Man that program has gone down the fucking drain. First bundling in bloatware, now this?
What's a good alternative?
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Bleachbit or Glary Utilities
I replaced it with BleachBit after their auto-updater led to a situation where everyone was advised to wipe Windows.
Goddamn it gets worse. As soon as I get home from work I'll give a BleachBit a go. Thanks all!
Ohhh thank you for suggesting these, I had been considering swapping for CCleaner for weeks now but didn't know of a good alternative.
Glary Utilities has been my go to for years. First time I've ever seen anyone else mention it!
What’s a good alternative?
I haven't used any such tool for almost a decade probably and I don't think there's a need to nowadays. Occasionally I run the Windows Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of temp files and Windows Update installation files and that's about it. Cleaning the registry is bullshit anyway that does more harm than good (doesn't speed up anything certainly).
Bleachbit is the open-source community maintained successor
nuke and pave is the only real alternative. I do it every 3-4 months and it really only takes me a couple of hours to be back in business with all my apps and settings.
Thankfully I ditched this long time ago
Yeah ccleaner looks a little sketch. I was told to use it but bleachbit is open source and better.
It used to be decent but that was a decade or more ago. Although the registry cleaning main functionality is typically pointless like every other registry "cleaner" out there.
Damn CCleaner is not malware itself?
In fairness to CCleaner, there's lots of other organizations that were victims of MoveIt's breach.
"mass exploitation of a vulnerability in the widely-used file transfer software MOVEit has allowed cybercriminals to steal data from a dizzying array of businesses and governments..." - Wired Article on the MoveIt breaches
Trusting MoveIt was regrettable, but lots of folks made the same mistake.
I can understand the use of the moveit platform. I can't understand why it took 7 months to tell anyone.
The maker of the popular optimization app CCleaner has confirmed hackers stole a trove of personal information about its paid customers following a data breach in May.
In May?? And they say so now?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The maker of the popular optimization app CCleaner has confirmed hackers stole a trove of personal information about its paid customers following a data breach in May.
In an email sent to customers, Gen Digital, the multinational software company that owns CCleaner, Avast, NortonLifeLock and Avira brands, said that the hackers exploited a vulnerability in the widely used MOVEit file transfer tool, which is used by thousands of organizations, including CCleaner, to move large sets of sensitive data over the internet.
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The mass-hacking of MOVEit file transfer tools began in May, and quickly became the biggest hack of the year (so far) by the number of victims alone.
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Researchers tracking the mass-hacks say more than 2,500 organizations have confirmed MOVEit-related data breaches since May, amounting to at least 66 million individuals — though, the true number of affected people is likely far higher.
Clop has not yet listed CCleaner on its dark web leak site, which ransomware gangs use to extort companies by publishing stolen files if the hackers’ ransom is not paid.
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A spokesperson for Gen Digital said at the time that the incident was limited to the personal information of its employees and contractors, and that “no customer or partner data has been exposed.”
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The original article contains 398 words, the summary contains 222 words. Saved 44%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
They fucking bought avira too? What a shame. I remember back 12 years ago avast, avira, and ccleaner used to be good, then they all sold out to this shitty company
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Is anyone still using CCleaner? I gave up on it years ago when it turned into bloated junk.
I just run a batch script to clean temp files and browser cache.