Man that program has gone down the fucking drain. First bundling in bloatware, now this?
What’s a good alternative?
I replaced it with BleachBit after their auto-updater led to a situation where everyone was advised to wipe Windows.
What’s a good alternative?
I haven’t used any such tool for almost a decade probably and I don’t think there’s a need to nowadays. Occasionally I run the Windows Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of temp files and Windows Update installation files and that’s about it. Cleaning the registry is bullshit anyway that does more harm than good (doesn’t speed up anything certainly).
Thankfully I ditched this long time ago
Yeah ccleaner looks a little sketch. I was told to use it but bleachbit is open source and better.
Damn CCleaner is not malware itself?
In fairness to CCleaner, there’s lots of other organizations that were victims of MoveIt’s breach.
“mass exploitation of a vulnerability in the widely-used file transfer software MOVEit has allowed cybercriminals to steal data from a dizzying array of businesses and governments…” - Wired Article on the MoveIt breaches
Trusting MoveIt was regrettable, but lots of folks made the same mistake.
The maker of the popular optimization app CCleaner has confirmed hackers stole a trove of personal information about its paid customers following a data breach in May.
In May?? And they say so now?
