Ccleaner Update Offers Improved Privacy

mjnc · Sep 4, 2018

Even though this is a software issue, many MajorGeek visitors use this and come to MG to download the software, so I decided to put this in the Lounge as it is somewhat a general interest topic at MG.

https://betanews.com/2018/08/30/ccleaner-improved-privacy/

If Smart Cleaning is disabled, CCleaner’s background process will close and the feature will not run on startup (same behavior as in v5.44)

In addition to that, there’s a new 'Minimize to System Tray' option and the previous minimize behavior has been restored. There’s also an 'Exit' option available in the system tray menu, so you can now do something you couldn’t do last time around -- quit the program.

It’s certainly a step in the right direction, but wait, what's this? Oh yes, the installer will attempt to force Avast Antivirus on you.

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As shown in the article's screenshot, you can 'opt out' of the antivirus installation by unchecking the box in the lower left corner of the install dialog box.

There is of course an alternative:
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/wise_disk_cleaner.html

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Ccleaner Update Offers Improved Privacy

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