Ccleaner malware removal tool install#
Ccleaner malware removal tool software#

Then a few years ago, I decided to get rid of all their stuff (using their Uninstaller until I found another better Uninstaller.

Ccleaner malware removal tool install#

Then there was all that controversy. and I never did like the slightly sleazy way they used to install (without telling you, except deep in the ELUA) random PUP/trialware programs, along with their specific program, unless you used the advanced install method, where you were given a choice to uncheck and thereby prevent, the additional programs from being installed by default.

Ccleaner malware removal tool software#

Half a dozen years ago, I used to run a lot of IObit software on my systems (ASC, Smart Defrag, IObit Uninstaller). Historically, I'll run a computer until it loses that 'new electronics smell', maybe 8 to 10 years and then get another one. The bottom line is I just use my computer systems and don't spend much time worrying about them. Someday I'll get burned and then I'll stop doing this. MSSE and/or Mbam will squawk and tell me what the payload is and I stop. I don't allow things to get installed so I don't get infected. I've been known to click on links purposefully to see what they payload might be. I honestly wonder how they pick things up sometimes, sometimes I know because some people cannot resist clicking on things they shouldn't. I'm constantly cleaning systems of friends and family who seem to get hit by a variety of 'drive by' infections. and that probably stems from the fact that I don't get infected. I don't spend much time worrying about security on my system. I run Microsoft security essentials and Malwarebytes.

Granted I haven't known of any recent problems, but I'm not really the forgive and forget kind of guy. Back-in-the-day, I've spent way to many hours trying to rebuild registry's that were scrambled, then there was the stolen intellectual property, then there was the revenue deal they made where they were selling access to systems to adware slime-balls. I wouldn't put ASC on a system of someone I was trying to punish. I guess I should end my boycott and transfer it over to CCleaner (never thought I would be saying those words) Used to run it until they got caught with helping themselves to Intellectual property back in 2009. Perhaps I'll try Advanced SystemCare again.