I’ve got what used to be IObit Uninstaller and IObit Systemcare installed on some machines.
I believe this company is now called iTop and they also offer a VPN.
It seems to work relatively well but it’s definitely got a few annoying pop ups trying to sell you their “pro” versions.
Other than being annoying in that way, are these products safe? I can’t find much about them online either way.
Their software isn’t safe. When I installed the driver updater, it installed about five other programs that I never wanted to install.
I work helping people fault find and fix issues with computers (public facing not b2b), and quite often when there’s an issue with stuff like printers, emails or just general fuckery, it’s usually down to a PuP like IOBit software or some driver update bullshit that does nothing
Personally, I would never use them
And when I get someone call with issues and I see those, the first thing I do is run RevoUninstaller to completely get rid of them - fixes a lot of issues
I noticed iTop vpn tries to contact these IP addresses in Russia every 4 mins.
45.91.67.94
45.144.3.211
45.87.104.42
194.116.190.84
45.144.3.168
I’ve been using their products such as advanced system care, defrag and uninstaller for a decade now, and I can tell you advanced system care used to be faster and probably more effective back in the day compared to now. Now it takes forever to clean your system. However their pop-ups are the worst. So intrusive, they will pop up anytime when there is an update, like in the middle of the screen, always on top, no matter if you play a game, or watch a movie or… whatever you are doing that pop-up will appear right in your face, like it’s the most important thing in the whole world.
not safe, popup not closable
I had installed iobit’s driver updating app a few days ago… I still have it. I’ve used iobit on and off for like 15+ years I think? I’ve always had to hack together machines myself. I grew up poor. So with low-end machines, I’d often have to resort to using junky-kind-of software like iobit.
When I installed the iobit driver booster app, I was offered a free year pro subscription to this iTop VPN. They asked for my email, they sent me an email with a link claiming to lead me to my free year subscription to iTop pro version. How could I refuse? I’m broke and I would love a free VPN for a year. I’d like to read news from every country by downloading local news from all over the world and using translators to actually read it. Yes, I actually care about that kind of thing. I like science and to know how humans are doing because I care about them.
I installed iTop and it offered me some recording app thing, and I was like screw it sure I might record a video some day. Then it installed that and like 1 or 2 other apps that I didn’t approve or want. That sketched me out. I removed those apps eventually.
So, to really address your question, “is it safe?” I think yes that it is “safe.” in that it won’t hurt you or kill you or your PC in any way… I do not believe it is a virus. Yes, it can be somewhat annoying. But all you have to do is say no to their offers, and adjust the settings in the app. I don’t get anymore popups from it. I haven’t really used it yet because I’m using a free 7 day VPN trial from another company lol…
You can also right click on the mini bar thing that iTop opens up with it, and click close mini bar or whatever it says. When you close iTop that bar still remains, but yeah just close that too. No more popups. I’m sure you can mess with the settings to change that too.
I haven’t signed up with them yet. I might have to use a code or something to claim my free pro account. I’m not sure yet. I’m using Brave browser VPN while I can. I will at least test iTop later tonight (it’s 5:06PM here currently) and post an update. I’ll run full scans on all the files, and research thoroughly to see if there are any bugs, malware, spyware, anything weird in the source code, and all that jazz. I’m not a professional, but I will ask someone who does know about programming. They’re actually the same person that introduced me to ibiot I think…
(Perhaps TLDR for some, but interesting imo: To be honest, they’ve always kind of come off as spamware, and I recently read a series of posts about how the company is actually owned by the Chinese government… and the funny thing is, the company actually responded to the claims from the person and an argument went on… The details were actually quite interesting, and tbh it does seem that the company may be partially owned by the Chinese government, but I mean that doesn’t really matter. The US government and military invest in technology too, so what? Every country’s government invests in it’s local technology because it would be stupid not to… Anyone that has studied basic economics, politics, history, anthropology… or anyone that’s ever played a friggin RTS game like Total War or Age of Empires, or simcity kind of games knows this lol… It’s not like a conspiracy to take over the world with iobit and tiktok… people are just stupid and want something stupid to be afraid of because they’re bored… Anyways…) -Link to referenced allegations: https://forums.iobit.com/topic/13634-oh-my-god-iobit-is-owned-by-the-chinese-government/
I think the itop desktop is good, because if you have old fkd 8.1 and you want to refresh the style of it and tweak it: you can just install it and create boxes with files, games and any other categories of files. Im used it 1 month and nothing happened, the taskmgr shows nothing suspect(exclude the stupid live wallpaper-) But i didn’t recommend to buy license from it. You can easily crack it(its illegal but it can exclude the moment even with scam company)
For example you can delete shitty lang.dat in the driver booster, find the key on internet and enjoy it by activating. (Sorry if my english grammar is bad)
I have run the IOBIT suite of software for close to 10 years and have had absolutely no issues with any part of it. The thing that bugs me the most however, is the marketing of the ITOP software everytime I do an update. I use Driver Booster and it causes no issues but it does seem to “find” drivers that need updated. I just update them and move on. NO ISSUES. I haven’t had single virus as I run their IOBIT Malware fighter. Seems like a very solid performing suite of software.
Uninstaller is fine, never had a problem with it. I cannot vouch for the others.
As with all apps, when configured and used correctly, there doesn’t need to be any issue to “fix.” I’ve relied on these apps for many years, and once each has been set up right, I’ve used them without concern or issue. I will argue that to every expert who wishes to challenge me, as I’ve had years of experience with each app to back me up! all the while demanding my system perform at its top potential. My Dell G7 with these apps performs at warp speed!
From the IObit family, I’ve used and relied on Advanced System Care for over a decade to clean and de-clutter my system daily. The Uninstaller, Software Updater, and Driver Booster have been of excellent use to me. No, to all the Geeks who’ve told me otherwise, I know from experience that Windows cannot anywhere near automatically do what these apps can. I no longer have use for Smart Defrag as my system is now all solid state, but I used it extensively in the past with mechanical hard drives, and Windows Defrag can’t begin to do what it can! Protected Folder is also my right hand for keeping selected files reliably hidden, locked, and safe.
My only issue with any IObit apps is that the automatic update functions for a couple of them initially seemed to work like PuPs, as identified by ESET Premium Security. However, once full scans and analyses of those functions were complete, ESET let them work uninhibited. ESET has protected me tirelessly for well over two decades. It’s not an IObit or iTop product, but I recommend it without reservation!
From the iTop group of apps, my experiences have been just as positive. Their VPN is straightforward to use with Chrome and Brave and, if desired, offers many easily selected and understandable connecting configurations and options when deployed each time; otherwise, when turned on, it seamlessly engages in a user-pre-set format without effort. It also has a vast, worldwide server network. I’ve never felt as safe as I do now online with “iTop VPN.” I’ve also used iTop PDF and have been pleased with it. My only criticism for PDF is that it needs work on its Dark Mode, which is not dark now!
As with all apps, when configured and used correctly, there doesn’t need to be any issue to “fix.” I’ve relied on these apps for many years, and once each has been set up right, I’ve used them without concern or issue. I will argue that to every expert who wishes to challenge me, as I’ve had years of experience with each app to back me up while demanding my system perform at its top potential. My Dell G7 with these apps performs at warp speed!
How did you manage to delete this app? I had the same issue, but I can’t delete the app.
TRUE, I got a fucking PUA ( potentially unwanted app ) called adsunwan. This stupid driver booster thing wasn’t even installed by me, it was installed by pc store where I brought my pc ( bought it from them ) to troubleshoot cause no wifi/no audio after installing new gpu. Only recently found out about it and downloading malwarebyte to kill it.
What’s PuP?
I do the same and haven’t had an issue with this software yet but I’m more wondering about how much it’s spying on me.
You are an absolute legend and life saver 
It’s scamware, all at once. Advanced Systemcare Pro 17/18 shows you fake information like “there is XYZ GB to erase”. After you “erase” it, nothing happens. It even shows cache size information, which is generated every single start of Windows and when you open a video, a stream, a game or whatever. It erases private stuff you don’t even want to erase like private photos and crazy other things. It says it backups these things, but it erases it’s own backups (lol). It permanently shows you ads all few starts - even about the same software (lol) and then you think “Okay, when I have the Pro version, it shouldn’t show ads anymore, right?” Wrong! The Pro version even shows you more ads, cos then you get “fake discounts” (it’s just the 90% of time normal prize and they sell it for double the price from time to time). They even have their own Ad-Tab. Advanced Systemcare Pro tells you it uses an “AI” which is a lie, it’s just a default algorhythm like any other (free) program. Next thing you probably do is checking all the functions - each single function let you install another iObit software and then you get more ads like “Oh, you should try Driver Booster, but no no no, you maybe bought Advanced Systemcare Pro, which is an All-In-One, but we split our best software into own programs”.
Driver Booster is another scamhole, where you try it with the free version, then get double the ads you got before for all their scamshit. You open Driver Booster and it says “It didn’t found any free updates, but there are 2 updates behind a paywall!” Then you pay another 16-20$ for a Driver Booster Pro license and guess what happens, when you search for new drivers again? It’s showing free shit nobody needs as so-called “drivers” like OpenAL and Microsoft whatevertheheck, but in reality it’s just 2 free programs for 1 out of 50 Mio. games and apps, which would automatically install, if you had a game or program like that. They just take disk space, cos you’ll never need them. If that wasn’t enough, it downloads and installs drivers, that aren’t even made for your PC, so you can end up destroying your whole Windows partition by bricking the files and drivers that are needed for Windows Repair - if you don’t have a second PC, have fun getting a Windows installation. xD
Smart Defrag has it’s own ad-trojan-like program inside the folder: A file installs a task inside the windows system, that starts every single boot to show you ads. If you’d delete the file, it would reinstall itself to show you another cool ad again. Again, it doesn’t matter if Free or Pro. It states it’s “200% faster”, but it’s not even 1% faster at all, cos it’s the same electronic and mechanical engine as Windows defrag or any other defrag program and the engine can only read as fast as your drives.
iTop VPN ad will show something like "Everyone can see your IP, your IP is xxx.xxx.xxx.xx0, but this is a trick even random shitsites tell you to install their troyans and scamware: It’s a simple code (only local) that reads the IP from your network card and shows it inside a simple text everywhere you want. So no one can read your IP, but YOU. If others would trace your computer, they’d just see the IP adress of your ISPs server, not your own IP. It’s the same as if you’d use VPN, then the IP shows the VPN server, but if FBI or whoever wants your ass, cos you made something illegal, you’re fkd anyway, cos police/interpol will get your data from the ISP. Every VPN saves your log and your IP, cos they also make money with your informations (cookies: they sell your name, adress, phone number, credit card number etc.) - that’s why you get funky calls sometimes from different countries and stuff (ping calls) and people trying to hack your accounts.
Oh and don’t you dare giving them your credit card account, SEPA confirmation or whatever. There are hundreds of scam reports (for example: TrustPilot), where they just dumped money (full scam price, even if there’s discounts 90% of the time) from the users accounts even with ended subscription and also it’s a subscription without direct support. They shove you from call center to call center of different companies, then say “No, we’re just the seller, but you have to contact thisandthiscompany” - the other company will say “no, we’re just XYZ, you have to contact blablabla”. The Trinity of Scamholes: iObit, iTop and Paddle (Paddle.net has a with only a few words that directly says “I’m not sure why Paddle has charged me” - nuff said?
There’s a new version and you paid a 1-X-year license? You have to buy a new license for the new version! It also doesn’t say anything if a company is in China, Germany, Texas, England or wherever - humanity is monke and monke are monke everywhere. You getting scammed in North America, Europe, West Asia or wherever - the chance is even higher in North America, Europe and West Asia, cos our whole societies are build around that. Don’t trust a single seller, not even if you think you know them!
Ever heard of Microsoft, Lamborghini or another big company that would spam you over and over for their new products? No. Cos no one needs aggressive ads, if they’re not scammers. Lamborghini just dumps a car somewhere where people are and goes away for a few days - 50 days later 10 sold cars. People want quality, not quantity.
I used the default Windows uninstaller.
i booted into safe mode or whatever its called and used revo uninstaller.
Eu usei o proprio iObit pra desinstalar os apps que ele instalou ksksksksksksks
PuP means “Potentially unwanted Program”
IOBit software is ineffective at best, and an outright malicious scam at worst
They’ve stolen Malwarebytes intellectual property, their software (such as driver booster) invents fake errors to get you to buy it, and even occasionally installs or overwrites working drivers then asks you to pay to fix them (which can cause issues with things like printers).
An example here: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/369myy/iobit_it_really_is_a_scam_right/
and Here from Malwarebytes staff: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/29681-iobit-steals-malwarebytes-intellectual-property/