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Brainfodder

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2. Concerned windows users do this:
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 02:55 PM
Jun 2019

Look for: (in bold)

The flaw lies in PC-Doctor Toolbox, systems analysis software which is rebadged and pre-installed on PCs made by some of the world’s biggest computer retailers, including Dell, its Alienware gaming brand, Staples and Corsair. Dell alone shipped almost 60M PCs last year and the company states PC-Doctor Toolbox (which it rebrands as part of ‘SupportAssist’) was pre-installed on “most” of them.

Using the search box within Windows 10, if you have it installed, should probably find it.

I build my own system, so I don't have pre-installed squatters when I start a new system except the ones already inside Windows 10.

How to be rid of it, there are likely already plenty of web sites with details, go look for it?

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