Rob R

I had a similar experience when I went to download CCleaner. It appears that there is some sneaky stuff on the page and you end up on a page that speaks to an entirely different product ("RegCure") and vendor (PC-Tools): http://pccleaner-download.com/?gclid=CNbqz...CFQZfswodv178qg This happened in Firefox and I believe it was because I missed Firefoxe's "Allow this redirect" prompt and, instead, clicked on a great big, prominent "Download Now" button that took me to the competing product. Pretty sleazy piece of work, that.

Lately, my PC has been taking longer and longer to boot/startup. Plus, I occasionally run into long pauses in the middle of operations. CCleaner was recommended as part of a solution to these problems. I have already gotten a clean bill of health from Mbam, Spybot Search and Destroy, Windows Malicious software removal utility, and my Trend Micro products. Yesterday (14 Mar 09) I downloaded, updated, and ran CCleaner. After cleaning up the temp files, I ran the Registry tool. It identified 1,988 registry issues over a number of categories. I selected to fix all issues (making sure t