DriverCure 1.1

Paretologic did get me out of a big jam when I had a serious problem with bad drivers. It was worth the money to me in time and agravation saved after many hours of goofing around and getting nowhere.
On the other hand, I do agree with the other review comments about scare tactics and not knowing exactly what your'e getting for the price. I thought I was purchasing 2 licences when in fact it was only one for Driver Cure. The other, unbeknown to me, was for Privacy Controls, which I did not need or want. So what I thought would be a total of $29.97 turned out to be $39.94, and it was for one license of each.

I thought I needed an updated driver and in my driver search found Paretologic, and that it had 5 cows by Tucows. They offered a package of 4 programs, and the only one I needed was the driver updating one. I paid $50 for all, and installed just the driver cure and the register cure. It turned out when it scanned my drive the driver I thought I needed was up to date. I contacted Paretologic as I did not need their software other than that, and they credited my purchase. Then the kicker! After I uninstalled the two programs, I no longer had drivers for either of my CD/DVD drives, and now no way to load in my existing software on a DVD that came with one drive and I can't find the driver for the one that came in my computer when I purchased it!

Now what do I do! I could cry!

It doesn't offer it for free until you try to uninstall it. This free offer is dependant on one signing up for some solicitation. I will not go forth and see if they actually do give it to you for free but yes, Foul play for such a high rating

These people are either purposely unethical, or don't know how to write a PayPal script. Either way, I will avoid them like the plague in the future, and I'm very disappointed in tucows for giving them such a high rating.

Pareto's purchasing scripts were BAD. I got to a PayPal page that said "Continue" which was to let me confirm payment, but instead the script immediately took my money.

At this point, I don't care how good the software might be, I feel like I've been taken for a ride.

Faced with a download file I could not open, I was presented with the possibility that Pareto Logic and DriverCure might help. I was not clear why it might solve that particular problem but as my PC had been out of use for a long time until now & was not functioning well, the product looked interesting.
The free scan was immediately followed by pressure to buy the software. My credit card details were included in what was to be entered before there was any mention of price.
I searched Pareto Logic's website for prices without finding any, nor could I find any Email address likely to reply to a complaint and enquiry on that aspect.

While I do not have enough knowledge & experience to judge the accuracy or usefulness of the scan itself, I was already antagonised by the "free scan" but then buy without mention of price of price. That plus the "you need to register otherwise...." approach mentioned by anithaloh in his comment (para 3) has reinforced my unwillingness to consider dealing with Pareto Logic.

I was glad that I came to Tucows website to see both price and anithaloh's adverse but most helpful comment. I share his general dislike of vendors who behave in this way, and am old enough to be the more shocked to see this one seems to be based in Canada!

I tried DriverCure because I noticed that some people are getting excited about it. After using it, I frankly don't understand the excitement at all, here is why:

1. It gives a lot of false warnings and scare tactics... lying too: My report said I had "8 critical driver and software outdated". Well, I counted them and.... there were 5. How did they get to 8? Listing 1 update as "4". I hate it when companies try to scare you by lying!
2. Didn't find as many drivers as its competitors. I compared it to RadarSync because that program is free and has worked well for me, and DriverCure found fewer drivers, and those that it did find were not exactly crucial for PC (e.g. "ISAPNP Read data Port").
3. I didn't appreciate that "you need to register otherwise...." approach. I don't trust this company (or any of them) with my email address and personal details (so I gave a fake one. DriverMax is a spammer, for example, read reviews at the 'Net).
4. Another one of their tactics that slightly distorts the truth -- they display a list of about 40 items that there's not an update available for them. I don't get it? Am I supposed to be impressed that you've scanned the entire contents of my computer? Doesn't exactly engender trust....
5. I noticed some items were marked incorrectly. 1 item was on my "let's scare you because it's out of date" list and on my "you're okay, it's updated" list. Another item on the "ok" list actually showed that my version is out of date, but they got their numbering wrong or something and put it on the wrong list. So, I think they have to work on their algorithms....
6. They admit they don't have latest version of some items (such as for my Safari's browser for Windows)
7. Noticed that it doesn't have 64 bit support for Windows XP. Not crucial for everyone, but what's the deal?

Summary: I don't like vendors that try to scare me, take my personal info, and distort the facts to scare me. That, plus some missing features and updates that were marked wrong, made me really want to avoid this product. Plus, it costs$30 bucks, which is ridiculous....