CCleaner how often to run

CCleaner for Windows
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M.$. have earned a terrible reputation for the wanton damage they cause.

Last year they bundled in with security patch updates a Firefox Addon.

I immediately recognised the intrusion when I allowed M.$. to notify me of relevant patches,

and decided that Mozilla knew better than M.$. and I would wait for Mozilla to issue a proper fix if needed.

Many people were less cautious than I, and M.$. maliciously hacked their Firefox.

What purported to be an ADD-ON was NOT, instead it was a VIRUS that locked itself in.

The Firefox Tools / Add-ons listed the M.$. virus along with the legitimate add-ons,

BUT just like a virus, it needed malware removal tools/skills to remove it,

because the normal UNINSTALL option was greyed out for this so called add-on.

This M.$ virus added a major security vulnerability to Firefox, attempting to degrade it to I.E. level.

see :- http://www.windowssecrets.com/2009/06/04/02-I-cant-believe-weve-put-out-200-newsletters.

Several years ago System Administrators lost their systems.

This was due to security updates that went wrong.

It caught them by surprise because they had restricted Automatic Updates to "NOTIFY but don't download ...".

Their standard practice was to prohibit system wide updates until they had applied updates to a few test machines and confirmed essential applications still functioned.

M.$ said sorry, and explained that the "NOTIFY but dont ..." was ignored because the patch was so urgent.

The patch was only intended to give them better access to control updating.

My interpretation is that before the patch they could ignore the "NOTIFY but .." but not the "Turn Off Automatic Updates",

and after the patch they could also ignore the "Turn Off" setting.

I wonder if the extra stranglehold that M.$. obtained was used to force in the Firefox Add-on virus.

Those are a small sample of my reasons to insult M.$.

Why do I still use Windows :-

1) life would be boring without the constant battles to maintain control ;

2) every-one else in the family is accustomed to applications running under Windows ;

3) I suspect some of the applications in use do not have alternatives that run under Linux etc.

Regards

Alan

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First, you shouldn't say "M.$". It makes you look like one of those stupid *nix fanboys, which you aren't.

The FF add-on was not a virus at all - simply a (failed) attempt to make life easier for .NET developers.

It had a vulnerability...well, yes, so what ? FF already has the most flaws from all modern browser, and they usually don't patch a flaw unless a PoC is released, it's not like it was invincible and MS made it vulnerable.

But we should stay on topic - if you want to discuss that further, you can open a thread in the Software forum ;)

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Iv used linux for 15 years ty

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hmmmmmmm.

Flame War has removed this topic from it's original purpose.

both of your are right and both of you are wrong and neither of you will convince the other

soooooo. . . .

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You're are all experienced members who have the ability to make good reading for other users.

The original poster asked advice on how often to run ccleaner, let's keep it on topic please.