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  1. What is the purpose of giving us the option to disable automatic updates at installation.... if you nevertheless inserted CCleaner exes into the Windows Task Scheduler itself to permanently run !

    We are not complaining that you did so - but that you did not give us the *option* - just the option - to UNCHECK this at installation time and opt out of it.

     

    We have to come here, start threads, and only then be told that you did this and how you did it and how to disable it.

    An option, just an option at installation would keep *everyone* happy because they would have a *choice*.

     

     

    No matter what the intent, people use computers differently. We have computer illiterate cousins and friends on whose computers we disable ALL updates because the moment something out of the ordinary happens like Firewalls intercepting CCleaner trying to phone home (!)  guess who gets the call at 3am and has to drive 40 minutes to turn that off. It doesn't matter what the reason is, inserting yourself to run with Windows with no warning or OPT OUT option, is the exact _opposite_ of what the purpose of CCleaner is. Please make a CHECKABLE option to opt in or out of this intrusive behavior.

  2. As of the latest version 5.36 - even if you UNCHECK Auto Updating at installation - as soon as it is installed, CCUpdate.exe phones home and tries to phone home permanently after that.

    Why is any component, including CCUpdate.exe of CCleaner running at startup if Monitoring has been turned off?

     

    Is this a bug? Or is using Firewalls to hardblock CCleaner now the only way to intercept phone home / update checks?

     

     

  3. Well see that's why it's important to clarify that. CCleaner.exe is infected and Ccleaner64.exe is not.

     

    Why does 64-Bit version even install CCleaner.exe if it is not used at all on 64-Bit systems which use Ccleaner64.exe instead? If CCleaner.exe is never launched there there is no infection. But why is Ccleaner.exe even there on 64-Bit systems, what is its purpose, if it's never launched by the Desktop shortcut which clearly points to Ccleaner64.exe?

  4. Thank you. You know I don't know where you are getting that 64_bit system shortcuts are pointing to the non-64-bit exe, but can you investigate this and see if other people's shortcuts also point to 64-bit exe because if they do like on my system, you should probably put that front and center that 64-Bit system users have nothing to worry about.

     

     

    I am just a little concerned about the statement "ccleaner.exe which hands it off to ccleaner64" - can you please confirm that launching CCleaner64.exe does not *ever in any way* launch CCleaner.exe.

    In other words the infection on 64-Bit systems can only take place if a user actually manually browses to the installation folder and for some strange unknown reason manually activates CCleaner.exe instead of CCleaner64.exe?

  5. Usually the desktop shortcut points to ccleaner.exe which hands it off to ccleaner64. While we've not been informed whether the hand off happens before or after the malware loads, the staff (volunteer moderators) is speaking with Admins (Piriform employees like Tom (OP) in a separate place

     

    I clearly see my Desktop shortcut pointing to the 64-bit exe but rather than going into why my desktop shortcut is pointing to it, instead of as you say, the non-64 bit .exe -  would you please instead just

    take a look at these attached shortcut screenshots and confirm that there is a 100% certainty that running the shortcuts in the screenshots below and those shortcuts only, would *not* have activated the infection in any way?

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  6. Thank you. And now the most important clarification question: Even though both CCleaner64.exe and CCleaner.exe are installed on 64-Bt systems. if only the CCleaner desktop shortcut was used, which always points to CCleaner64.exe, then that would mean that CCleaner.exe was never run, therefore really the only systems affected are 32-Bit ONLY systems since it's highly unlikely that someone would go out of their way and actually manually run Ccleaner.exe instead of CCleaner64.exe on a 64-Bit system. Is that correct?

     

    Because then most of us on 64-Bit systems have nothing to worry about then, even if we installed the infected version, since the non-64 bit exe was never run. It was installed, but never run, unless we manually went into the folder to run it. And who would do that on a 64-Bit system, almost no one. Correct?

  7. 2TB drive, defragmentation level was at 37%. Free space was 308GB.

     

    It took almost exactly two days, 48 hours of non-stop defragmenting for Defraggler to complete the task. Its display is informative as far as how many files are left to defragment and current state of defragmentation but time left was inaccurate, and it reached 1 minute point left more than 24 hours before actually finishing.
     

    Why do programmers don't think it necessary to inform us using words like 'finished' or terms like 'completed successfully' when the program finishes the task. Most or all defrag programs do not inform you they are finished using words 'finished' or 'completed'.

     

    After half a day or a day or more of activity, I find this to be a fatal user interface flaw, leaving you confused if the task was completed or was somehow interrupted.

    It does appear that two days Defraggler took is way too long for a drive that has 308GB of free space...
    What is your opinion?

  8. Version 5 cements the new unwanted features as defaults:

     

    Version 5 registers itself to run at Windows start up. So a program many people use primarily to clean cache etc. on demand is inserting itself to run at startup BY DEFAULT.

    Version 5 informs you that it is now PERMANENTLY running by default -  MONITORING your computer...

     

     

    This is not what most users want. We don't want CCleaner running permanently, by default. It's so much easier to just install version 4.17 and never upgrade.
     

  9. There is an unanswered question: Does the program _still_ try to register itself to permanently run at Windows Startup on clean installs, like it tried to starting with version 4.18?

     

     

    I never understood why people don't simply unsubscribe to non-rule breaking threads that annoy them?

    Users don't care for monitoring being on by default at install and they want it to be opt-in. Many do not have an account here to express that opinion because they'll just bend and go through options on each and every machine they install CCleaner in the future. If the program still tries to insert itself at startup, that would clash with the very purpose of installing it and people would cancel and uninstall. So this is correct:

     

    Perhaps one of the things users don't care for is monitoring being on by default at install and they want it to be opt-in.

  10. Because there is nothing personal about this, I am inclined to agree that a lot has been done to make the program seem to work like it used to in version 4.17.
    I am curious if the program still tries to register itself to run at windows startup on clean installs? It tried to in 4.18 upgrade but not in 4.19.
     
     
    I think it's important to clarify what this is about. The program had options to disable monitoring in version 4.18. Those options did not work as we found out the hard way.
    So options are still there but and hopefully they now work, this should have been mentioned as fixed in release notes.

    At any rate, even if fixed:
    Who thinks that the majority (more than 50%) of users want CCleaner permanently running? I don't think we do, so it's just easier to be installing 4.17 where we don't have to bother with options on each computer we install this on.


    P.S. Firefox > Right click > Languages... really does activate spelling on this forum, thanks for the tip.

  11. I suppose the focus is less on inner workings, and more on motive of making Monitoring default. I mean, do the majority of people really want CCleaner running permanently? If not, than what is the motive in making it mandatory as default?

     

     

    I think that's the question here that was fueled by our inability to disable it initially and the confusion about reg hacks being required to disable it.... and people posting that the developers were not 100% clear on what exactly the monitoring does, what information does it collect, just lack of Release Notes fully detailing its function.

     

     

    If anyone installed the Windows 10 preview, does version 4.17 clean it as far as you can tell? If it does, then staying on version 4.17 for the next five years would be the answer to removing all this confusion.

  12. I admit that I have not searched if this has changed but I do remember reading multiple posts about how there were no clear Release Notes on the new Monitoring features (!)

    It was said that the developers "should" post clear description of just what it is that Monitoring does and how.... The notion that they released this entire new feature Which *registered itself* to run at Windows Startup (!) without explaining the very purpose of monitoring -- this was a big Red Flag.

     

     

    So let's start from the beginning:

     

    What exactly does Monitoring do and how does it do it?

    What information does it collect?

    What exactly, if anything, is being sent OUT of our computers to CCleaner servers...?

     

    Can developers assure us that nothing whatsoever is being sent out, other than the version number (for update checking purposes)?

     

    That would be a good start.

  13. Ccleaner is one of the most useful programs and one of the best in its class.

    Just released v4.18 introduces a very buggy mandatory Monitoring feature.

     

    It is ON by default, not as a feature which can be turned ON optionally. It is difficult to impossible to disable on some systems. Most annoyingly, it stays in the Task Bar even if you launch CCleaner with a shortcut which has an /AUTO string at the end, which should terminate the program after it executes its main cleaning function, but it doesn't - even after you adjust options...

     

    Version 4.19 finally fixes the problem of CCleaner staying in the Task Bar even if you launch CCleaner with a shortcut which has an /AUTO string at the end, which finally today terminates the program after it executes its main cleaning function.

     

    I didn't even want to look at the other Monitoring feature until the taskbar bug was fixed.

     

    So let me just say there is *a lot* of suspicion about CClenaer after version 4.18, a lot of false rumors and the developers should be aware about them.

     

    • What is the Monitoring feature? What does it do exactly?

     

    • Can it be totally and completely disabled?

     

    • Why was CCleaner registering itself to start at Windows Startup when its very purpose is to free system resources?

     

    • Are there any reports of CCleaner still executing these new features even after they are disabled, as was the case in version 4.18?

     

    • Does Ccleaner phone home any information whatsoever other than *only* phoning home to check for a new version? Why does it phone home when executing Setup.exe, is it only to check for a new version?

     

    • Is any registry hacking still necessary to disable these new Ccleaner features?

     

    • Off topic: Why does this forum disable Firefox native spell checking?

  14. Did you stop using Office when the ribbon was introduced?

    Did you miss the Start Button in Windows 8 and did something about it?

     

    Eventually all your beloved, familiar software will change and guess what, not everyone will be happy.

    Take a spoonful of cement and harden up.

    If you have a spleen to vent, tell the software supplier or better yet, your psychiatrist.

     

    I'll take this one.

     

    1. Yes!! Absolutely. There is NO difference between WIndows 7 and Windows 8 user interface thanks to Classic Shell freeware which simply gives us Metro as an option which activates as a Shift+Click on the Windows 8 Start Button, rather than having Metro jammed down our throats as default: Proof: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/750333-Downgrading-Samsung-Ativ-book-9-lite?p=7732667&viewfull=1#post7732667

     

    2. Yes! Both figured out how to install Office 2003 alongside Office 2013 and Installed an add-in custom Ribbon using freeware. Proof: http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/725542-How-to-install-both-MS-Office-2003-and-MS-Office-2013-on-the-same-system

     

    3. Version 4.18 needs to be pulled, no new releases should be released other than as Beta releases of course. At the very least change 4.18 name to 4.18 Beta 2, because that is exactly what it is.

                            

    Version 4.17 should be the last stable release with Auto-update off and no updating until confirmed stable new release has been released detailing what new features do.

     

    >> We do not know what monitoring does and why it is necessary? << We do not wish CCleaner to be starting up with Windows by default. We do not wish to have Ccleaner permanently running on our systems. The purpose of this program is to free up resources.

     

    This would be a different story if many of the features you want to introduce were not enabled by default and were there as an option only.

  15. Both versions get stuck in the Task Bar when /AUTO command is used to automatically start then clean then close CCleaner. This has not been fixed.

     

     

    The entire point of the program is supposed to be to free up resources. Now i's inserting itself into the Windows Start Up (!), it's setup to constantly be running by default (!) - this defeats the purpose of the program for most people.

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    You can now download v4.18.4844. This version allows for easier control of the new Active Monitoring feature.

     

    New version also buggy. Also stays in the Task Bar.

    Ccleaner is definitley also aggressively repeatedly trying to insert itself into WIndows Startup. Good thing thing there are intercept programs to prevent it from doing so.

     

    We now have multiple buggy releases so it's clear that staying with v4.17, disabling updates and not updating is the way to go.

  17. Not pulling version 4.18 is a the reason for this warning.

    This means future problems are likely to be treated the same, so why update, unless absolutely necessary for a specific reason?

     

    Up to know, updating was OK because the program was always stable. v4.18 problems were obvious and obvious quickly - this makes us question how much testing was done prior to taking this build out of Beta. Obviously not much. So no more updates for a while.

  18. Ccleaner is one of the most useful programs and one of the best in its class.

    Just released v4.18 introduces a very buggy mandatory Monitoring feature.

     

    It is ON by default, not as a feature which can be turned ON optionally. It is difficult to impossible to disable on some systems. Most annoyingly, it stays in the Task Bar even if you launch CCleaner with a shortcut which has an /AUTO string at the end, which should terminate the program after it executes its main cleaning function, but it doesn't - even after you adjust options... The fact that a buggy version has been out for a few days now without being pulled is a warning that it might be time to simply stop upgrading, unless you specifically need one of the other non-buggy new features, which most of us do not. There are now multiple lengthy threads on this problematic new feature with people option to pull back to v4.17 and stay there.

  19. First major mess up ever.

    This version needs to be pulled immediately and a new one released with a fix.

     

    How could this not be noticed by Beta testers, it's obvious on first use, the icon remains in Task Bar.

    In addition to the Task Bar Bug, any monitoring options should have be DISABLED by default.

    It's nice to have options and have it in the program but it shouldn't have been ON by deafult.

     

    This thread topic, however is the reason to issue a new version A.S.A.P.

  20. Thank you. As I understand it:

     

    After you

    Options > Advanced > CHECK: Save all settings to INI file

     

    The settings will be saved in file: C:\Program Files\CCleaner\ccleaner.ini

     

    Backup ccleaner.ini to a different folder then copy/paste it back, overwriting the existing ccleaner.ini file to restore the settings the program had at the time ccleaner.ini was created.

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