Recently Aol has been sending those pop -ups to order AOL PC Checkup Premium,I was ignoring it at first but lately my computer has been so slow:The offfer was Free Trial for 30 days and 4.99 a month after the Free trial,I figured only 4.99 a month,and it would check up and fix any problems,I gave it a shot,I followed all the instructions each time a file was supposedly corrected I received a message corrected,the final message was close all Software and the system will reboot.
Well Guess what????Once the system rebooted and the computer started up again,I had this weird screen,it was all blurry and my emails were all jumbled together,all my programs were shutting down,Internet Explorer was flashing on and off!!! It was like a bad dream!!!!
I called AOL technical support,naturally it was automated,I requested to speak with a live rep,the rep at Aol tech support was baffled,she put me on hold and asked me to shut down and restart I did the problem only got worse!!
I was referred to software Technical support at 866-485-9225 , the first time I called I explained the problem and I was cut off, I called back and expalined a second time was cut off again! I was ready to SCREAM . The third time I was on hold listening to announcements and after 15 minutes a rep answered. I spoke to Travis ,I expalined the problem,he said he never heard of this,he asked me to go on Internet Explorer,I tried but it kept on flashing ,I tried to sign on,it was just frozen.
Travis said he would have to check further with his supervisor,I was on hold for another 10 minutes,Travis asked me to turn computer off ,try and reboot,the same jumled screen.Travis apologized and said it appeared Aol may have to reimburse me for all my software and it looked like there was not much that could be done!???
I told him that my computer was fine before there Pc Checkup and I was not going to just accept this,Travis said we could try one last thing ,he walked me thru a system restore,which was about 4 steps and after about 15 minutes my software and screen came back to normal.
Travis advised I should call and cancel that Aol Pc checkup and advise what happened,he said this was not suppose to happen! Do not order this,I do not know if this is done intentionally or what,but what if Technical Support could not help???
This is totally unacceptable,Don't they test their programs before they sell them?Thank you Travis,but Aol your PC Checkup premium REALLY SUCKS!!!
Thanks rip-off report,I hope everyone is reading this don't order this pc checkup avoid problems !!!!!!