tlinMaine

After signing up for CClean Pro and activating, I ran a number of programs: Healthcheck, Performance Optimizer, Custom Clean, Driver Updater, and Registry. I have been using the free CCleaner application for a number of years. This time with CCleaner Pro, however, I seem to have damaged two of my four browsers: Brave and Firefox. If I leave the browser temporarily to do another task, when I return, the browser has become unresponsive. Sometimes the tabs that are already open will work, sometimes not. New tabs typically do not work. Sometimes they'll say "Crash" if I hover the cursor; mostly they refuse to accept a new URL by simply blanking it out. Do you suppose Performance Optimization caused this by forcing a necessary background process to sleep????? ... or what? I stopped all Brave processes, uninstalled it, and then went looking for any leftover folders and files. I deleted them all until there was no trace. Also ran the register cleanup. Then I reinstalled Brave. Same thing. Still doesn't work. I have to kill it and restart all the tabs I was working on.

Today (9/20/17) I received an update pop-up, allegedly from CCleaner that a new, important update was available. When I said go ahead, an update proceeded immediately. I got a message that this was an "unusual" download and might not be safe. Uninstalled and erased everything followed by a security scan. Nothing found. If I get the pop-up again, for CCleaner 3.535, I post the image. TLin Maine *** Re-installed CCleaner 5.34 and immediately got the "important update" notice. Screen capture attached.