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ADKM

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#177346 30-Jul-2015 17:47

Anyone had any experience dealing with this website? They seem legit but aren't upfront about cost.
Their refund policy mentions something about a subscription... is it one of these help themselves to your cc when they feel like it?
I did download their stuff but found it would start scanning by itself and was hard to stop.
Uninstall seems to be clean enough.

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#1355425 30-Jul-2015 17:54

https://www.google.co.nz/#q=driverassist

andrewNZ

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#1355430 30-Jul-2015 17:59

I wouldn't touch it, or any other similar software.

If your computer is working fine, it doesn't need updated drivers. Updating drivers can cause problems as well as fix them. There is no way I'd let a piece of software update drivers for me.

If you do need drivers for something, check (in this order)
- The PC/component manufactures website.
- The Chipset manufacturers website.
- driverpacks.net

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#1355432 30-Jul-2015 18:07

andrewNZ: I wouldn't touch it, or any other similar software. ...

I am very, very, wary of all driver updating software BUT ... I recently discovered Driver Booster 2.4 - the free version works well, but slowly, and the paid-for version is lightning fast.
Seems legit.
I haven't discovered any fishhooks yet

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ADKM

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#1355529 30-Jul-2015 20:21

Thanks everyone... interesting reading. Hopefully it's gone and I'll steer clear of such things!
(Some of the supposed removal tools look pretty dodgy too!)

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#1359425 5-Aug-2015 14:26

Tools like that make finding real drivers a right PITA.

I think there must be some toolkit with the data to make the scammy websites for those products because there are dozerns of them whenever you search for anythings drivers.

Really annoying to try to find a clean set of reference drivers from the chipset vendors for things like ebay video capture devices etc.

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#1359865 6-Aug-2015 10:36

The only driver installer I trust is some russian software called DRP Driverpack solution
http://drp.su/

They have a free downloadable DVD which you can run on a computer, and it will install all the drivers required for about 95% of motherboards and laptops. Its brilliant.

Great for IT workshops

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#1359871 6-Aug-2015 10:44

raytaylor: The only driver installer I trust is some russian software called DRP Driverpack solution
http://drp.su/

They have a free downloadable DVD which you can run on a computer, and it will install all the drivers required for about 95% of motherboards and laptops. Its brilliant.

Great for IT workshops

Thanks for that
Our Infrastructure Team decided that using windows update for drivers was a no go zone, so every time I rebuild one of the older machines I run into issues with drivers.

Now to figure out how to download this torrent at work :-)