perpetumMobile: Your English does you credit, and it's all the more impressive for being self-taught. Would that I was so fluent in a language not my own.

As you seem to have some unexplained dislike of CCleaner, and as your comment is heavily loaded with bias as well as misinformation, I hope you won't mind me setting the record straight:

(1) It's now 14 years since this software was released by its British developer. Contrary to what you say, it has always been free and is free now (as a simple check on its website would've confirmed to you, before you posted here.) CCleaner does offer a paid version but the features it incorporates are -- in my experience -- inessentials rather than fundamental improvements of the core product;

(2) CCleaner's creator set up his own London-based company, Piriform, to oversee and market both it and several other Windows utilities. During Piriform's days, CCleaner never "successfully infected" (your phrase, though I wonder why) a single PC. Had it done so, word would have spread very quickly amongst its global use base.

In July this year, Piriform was bought out by Avast. In September this year, Avast's security was breached by hackers such that a malicious payload was attached to CCleaner downloads from Avast's servers.

Please note that I have no connection with Piriform of yesteryear or Avast of today. I just feel that when misinformation is up-ticked on a thread as likely to be as widely read as this, then in fairness to all a correction is due.

MikeR  –  6 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+28)

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Jim C,
In fact, the domain KCSoftware.com was registered February of 2004. CCleaner.com was registered May of 2004. Perhaps CCleaner is the one who is copying from KC! (I seriously doubt it, but this is just to point out what happens when we jump to conclusions.)

Bruce Fraser  –  6 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+16)

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Jim C, About the name-I don't know,but ''maybe'' the software company name (KC Softwares) have something with this product name!?
About the ''great'' CCleaner-for several years that product is far from the best cleaning solution,and as I wrote here (in several occasions),this is the most used app for cleaning only because they are so long on the market,also CCleaner is not FREE despite so many opposite claims whenever some cleaning program is offered on GOTD.
And finally mine suspicion in Piriforms developers ability is confirmed.Great CCleaner successfully infected over 2.27 M users in just one day.On top of all they didn't detect malware by themselves-so much about their ability.Malicious, data-harvesting software had piggybacked on its installer program.Nobody can't predict how many users of CCleaner still have that malware on their machines.
About the KCleaner-I tried it before,and it's working.In this field there are so many options so I don't use it,as I'm sticking to applications which I prefer due their aggressiveness to cleaning.I'm using Wipe PRO for basic cleaning(I don't care if nobody didn't hear for Wipe,but I'm pleased with it's performance-and I never got infected with malware with Wipe).For deeper cleaning and maintenance my choice is Kerish Doctor,WinOptimizer,RegOrganizer and build in windows tools. My machines are running smoothly for years(without single system crash),so for now I don't want to change anything. As always-sorry for my English I learned it by myself.

perpetumMobile  –  6 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+16)

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