Ccleaner browser11/9/2023 They turned a tool meant to scrub your computer clean of lurking malware into a serious threat to sensitive and personal information. Hackers took the legitimate program and inserted malicious code that was designed to steal data from users. However, in September 2017, CCleaner malware was discovered. In January 2017, CNET gave the program a "Very Good" rating. During the cleanup, malicious files buried in the system are also deleted. The software gets rid of temporary files that eat up disk space and invalid Windows registry keys. I can however completely understand how this would be unwanted in many situations, resulting in the end user having to reconfigure file associations in Windows according to their preferences, and I'll send this feedback to our development team.įurthermore, we do plan to modify the behavior of the installer so that it will no longer change the file association for PDF files, and it's very possible that we'll continue to make additional modifications like this as well, especially as we continue to receive feedback like this.CCleaner is a utility program designed to delete unwanted files from a computer. Unfortunately it is true that at this current time, installing CCleaner Free with the option to "Make CCleaner Browser my default browser" will change various file associations in Windows so that by default, various different types of files will be opened via the default CCleaner Browser, rather than the files opening in the programs they did previously. I emailed Piriform about the (Top Post) & got a reply today (almost a month later) here's there reply below:įirst of all, I sincerely apologize for the delayed response as we've recently received a much higher than normal volume of support requests. The first in the list is their 'Emergency Updater' with which they can change things without asking you first, that's a security hole and has to go.Ĭ:\Windows\System32\Tasks\CCleaner Update (And I have them as an 'Include' in CCleaner, so it deletes them itself when first run following an install): I also delete the following after any actual install that I do. That gives you the latest version on your PC without running any installer. In fact I will usually download the 'Portable' zip file, copy the new CCleaner.exe/CCleaner64.exe from within it, and overwrite the existing/installed CCleaner.exe/CCleaner64.exe. Instead we go to the CCleaner 'Builds' page and download either the 'Slim' installer which does not contain any bundled offers, or the 'Portable' which does not need to be installed. Most CCleaner 'regulars' do not use the 'Standard installer', or update from within the programme itself. TBH most browsers do this when you first install them, CCleaners browser is not unique in that respect. This issue with the new CC browser 'hijacking' the file associations is just the latest consequence if you inadvertently download/install the browser. It can be a pain to remove these downloaded/installed offers if you aren't paying attention and leave the box(es) ticked when updating. We know that they are working on a new installer, but they haven't confirmed yet if that will still include pre-ticking as well. That made for an interesting thread on the forum, especially when it happened again but I caught it before it actually installed). (I once got an install of Avast that wasn't offered so there wasn't even a box to untick. We have been nagging them for years (well before Avast acquired them) about the pre-ticked offer boxes.Īnd there have in the past been other problems with bundleware being installed without the option even being shown. (Although I rarely use CCleaner these days, I wrote my own cleaner). Endpoint Detection & Response for Servers
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