CCleaner Is Silently Updating Users Who Turned Off Automatic Updates

[harlan4096]

CCleaner is forcing updates on users who specifically opt out of automatic updates. Users will only find out about these unwanted updates when they check the version number.
The change was noticed by a forum user last week. The unwanted update happens in the background, without the users’ knowledge, and also results in Piriform gathering anonymized information about the user.
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Full reading: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/ccleaner-i...c-updates/

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[krish]

Time to stay away from Ccleaner it seems

[jasonX]

That's how Avast made CCleaner into "Crap"...tsk. Started to use the Portable version when I noticed that I had to use AppGuard to stop CCleaner updates. Am now trying out WiseCleaner. Thanks for the info!

[harlan4096]

More info about this article: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/19/new-cc...c-updates/

[lkjk]

[Lano]

I checked in person and it is sure that this story is not true, it's false 100%.
True, there's one thing that I do not like personally - this is that the deleting windows.old has been removed. And it's true that there was a problem with saving some of the users options, but that does not mean it would have been impossible to turn off auto-updates.
Someone is obviously interested in a lunatic campaign against CCleaner. That is the reason why such a lie is so agressively. For example, I haven't found till now any bad word about wise clearner, wise care 365 and wise registry cleaner, although they have been completely unsafe and very unstable for more than a year.
Maybe there's the reason behind it. Don't know. But it's clear, sombody is happy if CCleaner disappears. At least not me.
PS even commandline features worked again.