Cheemag

That is so. ??? I did think of it while I was rebooting, but never got round to it as CCleaner started working again ... Regards, :: Cheemag ::

Done that in my last test. It still locked up with Bitdefender I.S. 2013 switched out. Anyway - I may have found the problem, all goes well if I revert to normal delete without the overwrite. Which must mean that, effectively, that facility cannot be used with CCleaner. I'll leave CCleaner on the system for now, Perhaps you could address this problem or at least test for it as a bug (?) Regards, :: Cheemag ::

I reinstalled CCleaner. Put some smallish files in the Recycle. It deleted them without problems. I put a largish .exe file (15GB) in the Recycle. Locks up. Reboot. Put a directory and a few more small files in the Recycle. CCleaner locks up on the first file in the bin, the directory. Reboot. Put the large exec back in. Disable Local Area Connection. Switch off all the security. Run CCleaner - locks up. I must make the point that, if I delete the file it locks up on (at the command promt), after the reboot, as far as CCleaner is concerned that file is still there in the same directory - be it the Recycle Bin or elsewhere - when I run CCleaner again, although it's been deleted completely from the system. This is totally weird behaviour ! Regards, :: Cheemag. ::

Not entirely true to say it won't delete large files. I tried again today with non-exe and isos in the Recycle Bin. it deleted them all without problems. I'm running XP-Pro x86 SP-3 on the machine in question, not Windows-7 64-bit. I noticed that, in Settings\Advanced (Windows\Temp & Recycle Bin) was set to delete only files older than 24 hours. But what is 'older than 24 hours'? From deletion date or creation date? Despite that setting it went ahead today with today's test deletions, although the files themselves would have been days or months old. Nonetheless, even if set not to delete files <24hrs old, it should not have choked on a large new file, it would have skipped it. I'll continue to test. Regards, Cheemag

Testing today. What it amounts to is: CCleaner cannot delete large files, My test file was VipreRescue.exe 121,147,792 bytes in the Recycle Bin. Whenever CCleaner was run it choked on this file at the scan stage, While it was stalled there, nothing else could be done on the machine, it could not be halted in Task Manager/System Explorer and a reboot was inevitable. BleachBit had no problem with that file or any other. Regrettably I've had to abandon CCleaner. Regards, :: Cheemag ::

There are no files to upload - they've all been deleted. I'll see what BleachBit makes of it.

Doesn't find anything to uninstall - obviously, I've never had Norton.

I've never ever had Symantec malware software! Very odd! I've rescanned three times with three malware tools. The machine is clean. I notice someone in one of the Bugs threads has had this problem which was traced to Windows Search. If I knew how to disable/delete Windows Search I'd try that to see whether it makes a difference. None of which explains the Symantec and Ask type..dlls, as I've never had either Ask or anything Symantec on this machine I can only conclude that, as with my Windows-7 machine, there is a conflict between CCleaner and one of the security programmes. CC worked properly 5 minutes ago after I'd used the Windows disc cleaning tool.

The saga continues. Reboot. I delete SCC[1].dll and the SCC log file. Run CCleaner again. Stops at 31% at SCC[1].dll, which no longer exists. Now while CC hesitates, nothing else can be done on the machine. Reboot. Check that the SCC files are really gone. Locks up on SCC[1].dll. I'm now malware rescanning.

CC is still behaving badly. Today in [Analyse] it stopped at 0% on a file SCC[1].dll which is apparently a Semantic file. It was found in IE's Temp Internet Files folder. I don't use IE ! [Cancel] locked up CCleaner. Used System Explorer to kill CC's process, which it did, but this locked the machine requiring a reboot. Tried again after reboot. [Analyse] went OK, but [Run Cleaner] locked on SCC[1].dll. Tried to close CC with [X] this time - locked the machine - reboot. Could this file be active and locked by Windows? In which case, what's it doing in a Temp folder? I haven't tried to delete it yet. It was last modified at 20:20 yesterday. There is one other SCC file on the system, SCCLog.txt in my Local Settings/Temp folder which was last modified at the same time and date. Examination shows a Symantic file with the clue "http://liveupdate.symantecliveupdate.com/upgrade/NSS/SymCCIS/Production/SCC/w3i/ENG.SCC.config.txt and mentions Norton. I don't think I have any Symantec stuff on this machine. Any more thoughts?

I'll look for a reliable Web scanner for a third opinion. I also have Bitdefender Internet Security 2013 running and it too found nothing. I've just been offered CC 3.24.1850 which I downloaded, installed and ran. It took 35 seconds with a one-pass overwrite to clear the Firefox temporary files. That excessive after light browsing ? I've noticed that, in that condition, hitting [Cancel] locks the machine, or did yesterday; I didn't try to cancel today. Regards, :: Cheemag ::

I don't have the Ask toolbar, despite its determined efforts to install itself. I've run Vipre and Malwarebytes Pro on it and they found nothing. I'll have a look at that. Regards, :: Cheemag ::

CCleaner stops at around 40% in Firefox or Windows temporary files folders. If left working for a very long time, sometimes it will complete, sometimes not; in the latter case it locks the computer requiring a hard reboot, This is a recent phenomenon on my XP machine although it was quite common on my Win-7 64-bit machine, but that was cleared by uninstalling Zone Alarm. Today it locked up on a file askslib.dll in the Windows temporary directory. I rebooted, deleted this file and ran CCleaner again. It found askslib.dll again and locked up on it even though it no longer existed. What is going on here? Regards, :: Cheemag ::