The 10 Days of Home Edition Version 2 – Smarter Hard Drive Cleanup!
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- Written on: February 21st, 2007
This post is the eigth in a 10-post series about the all-new version 2 of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) computer maintenance software from Schrock Innovations. You can win a FREE 2-year subscription by simply posting a comment on any of the MCHE posts. Only one free subscription will be given away, so post multiple comments or questions with your valid email address to increase your odds of winning!
A major strength of the 2005 Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) was its ability to strip away all unnecessary files from your hard drive in order to maximize your available disk space. The all-new version 2 of the MCHE does the same thorough job that its predecessor did, although it is a bit smarter about when it deletes the temporary files from your hard drive.
The 2005 version of the MCHE deleted your cookies, temporary files, Windows patch uninstall files, and in some cases more every time it was executed. The all-new MCHE version 2 deletes the same items once they have expired.
The 10 Days of Home Edition Version 2 – No False Detections!
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- Written on: February 20th, 2007
This post is the seventh in a 10-post series about the all-new version 2 of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition (MCHE) computer maintenance software from Schrock Innovations. You can win a FREE 2-year subscription by simply posting a comment on any of the MCHE posts. Only one free subscription will be given away, so post multiple comments or questions with your valid email address to increase your odds of winning!
A major problem with many anti-malware programs is false detections. A false detection is when a program tells you a file pr process is attacking your computer when in fact it is not. Our software engineers have invested significant effort in creating systems that prevent the MCHE from making a detection mistake. Their approach was to tackle the problem from two different angles.
First, it is incredibly helpful to have as much information in our detection database as possible. That is why the MCHE learns from every piece of malware it removes. Each time a threat is resolved on your computer that has not been encountered before , the MCHE takes a fingerprint of the file or files it removes. This fingerprint is called a hash. Rather than scanning for a particular file name, the MCHE scans for these fingerprints and therefore reduces the risk of making a detection mistake.
