Piriform Personal Security Concern with CCleaner Latest v. 5.45.6611
I have noticed two things with CCleaner latest version (5.45.6611)
1.) Under ""Options" then "Privacy" setting, Piriform, has removed the option to NOT collect information when using CCleaner off of users computers.
You are now forced to allow Piriform to collect data from your system, and there is no way to stop this, unless you remove the application.
2.) I also noticed that now CCleaner dose not shut down/close when you exit out of the application, it still shows the applicatio
Hi all,
Thanks for your feedback. We value your input and want to acknowledge your concerns around the changes to active monitoring (heartbeat).
The new CCleaner heartbeat reports only non-personal, absolutely non-identifiable usage information for the purpose of improving CCleaner. This could be, the percentage of users who have experienced a crash, or are using scheduled cleaning.
First and foremost, being able to detect usage patterns across our entire user base allows us to ac