Talk:CCleaner

message: I noticed that this page has been deleted previously before creating it, but I thought I'd give it another shot. I am in no way associated with the product or company. Merely someone that uses the product.
Reasons for adding:
Via Google Trends if you compare CCleaner against "Spybot" and "Ad-aware" it in some cases rates higher than Ad-ware and tends to be a close third. Both Ad-aware and Spybot have pages on Wikipedia.
Via Google News CCleaner has 600+ news articles that use its name.
Via Alexa.com if you compare ccleaner.com, lavasoftusa.com, safer-networking.org which are the sites for CCleaner, Ad-aware, and Spybot respectively you will find that CCleaner.com is currently rating ABOVE the other two in reach, page rank, and page views.
Its parent company which is Piriform has released a second product, Recuva, and is currently working on a "defrag tool" according to the Products page.
CCleaner is also mentioned in one other Wikipedia article: Windows Startup Process.
I believe that while CCleaner may not be extraordinarily important in the grand scheme of things it is important enough to warrant the space for an article.
Thanks.
--Campbecf 21:03, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Link to deletion article: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ccleaner --Campbecf 21:05, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Firstly, you can't vote here; secondly, WP:NOT#HOWTO. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 13:43, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't be so helpful and welcoming, or we'll blush and start writing better articles! ExitFilm(For a Music) (talk) 23:07, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous Deletions 

message: I removed this unreferenced claim. This really needs a reference, else I would consider that CCleaner is correctly doing its job of finding malware.
"There are several reported instances of systems that have been infected by the Vundo Trojan (also known as Virtumonde) after downloading CCleaner." Widefox (talk) 13:04, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: To note, CCleaner does not claim to (and does not) detect or remove malware. It cleans out temporary files and other miscellaneous unneeded files and registry keys in Windows. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:43, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just for a complete record; while I'm sure ccleaner doesnt CLAIM to remove malware (let alone actively detect; which it doesnt), it has been used for years in cleaning up malware. One of its functionalities is a powerful uninstall for other software. Similar to the Windows add/remove software list. So, while not specifically an anti-malware itself, it is/was/can be used in anti-malware situations. Although I feel the need to add that, recently, it appears that ccleaner itself can carry malware. 82.173.192.255 (talk) 08:51, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: infected CCleaner

message: Has this general advice about Windows/prefetch got anything to do with this software article? What is the need for it here, in this article?
Wikipedia does not give general random advice on various software. Unless anyone has a good reason why we should keep the section I would suggest removing it. FFMG (talk) 16:08, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[CCleaner#Old_Prefetch_Data|Old Prefetch Data]], what's the need for that section? 

message: I saw something at the top of the artyicle saying it may be deleted, dated November 2010. I vote to keep it, Its used by lots of people and has a good reputation. 92.29.112.73 (talk) 14:05, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Keep117.221.182.238 (talk) 12:47, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keep it 

message: I have a netbook running Windows XP with an Atom N435 and this "highly recommended" program named CCleaner crashed my system. I do not recommend it. --217.82.177.88 (talk) 08:31, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unusable on my machine 

message: The fact that this recieved 5/5 stars on C|net is completely irellevant.  Their reliability is really not what it was 5 years ago.  Some developers have even caught download.com (a sub site of C|Net) bundling spyware with their legitimate software. http://insecure.org/news/download-com-fiasco.html http://dottech.org/23420/cnet-crapware/.  They appear to give any software a good review that pays for it.  C|Net has also recently recinded it's "Anti-Spyware" policy.  Therefore, I would suggest that they be removed as a credible source of relieability of the software.
Secondly, this entry reads like an advertisement.  It cites only one refrence outside the developers website, and that is to C|net which as I mentioned above, appears to be paid to say good things about their advertisers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rtuite (talk • contribs) 21:10, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Ccleaner works in my experience, but it does not get rid of viruses and the like.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.246.216 (talk) 16:23, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that Cnet's rating no longer means anything. I've also heard quite some horror stories about Ccleaner messing up. So I think this article is one-sided.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.82.82 (talk) 08:33, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  C|Net is not a good gauge of reliability. 

message: On 12 March 2017 I added a section describing licensing, privacy and Piriform's protective policies on user data. It's visible in the article's View history tab. On 13 March 2017‎ Sbmeirow reviewed the article, deleted some content, but kept the licensing section. On 2 April 2017‎ Nthep did likewise. However on 10 May 2017‎ Train2104 deleted the licensing section with a comment that it was "a needless in-depth critical analysis." I don't think it was "critical analysis," it simply noted CCleaner's terms, without critique. "Needless" is in the eye of the beholder, but it's a brief section describing what CCleaner does. I think most readers understand that free and inexpensive software like CCleaner may use users' data, so description of what data are used and how uses are limited is quite important in understanding a product. I respect that Train2104 does not need the section, but Nthep and Sbmeirow apparently agreed with me it was appropriate. Numbersinstitute (talk) 17:10, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the section back in, since there were no objections here. Numbersinstitute (talk) 01:56, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  License description 

message: Should we report on the recent hack of CCleaner v. 5.33.6162 or CCleaner Cloud v. 1.07.3191, which requires an uninstall?Khandelwal, S. Warning: CCleaner Hacked to Distribute Malware; Over 2.3 Million Users Infected.  The Hacker News.  Monday, September 18, 2017
Since there had been a previous hack in 2009, perhaps we want a succinct section on CCleaner hacks.
The current - most recent - version is 5.34.6207.CCleaner download siteMaynardClark (talk) 03:37, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  2017 Hack