4that Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Hello...long time fan of CCleaner. A great tool. I'm curious about this behavior of IE9. I'll tell my story. I use FF pretty much always. I do have IE9 installed on my win 7 machine. So, today I was watching a few videos on YouTube. Using FF, and with no time in the recent past had I used IE and most certainly ran cc tween online sessions anyway. And as I often do I ran CCleaner, current version, after I was done to clear out all the cookies and flash files my add on's forget to get rid of. well...surprisingly I had 2 cookies from YouTube that were said to be in IE's folder. I have no idea how that could be. I did not fire up IE, rarely do. Wonder if anyone else out there noticed things like this...and maybe someone has a good idea on why that would happen. I'm simply curious and not waving a red flag. I find it an interesting behavior on my software's part. One change I made was updating CCleaner today. And it now includes Removal of Incorrect Firewall rules. I'm wondering if that might have been the change. Does IE get talked to by someone more easily now? Beats me. With my win 7 machine I just use the built in firewall. It seems to work and is customizable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted March 28, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 28, 2011 Flash cookies should be completely separate from web browser cookies, unless of course you physically see those YouTube cookies located in your User Profile\Cookies folder where IE can store cookies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4that Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 Flash cookies should be completely separate from web browser cookies, unless of course you physically see those YouTube cookies located in your User Profile\Cookies folder where IE can store cookies. Yes, you are correct. My concern came from why did IE9 have cookies when I didn't run it any time prior to my last cleaning. And the cookies that came up were regular cookies not LSO's. it's the adobe cookies that make me use ccleaner often.. for some reason my FF add on doesn't always get em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted March 28, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 28, 2011 Because many programs and much of windows is still using Internet Explorer even if you do not. This is why: 1) You'll see Cache, history and even cookies for IE even if you don't use it 2) You should ALWAYS update to the latest browser version (which you have but many who read this will refuse to do, and thus open them, and any computer their's comes into contact with, up to the vulnerabilities found if the earlier versions) ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted March 28, 2011 Moderators Share Posted March 28, 2011 Nergal you make a very good valid point, essentially even if someone never physically clicks to run IE they're still actuality using it and using it allot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4that Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 Thanks for the replies. Regarding what I was talking about, I went ahead and tried it again.. I ran ccleaner, then started FF and when to YouTube, watched a few minutes of something, then quit FF and fired up ccleaner. This time IE didn't have any cookies but it did have some history to delete. I do know that IE is used by various MS things and I occasionally get things to delete from IE...but this behavior is different than it used to be for me. Yesterday when it had YouTube cookies in IE was very strange and I've never seen that happen before (unless I was using IE) and I do pay attention to what's going on with this machine. Something changed, don't know what. Recent changes I've made is updating ccleaner and running it's registry cleaner with the new Invalid Firewall rule. And I recently moved to the latest FF4, was using the beta of that prior. I've had IE9 on this machine for quite awhile so that wasn't a change. Oh..there was a MS out of cycle update last week for me. lol...man...computers... I think I'll try putting the deleted invalid rules back and see if that changes things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4that Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 Ok..so I did use ccleaner's registry backup of my erasure of the Invalid Firewall Rules. And with 3 different tests of exactly what I was doing that led to the difference in browser behavior i mentioned above, well, I'm now back to how it behaved before. My test did include a couple very long ones...ahh..was watching life of brian....couldn't stop laughing. again, that test get's the same results too. No longer get strange IE things to delete. So, one of those rules wasn't invalid after all. lol, those names of those rules are so obscure I will never understand them I figure. But I'm happy to know the Win 7 firewall does do some work. Nothing better than seeing it with one's own eyes. Anyway, seems mystery solved. And again, ain't trying to wave a red flag here. I consider CCleaner a great tool. And i am entirely aware that messing with all those registry entries is a tricky business. I'm glad cc has the back up option and I'm glad I use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoteles Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 I posted this elsewehere on this Forum but nobody, so far, has come up with an answer. As this page appears to be on the same issue, maybe I can get some results here. Since upgrading to CC v3.05.1408 and running a registry scan, I am seeing multiple entries to clean which says "Invalid Firewall Rule". As well as showing programmes I have on my computer, there are listings showing many I do not have - such as AOL, AVG, Opera, Live Messenger and so on. I never had this problem before the latest CC was installed. They all appear after I click on > Registry > Scan for Issues. Needless to say I did not run the 'fix selected issues'. In total, there are about 900 items listed!! This is doing my head in! "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted April 5, 2011 Moderators Share Posted April 5, 2011 Invalid Firewall rules is a new section in the Reg integrity. For the apps you don't have yes remove those entries. Please next time start your own thread. This has NOTHING to do with this thread. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoteles Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Invalid Firewall rules is a new section in the Reg integrity. For the apps you don't have yes remove those entries. Please next time start your own thread. This has NOTHING to do with this thread. Thanks for the reply. Perhaps you could have just moved the posting to the correct thread rather than make comments like that. "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Thanks for the reply. Perhaps you could have just moved the posting to the correct thread rather than make comments like that. You are to impatient and ungrateful. You started your own topic on 2nd April and Ishi responded the same day. When you hijacked this topic on the 3rd April you therefore lied when you said no one had answered. Now you think Nergal should move your post back to your original thread ! ! ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted April 23, 2011 Moderators Share Posted April 23, 2011 Absolutely right Alan, there are 17 posts now in that thread ... http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=32127&st=0&p=190974entry190974 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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