Anthony A

I have a question regarding this. If your current version of CCleaner has a winapp2.ini that you have added applications to do they automatically work with the new version of CCleaner if you install it over the old version as was just suggested?

Well that concerns me and I'm sure that the experts on this forum will get to the bottom of this. When I first installed CCleaner I checked off each application one at a time and ran analyze to see what it found. I than followed the paths to see what was there. After I learned about winapp.ini and actually added Ewido 4 to CCleaner that way. So when I installed AVG a few days ago I looked a the winapp.ini entries and they don't look right. Some of the entries are not logs and there are logs in the AVG folders that are not targeted by CCleaner. So until this is cleared up I will not check off AVG. One thing to keep in mind though is AVG Free is very popular and there are many users. I have not red of one instance of CCleaner damaging AVG. I am new to AVG and have not spent much time on thier forum but I will do some searches and maybe post some questions there. Just for your info you have to register during the installation of AVG to be able to post on thier forums. It seems you cannot unless you have installed AVG at some point.

You mean clear the cache and immediately reboot the computer? I sorta do that. I shut down the laptop at night before I go to sleep. I have been running CCleaner to clean out everything and than shutting down the computer. Next day the favicon problem is back. I received your message and will look over those links. Thank You.

Did a few definition updates and ran a few scans with AVG to create some logs. I than ran CCleaner and cleaned everything but AVG. I than checked marked AVG and ran analyze with CCleaner so only the AVG data would show up. Take a look. Those paths don't look like the ones in the winapp.ini.

I do not have any special program for saving favicons. Maxthon does not do anything different with them than IE. Maxthon is an big IE addon really. It runs of IE's engine. Add a book mark to IE and it shows up in Maxthon. Clear the cache in Maxthon and you go into IE's internet options to do it. So I don't think Maxthon has anything to do with it. I really don't know how long this has been happening. I just recently installed and started using CCleaner and prior to that I just cleared IE's cache and never really paid attention to what was actually in there. Running analyze with CCleaner I can see how much is going to be removed when it cleans so when I see a bunch of entries for IE and I only hit a few sites it made me go into IE and look and you can see by the screen shot what I seen. Pretty weird. Everything else on my computer is running very well since I removed Norton but that's when I really notice the favicon thing starting so I am wondering what the relation is there. One more thing about those favicons is that they are my book marked sites but if you go into my book marks they do not have favicons because I clear the cache several times a day and that dumps all the favicons in IE (works different in Fire Fox) If this is some how malware related than it's the strangest bug I have heard of. Makes favicons from my book marked sites appear in IE's cache when I haven't been to those sites. I will have to install HJT and learn how to run it and post a log over the next little while and post the log here and a few other places and see whats what. I run a good amount of scans and they are spotless. I do. Didn't notice that address for it though. That explains why it's in there than. All those favicons are book marked sites.

OK lets see if I did this image thing right. What I did was empty the IE cache of all temporary Internet files via Tools/Internet options/delete files. I then went in and looked to make sure they were gone. The cache was empty except for some cookies because I did not delete cookies just temporary Internet files. I than visited MY Yahoo, MSN Money and Market Watch and a few other sites. I only went to the home pages I did not do any browsing around. My cache is filled with entries and take a look at the favicon stuff. Those are favicons from my booked marked sites and I did not visit them. I just went to the sites I mentioned. Those favicons were not there when I checked after emptying the cache. Edit, the majority of those favicons are my booked marked sites a few are not. That one about internet and your brain is weird and not one of my book marks. Look how many things are in there only after a few pages.

I don't have HJT and don't know how to use it. I will have to read up on it. Let me explain a little clearer on the problem. If I clear the IE temp internet files and the cache is now empty than go to a few sites I expect to see some entries in the cache when I go in and look through internet otpions in IE. What I'm seeing is many more entries than you would expect and entries that have nothing to do with the site I visited. Whats more strange is all the favicons from my booked marked sites that appear in there. I did not visit those sites yet the favicons are in there. Clear the cache again and go in and check to confirm it is empty and it is. Visit a few pages and go in and see whats in the cache and sure enough there a whole bunch of favicons there from my booked marked sites and they are not always the same ones. Very weird. I would probably not have noticed if not for CCleaner and the analyze feature. How do I post a screen shot or you?

Recently had to remove Norton Internet Security from my system see here http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=6672 Since than I have noticed something very strange about IE. I would probably have not noticed if not for CCleaner. Here is what is happening. I run CCleaner and use the analyze feature to see what will get removed. I always look it over to see whats there. Then run it and clean it out. Yesterday I did this and cleaned out everything except the advanced section. Than I did my browsing for about half an hour using Fire Fox. Only used IE for my banking site. I ran analyze with CCleaner and there were a large amount of entries from the IE cache. There were a few cookies and of course the cookies I have set in CCleaner not to be removed but there were all kinds of temp internet files for IE. Remember I only used it at my bank site since the last time I ran CCleaner. So I go into the actual cache of IE by tools/internet options/temporary internet files/settings/view files. This will show you all the stuff in IE's files that gets deleted when you clean up the temporary internet files. When I opened this and looked it had many entries of sites I had not been to. Not only that but there were many (20+) favicons in there and they were all from my book marks. Very strange. So I emptied the cache and just visited a few pages and looked in there again. Again there were entries that I have no idea were they came from and many favicons from some more of my book marks. I haven't been to these sites in a long while and certainly not since I emptied the cache only minutes before. My first thought is that maybe malware is causing this and was also responsible for my Norton getting ruined. So I did this, Looked in Task Manager for any unusual processes running and there were none. I am familair with all my running processes in Task Manager. Updated and ran Spybot S&D, clean Ewido 4, clean Ad-Aware, clean Superantispyware, clean AVG Antivirus 7, clean Computer Associates online scanner, clean CWshredder, clean Not even a tracking cookie. Everything else works fine. Nothing else happening to make me think it's malware. Even now after visiting only a few sites the IE cache has many entries and favicons from booked marked sites I am not visiting. Has anyone seen this before?

OK, %allusersprofile% I found those entries in documents and settings/all users/application data. As for the entries with %windir%, if that stands for Windows directory than these paths do not exist on my computer FileKey5=%windir%\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\upd7bin|*.* FileKey6=%windir%\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\avg7upd|$history FileKey7=%windir%\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\avg7upd|*.log FileKey8=%windir%\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data|*.log FileKey9=%windir%\Application Data\AVG7\Log|*.log I went into c:/windows and there is no All Users or Application Data path to follow from that directory. Also there are more logs in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users than listed in that winapp.ini. The ones that are listed in the winapp.ini with %windir% are actually in the %allusersprofile% path. Windows XP SP2.

I have installed the latest version of AVG tonight ( replacing Norton night mare internet security). I was looking through the winapp.ini for the AVG entry and it is huge. 9 different areas to clean out. This is the entry [Grisoft AVG 7.0] LangSecRef=3024 Detect=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Grisoft\Avg7 Default=True FileKey1=%allusersprofile%\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data|*.log FileKey2=%allusersprofile%\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\upd7bin|*.* FileKey3=%allusersprofile%\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\$history|*.* FileKey4=%allusersprofile%\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\avg7upd|*.log FileKey5=%windir%\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\upd7bin|*.* FileKey6=%windir%\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\avg7upd|$history FileKey7=%windir%\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data\avg7upd|*.log FileKey8=%windir%\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data|*.log FileKey9=%windir%\Application Data\AVG7\Log|*.log I tried to follow the paths to the files manually and I can't understand how they are written. All the logs for AVG I found were in c/documents and settings/ all users/application data/griftsoft. Open the griftsoft folder and there are several entries and sub folders that contain logs. It doesn't look like the paths listed in the winapp.ini. What does %windir% and %allusersprofile% mean? I would like to go look at each of those paths separately if I could understand them

Norton had me run 3 tools. MSIFIX.bat file SymNRT.exe file SYMMSICEANUP.reg file This was supposed to totally uninstall and obviously hasn't.

Yes thank you.

If I use CCleaner to fix the issues and just correct the Norton/Symantec issues I really won't mess up any thing else right? I mean it's just the Norton issues I will be fixing and that program is "removed". It shouldn't damage any thing that I need right? Thanks. One more thing. When CCleaner makes a back when you correct issues does it back up the whole registry or jus the corrected issue? Where do I find the back up? When I find it do I just double click it and it installs itself? Thanks

Well long story short, Windows Update trashed my Norton and it has to be uninstalled. Well I might as well be removing a brain tumor because this thing is a disease. I have been on the phone all day on and off with Norton support and we have run all the removal tools and even went into the registry with them and deleted files left over. What a joke this program is. Any way I have been assured that Norton has been totally removed. Guess what when I open Windows Security center it says Norton Firewall and Internet security are up and running fine. They have been gutted from my machine!! So I run CCleaner on the issues tab and of course there are all kinds of references to Norton and Symantec. I really don't know if i should try and fix them. I just really want Windows security Center to not say they are installed and running. I want them to monitor and report on the new programs I will be installing. Any suggestions on what entires might be responsible for this problem? Thank You

I am running XP and CCleaner cleaned out Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\index.dat Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist<number>\index.dat It didn't clean out Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Cookies\index.dat but that is a tiny 46 kb file I don't see the Documents and Settings\<YourUserName>\Local Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat are you sure that is the correct path. I looked at the dat files and they were very small before they were removed. How can that be when they log every web site you visit?

I am having the opposite problem. I can't seem to clear the most recent used programs list from the start menu. I have the option "user assist history" checked in the advanced section but that doesn't do it.

I had a similar problem when I first installed CCleaner. The solution was to go Options-> Advanced-> delete files in Windows temp folder older than 48 hours. Uncheck that option and it should delete the temp folder for you.

Yes but he is saying CCleaner actually breaks his Java and requires a reinstall of Java. That isn't good. I did a search in the forum and didn't see any mention of that problem before. My Java is working fine after a scan with CCleaner and Sun Java checked.

Great that works thank you. The confusion for me was that I was under the impression CCleaner was updated to include Ewido as of this change log v1.29.295 - Fixed IE 7.0 cookie cleaning. - Updated Adobe Photoshop CS2 cleaning. - Updated Ewido Anti-Malware cleaning. - Updated Nero cleaning. - Updated eTrust EZ Antivirus cleaning. - Updated Hebrew Translation. - Added Lithuanian Translation. - Added Albanian Translation. - Updated installer routines. - Minor performance improvements. and I have version v1.32.345 of CCleaner and use Ewido 4. Everything is OK now.

Do you have Ewido 4? Do you have the full or free version? This link http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showto...53&hl=ewido people were having issues with Ewido not showing up and the winapp.ini looked like the one you just posted. It had to be changed to work with Ewido 4. How can I get Ewido 4 to show up?

Can some one post what the winapp.ini entry for Ewido 4 looks like in the newest version of CCleaner?

Yes I do. I have the newest version of Ewido 4.0.0.172 and it is still on the trial version period. This is the winapp.ini entry for Ewido in my copy of CCleaner version 1.32.345 slim version. [Ewido Anti-Malware (Log)] LangSecRef=3024 Detect=HKLM\Software\ewido Default=True FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\Ewido\Security Suite|logfile.txt FileKey2=%ProgramFiles%\Ewido Anti-Malware|logfile.txt As you can see the 3rd file key mentioned in the thread is not present in my copy. Since I have the most recent version of CCleaner I wonder why it's missing? Should I add the entries listed in that thread and if so should I edit the winapp.ini or create a winapp2.ini. It was suggested to edit the winapp.ini directly and not winapp2.ini Is this what it should look like [Ewido Anti-Malware (Log)] LangSecRef=3024 Detect=HKLM\Software\ewido anti-spyware Default=True FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\Ewido\Security Suite|logfile.txt FileKey2=%ProgramFiles%\Ewido Anti-Malware|logfile.txt FileKey3=%ProgramFiles%\ewido anti-spyware 4.0|logfile.txt

OK I have read that thread several more times. Does the winapp.ini need to be modified or should Ewido be showing up on it's own in the newest version of CCleaner? Also if it needs to be modified should I edit winapp.ini or do this in winapp2.ini? Thank You.

I have read several articles/commentaries about why you should not clean the prefecth because it actually will slow the system down. Just out of curiosity I selected to analyze the prefetch and see how much is in there and to my surprise there isn't much on my system or the other computer I recently installed CCleaner on. On this computer it comes up empty with 0 bites to be removed What is up with that?

Thank you. So the Firefox cookie behaviour in CCleaner is normal. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't a bug. What about the IE index dat files? I thought this listed a log of every website visited? I only have 7 entries in the file when I run analyze and I have never cleaned this section out.