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It's a bit of a strange one because it was a ransomware attack on their admin and records, and not anything that would physically compromise the distribution pipeline or equipment. It was the company that shut down the pipeline and equipment themselves. Whether that's an unnecessary 'Panic mode' or a sensible precaution depends on your point of view. I would have thought that anything intended to do physical damage wouldn't announce itself by encrypting files first, it would go straight for the target. The first you'd know would be when something happened, like all the release valves suddenly being jammed open remotely and spilling fuel oil everywhere. But if you are not sure what the attack is then shutting everything down as a precaution makes sense. The hackers responsible, Darkside, have made a statement for what it's worth: "We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for our motives. Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society. From today we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future."

'Wrong disk type' has been noted many times and seems to be a Windows issue with identifying (some?) disk types or models. CCleaner (and the other Piriform apps) ask Windows what type of disk it is - so they have to go with what Windows says it is. Annoying when Windows gets it wrong, but Windows is 'the boss' on an Windows system..

Confirmed, the staff have been made aware. Looks like it's a misplaced ".0" in the version numbers that is causing the issue.

Confirmed, the staff have been made aware. Looks like it's the misplaced ".0" in the version numbers that is causing the issue.

The install of CCleaner browser has changed some of your file associations, so their icons now show the ccleaner logo and if you double click them they will open in the CCleaner browser. Most browsers will do that during the install, unless you specifically tell them not to. If you don't want them to open in the browser then you simply have to reset the associations for the affected filetypes back to whatever app you do want them to open in. See this post for how to do that: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/57890-don/?tab=comments#comment-318193

I'm not sure why we are suddenly having a resurgence of this question, must be a surge in new users. But yes - there is an explanation (actually more than one) for why some files will always come back immediately after cleaning. It isn't finding more stuff, it's finding the same stuff that it has already cleaned which has come straight back again and is now (usually) empty. It's just the way a computer works. It got to be such a frequent question previously that I wrote a longer explanation of why this happens and what you can do to stop some of it, you can find it here: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043

Please check the dates on threads before replying - You have replied to a thread where the previous post is over 11 years old. Speccy has for years now had a 'Save as text file' option in the file menu.

Just to add that if/when you do delete all those files Defender will then think that it has never run a scan, and may prompt you to run one.

Prompted by this thread: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/60419-how-do-i-exclude-a-software-from-updates/?tab=comments#comment-328834 Allow exclusions to be set in Software Updater for softwares that the user doesn't want updating. Possibly a more radical policy change - Allow limited customisation of Health Check so that 'Security' can be disabled if a user doesn't want software update checks everytime they run it. ie. Let it revert back to QuickClean/Easy Clean if that's what the user wants. I can see a couple of way that that could be easilly achieved. (One is very simple and already known by some of the more advanced users, but as it involves a registry change I won't post it here, it's already mentioned in a link that I gave above).

There isn't currently a way to add an exclude to the software updater, but there is something that you can do to prevent CCleaner trying to update things. If you use Health Check then it runs the software updater each and every time you use it. If instead you use Custom Clean it never runs the Software Updater, you have to run it seperately from the Tools menu. (or do a Health Check). So if you use Custom Clean as your default it won't try to update other softwares. (Unless you run Software Update or Health Check). To set Custom Clean to be your default then go to Options >Settings and change the CCleaner Home Screen. An exclusion for software updates is a good idea though, and they are currently asking for suggestions for what people would like to see in CCleaner v6, so I'll add it to those suggestions. However even if included in v6 an exception/exclusion would only work in the stand alone Software Updater - Health Check is not customisable and so would always try to update it.

Just updating Defender fixed it for me. The logfiles in the hidden folder still needed manually deleting though.

Haven't we seen that, or a similar, Defender logs bug before? Just checked and It's made 184 entries in that directory so far today, and is creating more as I watch. Most are 2KB but there is one from yesterday that's 2MB. Look at the timestamps here: I've updated Defender as suggested in that article, and deleted all those files and the directory is not filling up again. It isn't a directory that CCleaner cleans by default so if you are affected, and it seem that many/most are, then you'll have to delete them manually.

You would see the same/similar if you ran Custom Clean twice in a row. It's normal and will always happen, if you run either/any type of clean repeatedly it will always find some files again just after they have been cleaned. It's just the way computers work. We get asked about it so often that I wrote an explantion and put a link in my signature to explain why it happens. But not everyone has the signature display turned on so here it is again:

CCleaner is no longer flagging VCL as needing an udate. (Software Updater is showing the current v3.0.12 as correct).

My mistake based on what the official Videolan site downloaded for me when I Googled for 3.0.13. I hadn't actually checked to see if there was a later Android version, just went with what it had downloaded. The latest Android version is downloadable through Google Playstore, Amazon Apps, or apk mirrors rather than from the Videolan site. The updating issue with CCleaner seems to have been fixed now - neither Health Check or Software Updater are shouting that there is a new version. PS. This VLC issue is not an update suggestion for CCleaner v6; so I've split these 4 posts into their own thread in CCleaner Help Requests.

It is a problem at VLC. They seem to have have pulled (retraced) the release of v3.0.13 for Windows while they fix a problem. EDIT- CCleaner should have stopped bugging you about it now.

Think I saw somewhere about the checksums being wrong?

The link that Hazelnut gives above was working, but currently gives a '404 Not Found' error. The official VideoLan website is still giving 3.0.12 as the latest download. Checking for Updates from within VLC itself also says that 3.0.12 is still the latest version. Which suggest that 3.0.13 for Windows has been 'pulled' from the official download index, possibly because a bug/glitch was found at the last minute? (It happens). Quite a few sites have mirror copies of the 3.0.13 downloads for Windows that were there, but personally I wouldn't install them. I'll wait for the official release.

Are you getting an error message? See the registration advice here: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/204043844--Problems-activating-or-registering-CCleaner-Professional If that article doesn't help then please contact support by email to: support@ccleaner.com Use the same email where you got the confirmation email if you can, or tell them what it was so that they can find your purchase. PS. Please don't post any specific reference or licence numbers, or any pesonal details, on this open forum - sombody could steal them.

The VCL is a know issue - The VLC glitch is a know issue. They have released a new version, 3.0.13, but (as yet?) it's only released for Android not for Windows. Regarding 'Trackers' in Health Check, they are just cookies, browser history, etc. - Have a read of the link in my signature below any of my posts. PS. If you are using Chrome or a chrome based browser then you may find this worth a read too, and clear your history regularly: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/60323-is-chrome-flocing-with-you/?tab=comments#comment-328401

To explain a bit more: CCleaner won't let you Wipe Free Space on an SSD because it's not needed and it can be detrimental to the life of the SSD. WFS is used on a spinning disc HDD when you are giving/selling the drive (or the computer) to someone else. It overwrites all the free space with random characters and then deletes them so that none of the files you have deleted can be recovered by the new owner. If someone tries to recover files from it they'll only recover the random characters. There is no reason for wiping the free space other than to prevent possible recovery of deleted files. SDD's work differently and deleted files can't (normally) be recovered - so WFS is not needed on an SSD and would be a waste of time. In fact it's a bit worse than that because running it frequently, especially with multiple overwrites, can shorten the life of the SSD. PS. You should also find that you can't set secure deletion for an SSD either - again because overwrites are not needed and can be detrimental to an SSD.

I'm seeing it too. VLC v3.0.13 has been released, but as far as I know it's only released for Android not Windows. I've flagged it to the staff.

I've had similar 'bad sector' problems with 20H2. Recently I got a new SSD and 20H2 would not format it because of 'bad sectors' - another machine with 1909 formated it with no problem.

I assume that you have Smart Cleaning turned on. Go into Options > Smart Cleaning and the automatic browser cleaning section. You can click on the down arrow for each browser and change the settings for each. If you want the browser cleaned on closing but don't want a message about it then change it to 'Automatically clean on closing without notification' for that browser. You can have it set differently for different browsers.

Nope, my gif and username simply reflect that I used to work in the nuclear industry. (There were some things about that work that were secret, but most of it was just routine). PS. They are not actually our bosses, all the mods here are simply trusted users who get 'invited' to do a bit more and we do it for no pay. Piriform/Avast employees can be identified as they all have 'CCleaner' in their username and use the CCleaner logo as their avatar.