Throughout the article, he runs the scanner a couple of times on a couple of setups and discusses the issues it claims to have found and points out what it should have detected but failed to.įirst and foremost if software wishes to protect your PC from attack it should, at the very least, ensure that you are patched. Ed Bott over at ZDNet takes exception with the advertisement.Īt least it does not cripple your machine until you pay.Įd Bott complains about the advertisement, and Adobe’s distribution of it, on two main grounds: the scanner urges you to fix things that do not need to be fixed allegedly to alarm you and it fails to warn you about things that you should be alarmed about. Upon running the “Free PC Health Check” you are prompted to purchase the full product to fix the problems it finds. If you are not ever vigilant it is possible that your computer could be gifted a trial of McAfee antivirus or something.Īn advertisement for System Checkup by IOLO has recently been added to the site you are directed to after a manual update of Flash.
The scan also fails to alert for issues which actually are serious and commonplace.Īdobe has been known to be slightly haphazard with using their update application for advertising purposes. The ad urges you to purchase System Checkup by dramatizing mundane events on your PC to be remedied only by their paid product. A recent Adobe auto update included a poorly labeled advertisement for IOLO System Checkup.
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