On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:48:23 -0400, in news
Mayayana wrote:
I keep a script on my Desktop to clean TEMP.
There's never any reason to "clean" the Registry.
That's a scam that can occasionally cause
problems.
I don't know if cleaning the registry is a scam, and, I've never seen a
problem that I could attribute to the cleaning of the registry.
But I have seen *plenty* of left-over registry entries after uninstalling a
program which are cleaned by Ccleaner.
Do those leftover registry entries cause harm.
I can't say.
| I use it mostly as my front end uninstaller.
| It removes a lot of the BHOs and other hijacked autostarters.
|
It sounds like you install a lot of dubious stuff.
I'm way better than most people so I doubt I install "dubious" stuff.
You forget I know as much as you do about many things.
Nonetheless, I do use exclusively freeware - but only the best.
Ccleaner has always been in the list of the best, at least until Avast took
them over.
A lot of BHOs? You shouldn't be getting any BHOs.
I don't understand what hijacked autostarter means.
I probably led you astray with the letters BHO which, I agree, are specific
to browsers where anyone who gets a BHO is an idiot - so I see where you
got the idea that I install dubious software.
I used the wrong term.
There is in CCleaner a menu to check
CCleaner: Tools Startup {Windows,Scheduled Tasks,Context Menu}
I use Ccleaner to disable all of those.
If you have things setting themselves to run at
startup you should be able to fix that with Autoruns,
which can also be used to deactivate BHOs, browser
extensions, etc.
There are many programs which, when you install them, try to run all the
time.
| CCleaner was never meant to be a malware cleaner.
|
| But what freeware scanner do you recommend that would/should/did catch
this
| CCleaner malware infestation?
I don't use those either, so I don't know.
I would *not* recommend Malwarebytes
without a big grain of salt. I guess if I were
in that boat I'd look up online to find the
specifics of the infestation.
The US gov just deprecated Kapersky by the way.
I'm not sure what the threat is though.
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