% off coupon code for lifetime license that works for all versions. Drops the family pack down to $26!

CHEM-XYNI-DQTH

How is their Reg Organizer, which comes with Soft Organizer integrated? It's only a few bucks more for that with the coupon.

 

@Mayahana I don't recommend using Reg Organizer as it has always had issue with false positives. There is also a free version of Reg Organizer called Registry Life, which also has issues with false positives.

I even emailed the developer several months back about the false positives and didn't receive a reply.

 

Alright, thanks. I will stick to their uninstaller - which I find excellent so far.

 

Soft Organizer free at Bits Du Jour today: http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/soft-organizer/in=today-100-percent

 

thank you! has anyone installed this yet, wondering how much is loaded with 'Bits Du Jour' advertising?? ect.ect..
I will wait and see what gives

 

Installed it on one of my computers, haven't seen any advertisement at all.

 

Installed Soft Organizer free at Bits Du Jour in a VM took a snapshot before and after with SysTracer pro and did not find anything suspicious or out of the norm.