It all came to a head in September 2011 when a plaintiff called Mary Webb (and plenty of her supporters) took Uniblue to court in the States citing that RegistryBooster did not function as advertised. Indeed, someone proved you could install a fresh copy of Windows, with no third-party software, install RegistryBooster and it would still claim your system had errors. An individual cottoned on to the fact that this was bogus software as a brand new out-of-the-box PC would be deemed to have "errors that need fixing" even after the first boot. Indeed, someone who bought RegistryBooster fixed the errors, re-ran the software, to find it reported they had errors again. ![]() Users started to realize that they were being warned that their system always had errors. That’s before it all went horribly wrong. The owners spent less time talking about their software and seemed to keen to boast how much they spent on advertising on this well-known US technology website we mentioned above. I had the "pleasure" of visiting Uniblue in January 2011 at its office in Malta and met with one of their Swedish owners in their rather plush Scandinavian-influenced office. They also bought specific adverts that sat right next to a download button stating "STOP! Your system has errors!" or "FREE SCAN!" or similar warnings that encouraged a user to download RegistryBooster from a conveniently placed advert, so the individual thought it was the technology website warning them that their system was faulty - clever marketing from Uniblue. Without pointing the finger ourselves, Uniblue teamed up with a massive US-based downloads website in 2009 and ran various offers and promotions to encourage their users to download RegistryBooster. It was RegistryBooster that was the problem. Most of the other tools were legitimate software, used by thousands of people without too many issues. Uniblue produced other software such as DriverScanner, PowerSuite and SpeedUpMyPC which was a general system toolkit. To resolve the issues, you had to purchase RegistryBooster. Supplied as a free tool, RegisterBooster would bully or scare the user into thinking their system had some serious issues that needed resolving. Uniblue was well-known for system maintenance tools such as RegistryBooster which would scan your system, check for unnecessary entries in your Registry and claim there were issues that needed fixing.
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