Never buy software that claims to fix your computer from an Infomercial!

Maybe you've seen the ads on the Internet or on TV in the wee hours of the morning. They make lofty promises: get rid of blue screens and error messages! Increase your speed! Clean up your system! But even when these PC cleanup apps aren't just malware in disguise, the things they're doing for your PC are often dubious. Many either replicate tasks that can be handled by built-in utilities or do things that could cause more problems than they solve.

To highlight just why you and your loved ones should never let these applications anywhere near your PC, we picked one that we'd recently seen ads for: MyCleanPC. It's the archetypal Windows cleanup app—and you probably shouldn't install it.  Read more here or click on the article link to the left under "What's New"

Thanks to Ars Technica for the information!