WARNING: CCleaner does it again!

swarfega · 20 Feb 2019

Josey Wales said:

This is true but one should not have to do this. I will forever use CCleaner 5.40.XXXX as it was before Avast bought out Piriform . Everything Avast touches turns into the nickname of this product.

Why not use Wise Disk Cleaner and remove ccleaner altogether.

EdTittel · 20 Feb 2019

I stick to the "slim" version, and no problems or bundleware issues so far.

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Get it from the CCleaner Builds page, usually posts one week after the latest version hits that page.
HTH,
--Ed--

Callender · 20 Feb 2019

bbinnard said:

THE LATEST CCLEANER INSTALLS AVAST SOFTWARE EVEN IF YOU TELL IT NOT TO
Yesterday I downloaded and installed the latest CCleaner installer.

Try to remember the following reply to one of your earlier posts.

Beware CCleaner installation! - Page 4 - Windows 10 Forums

bbinnard · 20 Feb 2019

Yes, I did remember that post. After all the subsequent commotion I thought maybe Avast had learned it's lesson about auto-installing stuff. But I was wrong.

Oh well.

Compumind · 20 Feb 2019

I never had a problem with filehippo in regards to CCleaner.

Here's another link for everyone, the full and immediate build direct from Piriform:

Thanks for downloading CCleaner

Or go with Ed's slim suggestion, as above.

That's it.

TairikuOkami · 20 Feb 2019

bbinnard said:

After all the subsequent commotion I thought maybe Avast had learned it's lesson about auto-installing stuff. But I was wrong.

When Avast was caught lying, they eventually admitted it and said, that it was done on purpose, if no AV was detected, Avast installed with the good intention, to protect the user.

Porthos · 20 Feb 2019

Josey Wales said:

I will forever use CCleaner 5.40.XXXX as it was before Avast bought out Piriform .

Till MS blocks it from running like they did to versions in the past.

Josey Wales · 20 Feb 2019

swarfega said:

Why not use Wise Disk Cleaner and remove ccleaner altogether.

I use that as well. The version of CCleaner that I use was released before Avast got their hand on it.

MeAndMyComputer · 20 Feb 2019

I just did my 3 Win10 computers today and one at our senior center yesterday. Go to
CCleaner Official Site | Clean speed up your PC | Piriform
None of the computers had any problems with Avast or anything else and haven’t for I don’t know how long.
--- When Avast took over, I did have to uncheck Avast at first but that’s been it.
--- I just checked my 3 computers and Avast isn’t anywhere in the system.
--- I don’t know if it makes a difference but I use Windows Defender.
--- What are you using for your anti-virus program?

Post #1 “At that point I decided to give up trying to delete Avast (I've been through that hassle before and didn't want to repeat it)”
--- I’ve had to uninstall Avast that came through when updating CCleaner on a few computers I serviced: fortunately it wasn’t difficult and those users are fine using CCleaner again.

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Dugly · 20 Feb 2019

I'm using 5.53.7034 Pro and never have anything else installed as a result of an update, going back quite at least since 2014 according to the purchase documentation. Perhaps it's because it's the pro version?