Ccleaner users

[GrumpyGregry]

I've always held Ccleaner in the same regard as I do other programs that claim to speed up your PC by deleting or optimising your registry.

Snake oil.

Then you'd be very much mistaken.

 

[Drago]

I've always held Ccleaner in the same regard as I do other programs that claim to speed up your PC by deleting or optimising your registry.

Snake oil.

Its the one the Dibble sweat over the most. We were warned about it on the ecrime course as the favoured app of people who look at things they shouldn't, such is its effectiveness in properly deleting deleted files.

 

[Tin Pot]

Its the one the Dibble sweat over the most. We were warned about it on the ecrime course as the favoured app of people who look at things they shouldn't, such is its effectiveness in properly deleting deleted files.

I don't want to worry all you paedophiles, junkies and wannabe revolutionaries out there, but we'll get the evidence if we really want it.

Drago's back catalogue of fake Vordermann porn just isn't worth the time.

 

[Tin Pot]

I've always held Ccleaner in the same regard as I do other programs that claim to speed up your PC by deleting or optimising your registry.

Snake oil.

Hear hear.

The best way to speed up a PC is to throw it off a cliff.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

There's only two reasons - one the signature in Defender is shoot, two its infected.

Talos are one group that found it, there's more here:
http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html?m=1

Well Malwarebytes found nothing,so I'm going with your first theory.

 

[slowmotion]

Nobody has put the bite on me so far....

 

[Drago]

Drago's back catalogue of fake Vordermann porn just isn't worth the time.

Its priceless to me!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Well Malwarebytes found nothing,so I'm going with your first theory.

Interesting. Malwarebytes has found it on multiple systems today 32- & 64-bit.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Hear hear.

The best way to speed up a PC is to throw it off a cliff.

... or reinstall the OS: that works every time (although it's a bit Draconian).

 

[ColinJ]

I've always held Ccleaner in the same regard as I do other programs that claim to speed up your PC by deleting or optimising your registry.

Snake oil.

I found over 4,000 entries in the registry for one part of one program. It was taking 30-45 seconds to react to certain button clicks. I manually cleaned out the surplus registry entries and it was then so quick that I couldn't time it!

I have now automated the procedure but if CCleaner had done something similar then it would have speeded up that program enormously.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Interesting. Malwarebytes has found it on multiple systems today 32- & 64-bit.

I just ran Malwarebytes and it found the ccleaner bug in the set up files. I haven run ccleaner again so I don't know whether that would have removed it. Probs 64-bit, if it makes any difference.

 

[Salar]

I'm still on an old version 3.23. so I should be ok.