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Old September 21st 18, 09:27 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default CCleaner Is Silently Updating Users Who Turned Off Automatic Updates

On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:57:26 -0400, Big Al wrote:

What version are you?


5.46 portable. I used Privatefirewall to block it though.

Anyway, funny thing just happened when I turned on my PC. CCleaner
apparently crashed and then Windows warned me my antivirus wasn't
active. No panic, it happens sometimes.I use Avast Free Antivirus, so I
clicked on the icon and got an option to restart the service. Didn't get
to activate it until I noticed the (broken) icon of CCleaner in systray.
I hovered over it with my mouse pointer, it disappeared and suddenly I
was able to restart Avast... And yet, somehow I don't feel that safe
anymore... :-o

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