nukecad
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It will be a false positive by Zone Alarm.
Every software that releases a new version gets one or two AV's not recognising the new version at first
It happens because they 'see' something different than they expect from that software and so are not sure if it's real or a fake.
Once the AV company gets it's finger out and updates their listing all is well again.I've just submitted ccsetup565.exe to a VirusTotal check and all 67 AV engines that responded say that it's clean - including Zone Alarm.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/810d4b0d8f4171b13f6d5a4c5c6c5e33209af7af6c378a2218007caae12dc2d6/detection -
Streaming services, Netflix, Youtube, et-al, have already reduced their streaming quality in Europe to cut data consumption.
Not sure if they've done it in the US yet.With everone at home streaming movies, and playing online RPGs, etc. then there will be noticable differences, especially for city dwellers.
I'm rural, so while I don't usually get a fast a connection as in the city I'm not noticing any difference today yet on speeds.
I am noticing that a few particular servers are strugling to meet demands.
Here in the UC the Open University Free course website has been almost unreachable today, it's better now that it's a meal time.
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I'd go further than Dave and say that if you suspect (as we do) that you have been contacted by a Support Scammer then you should get you computer checked over by a malware expert as a matter of some urgency.
I personally would start here: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/9573-im-infected-what-do-i-do-now/
Follow their instructions step by step and carefully.If for some reason you prefer not to use Malwarebytes then there is a list of others offering the same free service which can be found in item 10 of our forum rules:
https://community.ccleaner.com/announcement/15-forum-rules/They all have experts in malware removal who will take you through things step-by-step.
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1809 is now very old in Windows 10 terms, in fact it will be at 'end-of-life' on May 12th. (and It was always buggy anyway, in fact it was withdrawn as an update shortly after release).
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-end-support-windows-10-version-1809-may-12-2020So yes I would definitely update that machine.
Windows may/should have done it automatically anyway, but best to make sure and do it yourself.PS. Windows 10 version 2004 is just around the corner, but I'd get that machine up to 1909 for now.
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Just to add that some of what you are doing is unnecessary, and possibly could be harmful to your computers.
You shouldn't run the registry Cleaner on Windows 10, it could 'break' your computer.
Win10 updates/changes the registry entries at least monthly and so any registry cleaner is unable to keep up with the changes and may remove something that is needed.
Then even with your Win 8 it's surpfluous.
Registry cleaning is no longer needed for modern computers, it won't make your computer run any faster and will only free a miniscule amount of space.
The Registry Cleaner is still in CCleaner as a tool for fixing broken computers, if yours isn't broken then you don't need it.Similarly Drive Wipe, (and Wipe Free space in Custom Clean) are not meant to be used regularly.
They are used to securely clean your drive(s) if you are going to sell them or otherwise pass them on, so that no one can use a recovery tool to recover your old files.
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That sounds like a common Windows 10 problem, not anything that CCleaner has done.
The search in Win10 has had numerous problems in the past year, though they seem to be fixed (for now).Let's see if we can work out what's gone wrong.
So the first question is what version of Windows 10 is it?
On the start menu go to Settings>System>About and scroll down a little to see the Windows version and OS build.The latest fully released Home version is 1909 with 18363.720 as the build.
(Don't worry if yours is white, that's just my preference settings).
If your Windows 10 is not showing that then go to Settings>Update and Security>Windows Update and click on 'Check for Updates'.
That should find and then Download/Install the latest version that is compatible with your laptop. It will take a while to complete.If you already have that version and build then there are further suggestions on how to fix a broken search here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4520146/fix-problems-in-windows-searchYou could also simply try ignoring the searchbox and just opening the start menu a starting to type.
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If you mean the downloaded installer, 'ccleaner_browser_setup.exe'. then yes, once it's been run to install the browser then the installer itself can be deleted.
If you mean something else then please clarify which downloads you mean.
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@kwoodnbj you have tacked your question onto a thread that was last used 11 years ago.
In future please start a new topic when you have a new question.To answer your question:
The portable versions of Recuva, Defraggler, and Speccy have been unavailable for a number of months now.
We've asked the staff but haven't had an answer as to why they have gone missing, or if/when they will be back.
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12 hours ago, Evan4 said:
Yes, I am having the same experience as Mike8. I have tried contacting CCleaner support online and get no response. I tried contacting Piriform and they put me on to some outfit that would like to charge me - at $66 p.m. should I fail to opt uut. (They've done this in the past).
That does not sound right at all. And rings alarm bells.
Piriform is CCleaner.
And why would they refer you to a 3rd party?Can you tell us just how you contacted Piriform for them to 'put me on to some outfit that would like to charge me' ?
I suspect that you may have fallen for what is known as a 'Tech Support Scam'.
If you have then you may need to take further action quickly.
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Oops, my mistake sorry.
Haven't got a clue why my fingers typed that when it's obviously a screenshot of defraggler.
(Maybe because Speccy reports a lot of things wrongly nowadays).The same comment still applies though, Defraggler has not had an update since May 2018.
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You need to contact support to resolve licencing/subscription issues; it's not something that we can do on the open forum.
There is a contact form here: https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Or you can email them: support@ccleaner.com
Be aware that we are told they are busy at the moment, and so the reply may be a bit slow.
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That is normal and is just the way that Windows operates.
Windows always recreates one particular 'cookie' file if it is deleted, (it's not actually a cookie, its a textfile), as well as some other empty temporary files.
CCleaner doesn't know if those files are empty or not so just deletes them anyway.
Other programmes/apps also use IEs temporary file locations for their temporary files, it's just used as a convinent location for putting short lived temporary files.
Since v5.64 when you open CCleaner itself it now puts a couple of temporary files in 'Internet Explorer - Temporary Internet Files', and then finds them to delete.See the second part of this for a fuller explanation:
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It is connecting (it's not your server it's the software updater server), but if it doesn't find any software to update then it's showing the wrong message.
If it does find that something needs updating then it gives a correct message
As Nergal says it's due to be fixed this week so just ignore it for now.See this post for more info:
https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/57004-health-check-unable-to-reach-server-message-to-be-fixed-in-version-565/page/3/?tab=comments#comment-316488 -
33 minutes ago, fotofundi said:
the many hours I'm going to have to spend finding those missing links
Here you go
(I think self-isolating is getting to me).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Link-Hugh-Jackman/dp/B07Q78X77C -
How do you know that it 's not cleaning certain cookies?
Is it simply because if you run it again then it still finds them?Certain cookies (at least one) and temporary files will always come back shortly after you clean them, it's just a Windows thing.
And CCleaner itself now puts a couple of temporary files in 'Internet Explorer - Temporary Internet Files' when you open CCleaner.
Plus if your browser, or anything else, is synced then the syncing will restore anything that CCleaner removes.
See the link below my signature for a longer explanation.Also if your browser is not fully closing but instead pre-loading, or running in the background, then CCleaner can't clean it.
Let's see if we can work out which it is:
You can't easily list what health check has found, so-
Instead of using Health Check use Custom Clean in the following way.
In Options>Advanced set the 'Cleaning results level of detail to 'Advanced Report'.
Go to the Custom Clean and Click on 'Analyze'. (Not Run Cleaner).
That will give you a list of what Custom Clean has found for each category. (If you can clip/screenshot that and add it to your next post we can take a look at what they are).
It will look something like this, you can see here that Firefox has been mostly skipped that's because it was still running.
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There's simply a '1' missing from the front of '14' for the capacity.
Speccy is an old programme and when developed multi- TB drives were definitely not the norm.
I guess whoever set the length of that text display field didn't consider then that drives would get above a single digit in TB's
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I agree that there should at least be a prominent warning that Health Check does it's own thing and takes no notice of the Custom Clean settings.
I also agree that making Health Check the default when installing/updating is a step backwards for CCleaner.
There should at least be the option given during an install, with a brief description of the differences.Health Check is aimed at non-technical users but TBH they have dumbed it down too far, some of the wording used is infantile and confusing, and seeing some options to set in Custom Clean that then apparently don't work (because they are still using HC) is confusing some of them.
(In fact I've gone further and suggested that Health Check should be taken out of CCleaner altogether and released as a seperate app, it should have been developed as a seperate app it just doesn't belong in CCleaner proper).
But all that's up to the Piriform management, staff, and developers. (And probably Avast have their sticky fingers in there somewhere).
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Sorry but I've now done some testing and I can't reproduce your issue.
Whatever I've tried I can't get CCleaner to remove Firefox Bookmarks. Which it shouldn't do.
History get's wiped, but HC is supposed to do that. So is Custom Clean if you tick 'Internet History' for Firefox.What else were you running overnight?
You say a full system backup, but just what else do you run overnight before/after doing that?We may have to put it down as just one of those strange things that happens sometimes with computers that you can never track down a reason for.
But one more thought do you have Firefox set for Automatic Updates? And did it update last night?
Sometimes bookmarks go missing during a Firefox update, you often see it reported on the web..Here's what I tried:
- I ran Custom clean analyze with everything Firefox ticked, no sign of places.sqlite being cleaned. (I didn't finish that clean).
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Switched the CCleaner Home Screen to HC and ran CC in debug mode. Opened Firefox and all my bookmarks were still there.
(The debug log showed nothing unusual and definitely no bookmarks). - Closed Firefox again, ran HC again in normal mode. Opened Firefox, bookmarks were still there.
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To more closely reproduce what you said you had done I left HC as default and set up a scheduled weekly clean. (to run 5 mins later).
Watching Task Manager I saw CC open, run in the background, and close.
Opening Firefox bookmarks were still there. -
Change the schedule time to run again, but this time after the clean restart Windows before opening Firefox.
Opening Firefox bookmarks were still there. -
EDIT. Just for completeness:
I've just also run a scheduled clean using Custom Clean as the default.
Again all bookmarks were untouched.
CCleaner appears to be behaving correctly and leaving bookmarks alone, as it should do.
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Good to hear you got the bookmarks back.
Don't forget to follow the links above and make backups now, just in case.I had guessed that you had Health Check set as the CCleaner default cleaning method.
(It may have got set that way when you updated to v5.64).Scheduled cleans will use whichever cleaning method is set as the default, so your overnight clean has used Health Check.
To change which method CCleaner uses as the default, and so for scheduled cleans, go to Otions>Settings and change the 'CCleaner Home Screen'.
Health Check has a simplified user interface, and what it cleans follows it's own cleaning rules.
The Ticking/Unticking of things (such as Firefox components) in the Custom Clean area are settings for Custom Clean only.
The Custom Clean Settings are not, and will not, be used by Health Check.
You cannot change the settings Health Check will use.
Health Check will always use it's own built-in cleaning rules each and every time that you run it.
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Custom Clean icon has a little 'settings' cogwheel to show you can change it's settings, - Health Check icon doesn't because you can't change it's settings.With a manual run you can untick things after HC has analyzed, but with a scheduled clean that's not an option.
If you want more control of just what is cleaned or not by ticking/unticking the Custom Clean options then you have to use Custom Clean itself to clean.
Having said all that HC should not be removing your Firefox Bookmarks. (History yes, but not bookmarks).
I run it quite a bit for testing user issues and it has never deleted my Firefox Bookmarks.
I've just realised though that I have been aborting after the analyze and not let HC complete a clean since Firefox updated to v74.0 earlier this week.
IAs said it has been known in the past for Firefox to move where it stores bookmarks so suddenly they start getting cleaned by CCleaner. They did it in 2017.
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First thing to try is to look if Firefox has made backups of your bookmarks that are still there.
Open the Firefox menu and select Library>Bookmarks>Show all Bookmarks.
From the toolbar in the window select Import and Backup and hover on Restore.
That will show a list of any bookmark backups that Firefox has made; simply click one to restore it.Unfortunately there is no backup for history, but try searching in File Explorer for 'Places.sqlite' which is where Firefox stores your browsing history.
(To make searching quicker it should be in: %Userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{yourprofileID}\places.sqlite).
Right click it to get Properties, open the 'Previous versions' tab and see if Windows has stored any previous versions to restore.
However CCleaner shouldn't be deleting your bookmarks, so a few questions:
Is your CCleaner Home Screen set to Health Check or Custom Clean? (It's in Options>Settings).
What FireFox version do you have?
Have you recently 'Refreshed Firefox?
Have you recently Updated Firefox?
What operating system are you using?(PS. Firefox may have moved where it stores bookmarks to an area that gets cleaned, it's happened at least once before back in 2017).
This may be a bit late, but how to backup your Firefox in future:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profilesYou could also consider seting up a Mozilla account and syncing your Firefox settings to it.
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The portable versions of Recuva, Defraggler, and Speccy have been unavailable for a number of months now.
We've asked the staff but haven't had an answer as to why they have gone missing, or if/when they will be back.
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I suspect that it has just found the filenames, and the pictures themselves have gone.
Did you try to actually recover them?
A trim (or a defrag/optimize) won't get rid of path\filenames, because these are held in the Master File Table which is never trimmed.
I'd just ignore them as there is nothing to be recovered from that path\filename.
The drive's manufacturer may have a tool to wipe the SSD, but even that may leave the MFT intact.
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Above the Free version Pro gives you:
1 years Priority Support by raising a support ticket https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/requests/new or by emailing support@ccleaner.com.
In CCleaner itself:
More options in Smart Cleaning. eg. automatic cleaning of a browser when you close it.
Scheduling of CCleaner to run automatically.
The ability to clean all user accounts on the computer.
Automatic updating of CCleaner.Those options are clearly marked with 'Pro' next to them.
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Not sure but I think it's probably an Invision issue rather than Piriform.
(I think self-isolating is getting to me).
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It will be a false positive, see here for a longer explanation: