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The site, which is still up as of this writing, is well made and looks like any other legitimate site promoting a program that they created.

Overall, its promoted like all the other system optimization tools that we see regularly being offered.

It cleans your browsing history and temporary internet files, allowing you to be a more confident Internet user and less susceptible to identity theft.

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As its last communication before it removes itself, it will upload a file called Encrypted.zip that contains the harvested data from a victims machine.

Just yesterday, another researcher named JamesWT discovered it again and even a month later, few antivirus vendors were detecting it as malicious.

Even then, it is always suggested that you upload the program to a site like VirusTotal to confirm if its safe to run.

In situations like this, you will need to weigh all the factors such as site trustworthiness, reviews, and word of mouth to decide if you should run the program.

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