Note that this year Avast took full control of CCleaner. But this may be of interest to users of CCleaner who update the program using downloads from the official CCleaner download site. And it possibly should be moved to its own thread. UPDATE: It now appears that Piriform has released the new truely portable CCleaner in. I find all of this automatic updating and phoning home without user authorization is getting a bit too much. Looks like it is back to the free version and just disable the updater task and/or delete the updater file.

exe, (actually the portableapps software) whereas Piriform offered the portable version of CCleaner as a zipfile that worked without any thirdparty. The link to Majorgeeks also wants to download an. Uh, no… The reason for the portable is to NOT have to install it. Portableapps also wants to run an installer of some type. is not affiliated, sponsored, authorized or otherwise associated by/with Piriform Ltd or its associated companies.” įrom the website: “CCleaner® is a registered trademark of Piriform Ltd. It’s also available from at the following link. ĭoes not clean Windows Defender’s scan history, the MRUs of Microsoft Office, and most recently used documents and other MRU files of Windows Explorer anymore.”

Won’t delete browsing session data anymore by default. The second major change of CCleaner 5.36 changes some of the program’s default cleaning rules. The task is set to run on system start, and once a day as well. Piriform push out updates to the program to user machines even if only the free version of CCleaner is installed on these machines. Įmergency Updater is a new feature of CCleaner that comes with its own executable file - CCUpdate.exe - and a new scheduled task called CCleaner Updater.

“The new version ships with two major changes, namely a new Emergency Updater feature, and new default cleaning rules for some programs. In a break with its past behavior, the free version of CCleaner is apparently connecting daily to Piriform and receiving automatic software updates now.įor users of the program who want to decide their own updating schedule for it, especially after its recent malware troubles, this info is good to know.Īpparently you can disable the updating task in the Task Scheduler, and using the portable version might be a safer route if you want to avoid auto-updating - see the article for more details. FYI – from an article I saw on Martin Brinkmann’s site:

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