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July 18, 2007
New White Paper on Diskeeper and Windows Vista
Windows IT Pro recently researched and published a new paper evaluating Diskeeper on the new Windows Vista operating system. You can view the paper (sponsored by Diskeeper Corporation) here.
We are also wrapping up another study, done in-house by our Development Testers, evaluating the improvement to anti-malware scan times when using Diskeeper. Check out our Knowledge Center in a couple of weeks to read it.
Posted by Michael at July 18, 2007 12:03 AM
Comments
I had the preconceived notion that this product was one of the very few that can be download from the internet that was safe. I was "WRONG".
I downloaded this product to do the job it claims to do. With this download came a Trojan Horse that almost destroyed my system.
If you recieve a message that states: "Stera cannot be found", you have a Trojan Horse.
After talking with Dell and Microsoft for many, many hours, we finally can to the conclusion that this virus "Stera" came from downloading this product.
Please use extreme caution with this product. It sounds great. However, the hours you spend and money you will spend...not just for the product, but for the man hours microsoft or any other company that you will pay if you want your computer back...it is not worth it!!!!
Posted by: Robaire at July 19, 2007 08:18 PM
Well, I'm not privy to the subject matter of the hours of discussion you had with the support staff at Dell or Microsoft, but 'stera' is an executable that comes from a software product that pretends to eliminate malicious software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFixer
Diskeeper does NOT have spyware or trojans or any malicious software. PERIOD.
Sunbelt Software is a leader in anti-spyware technology. If you don't want to take wikipedia's word for it (and I can understand that), read Sunbelt's technical data on where "stera" comes from. http://research.sunbelt-software.com/threatdisplay.aspx?threatid=44353
On that note, if you receive a message that "program X" cannot be found at system start up, the program in question has already been removed. In your case, you have a legitimate anti-spyware technology that has cleaned up (at least in part) the crap that WinAntiVirus Pro put on your PC.
Posted by: michael at July 25, 2007 07:07 PM
Don't mean to hijack this thread, but I dont know where else to post this. A quick question for the folks here who are experts in fragmentation and HDD technology:
Does NCQ on the newer SATA drives help in reducing fragmentation, or the impact of fragmentation on HDD performance?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I have run across this subject recently on a few sites, and I thoroughly confused about what NCQ does to fragmentation.
Posted by: Durian at July 27, 2007 10:24 AM
Great Question Durian. I'll write a new blog topic on this!
Posted by: michael at August 1, 2007 02:22 AM