Iobit ASC Meltdown claim BS or careful wording?

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by zapjb, Jan 14, 2018.

  1. zapjb

    zapjb Registered Member

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    Got this popup from Iobit Driver Booster today:
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    BS or careful wording?
     
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  2. roger_m

    roger_m Registered Member

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    DB1.png

    I got this notification this morning from Driver Booster, which gave me the option to install the patch from Microsoft.

    As for ASC being able to fix things like this, it can, as seen below with a patch for WannaCry last year.

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    ASC WannaCry e.png

    I installed ASC on two vulnerable systems this morning and got no offer to patch the system for Meltdown, but maybe if I had left the systems running, in time I would have received an alert.
     
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  3. bigwrench9

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    I got 1 offer to patch, (on a win 10 laptop that has windows updates turned off)... Took 10 minutes or so for the patch to install, hit reboot, all went well.
    Installed the same patches for wanna cry on same laptop.
    No issues.....
     
  4. Firecat

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    They should consider renaming their company two-bit, because IoBit frankly has a lot of snake oil in it's product marketing.
     
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    :argh: :D
     
  6. Brummelchen

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  7. roger_m

    roger_m Registered Member

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    It is very rare for Driver Booster or Wise Driver Care to install incompatible drivers.
     
  8. Fly

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    @Brummelchen ,

    Agreed.

    It's really all junk.

    As for Drive Booster, if they cannot even write in proper English ...

    Less is more. Except that I'd never go without a proper imaging system.
     
  9. ttomm1946

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    Great English!!! :eek:
     
  10. roger_m

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    Well they are Chinese.
     
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