

Those settings will show you the added offers, which are otherwise hidden. The most important thing you need to do is use Advanced (Custom) settings during installation. If you want to prevent these kinds of installations, you need to pay close attention to how you install programs. This method allows unwanted programs to install alongside legitimate ones, without users even noticing. If you do not recall installing it, it could have used the bundling method, which is essentially attaching additional offers (adware, browser hijackers, PUPs) to popular programs. Continue on to the next section of the article to find out how you can avoid these kinds of installations in the future. If you did not manually deselect it, it was permitted to install alongside. What that means is that it could have been attached to some freeware you installed as an extra offer.

It’s possible that Advanced System Repair uses the bundling method to install on users computer’s unnoticed. If you don’t intend to use it, delete Advanced System Repair. Not all programs are necessarily this way, but we do strongly recommend you check what kind of issues Advanced System Repair detects, or if they even exist before you decide to purchase it. That would not be a problem if such programs did not show fake scan results to force users to purchase the full program. However, in order to use the removal function, users first need to purchase the full version. They claim that the computer is severely infected or has a lot of issues that affect its performance, and offer to solve all those issues.

We have previously reported on programs like Power System Care, Power Speedup 2018 and Super Clean Pro 2018. There are many similar programs out there, the majority of them being outright scams that try to trick users into purchasing useless software. We will explain why more in the following sections. In any case, system optimization tools are highly questionable, and many tech-savvy users are against using them. It claims to fix various issues on your computer and improve its performance, but it may actually not do anything.

However, while it’s not malware, it’s still a highly questionable program. First of all, we should point out that it’s not a malicious program, so calling it malware would be incorrect. Advanced System Repair is a questionable system optimization tool, classified as a potentially unwanted program (PUP).
