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dvanced SystemCare was formerly known as formerly Advanced WindowsCare Personal. It provides set of system utilities for Windows, such as Spyware Scan and Removal, Registry Fix, StartUp Manager, Junk Files Clean and Privacy Sweep.
The program offer diagnostics too with a system log (similar to HijackThis log), defrag, backup, immunization from bad ActiveX components and tracking cookies.
The installer of Advanced SystemCare is bundled with Yahoo! Toolbar 
. We often see programs that are bundled with unwanted components - and, when they are bundled with security programs - this really saddens most members of the security community.
Installing Advanced SystemCare is quite fast. So fast, in fact, that the program made me scratch my head because it was doing two tasks without my consent after installation.
First, it started to check for updates and displayed that there are program updates. As you see in the image at the left, there are 3 available updates. I allow the download of the program updates and it asked to reboot the computer to finish updating. I wanted to reboot already but the program prompted me to create a restore point because it detected that it was my first use of Advanced SystemCare . Since I do not plan to quickly scan the test system using the program and knowing there are program updates that is being installed, I clicked “no” for the creation of restore point. To my surprised the program started scanning the system even though I did not ask it to! And it’s quite odd that the program will auto-scan the system while it is suggesting rebooting the computer after the update.
Strange also that the Iobit News and Latest News (see the both screenshot) are not news at all but links to popular or recent keywords search result in Yahoo! This is maybe happening because their installer is bundled with Yahoo! Toolbar.