New notification. What is it?

I did not have Live Update or IOBIT until I installed Live Update which automatically installed IOBIT and three other tag-along programs ... but did not resolve the error notification pop ups. So, I deleted all of them. Now, I have none of them and their left over anything. But I still have the pop up on Start or Restart which I just unpop. And I think the PC is performing normally. When I finally get really fed up with deleting the pop up, I will probably end up resetting. Which is better? Cloud or Local?

Hearsepilot said:

When you say 'deleted', i hope you mean uninstall?

Uninstall installed items and delete items not installed ... they are just there. Like shortcut icons on screen. Sometimes menu options list both(delete and uninstall), sometimes, only one of them, in which case it is either delete or uninstall, whichever is listed..

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Callender said:

@coolnewyorker

Is there some reason why you won't use Autoruns?

Download Autoruns

I have not studied it yet. I am careful with free downloads ... too many hidden tag-along programs. Is it proven safe?

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Callender said:

@coolnewyorker

Is there some reason why you won't use Autoruns?

Download Autoruns

I tried but it was rated unsafe?

Ok, I did autorun and did not see anything I recognize or understand except for iobit that is listed as not found. Nothing about liveupdate. Interestingly, there are many entries on one drive which I thought is not working.

Under search entry: No liveupdate. Under services: also no liveupdate. Autoruns seem to validate the absence of liveupdate in my system. Could it be malwares? (I found two Trojans, which I have removed). I ran offline malware scan, MRT full scan twice, to no avail.
Last question: which reset is better? Cloud or local?

Start Autoruns, right-click the "IObit" entry, select "Copy", paste its contents into Notepad and see if it contains a reference to "Liveupdate.exe".

Ben