Avast acquired Piriform - and soon after, the installation app was injected with the Floxif Trojan. For years it was on most must-have-utilities lists.īut in 2017, things went seriously wrong. First launched in 2004, it was a wildly popular system cleaner, trusted by millions of PC users as safe, effective, and free. The problems were/are real and surfaced after Avast bought Piriformįrom Woody’s newsletter : Freeware Spotlight - ccPortableĪ classic example is Piriform’s CCleaner. If we decide to continue using CCleaner should we use an older version – we have installation files going back to at least 2006? Has anyone taken a deep dive into HP’s Support Assistant to see if it is any good?Īre the problems with CCleaner real or is it safe to continue using the application? However, if we run CCleaner’s Custom Cleaner immediately after running HP’s Optimize to empty recycle bin and clean web-browsers history, cookies and cache – CCleaner finds additional 10’s of MBs of bits to remove.

Clean Web-browsers history, cookies and cache.Under the Optimize your performance option the app can:

Support Assistant is a set of apps that can:

Our Windows 10 HP computers have an application called HP Support Assistant. Our primary purpose for running CCleaner is to remove any footprints from our drives that can reveal our computer related activity. We have been using CCleaner’s Custom Cleaner to remove detritus from our drives for more than six years without incident but are concerned about privacy. The AskWoody blog contains numerous criticisms of CCleaner including a recent series of negative comments related to it wiping Firefox extension settings.

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