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Does CCleaner contain any spyware/adware?
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Valkery
, Jan 02 2006 12:25 AM
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 12:25 AM
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 12:28 AM
CCleaner is a spyware free program that works well.
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 01:31 PM
CCleaner is most definitely spyware-and-adware-free (I've been using it since it's inception and have checked it with everything I have here). It's very quick and absolutely great for cleaning out those pesky "caches" in your SunJava installation (if that's what you use) rather than having to do that separately.
I certainly wish that CCleaner would do more than simply "delete", though (that's all it does - deletes - it doesn't "erase" what it deletes.
If what you're most concerned with is the various index.dat files, however, I'd suggest Index.dat Suite ( http://support.it-ma...=index.datsuite ) as it does a far better job of finding (on all profiles) all the "index.dat" files on your computer - allows you examine the content of the ones found (and even print them out if you desire) - and also does some "cleanup" stuff of it's own (as well as automatically scheduling a disk defrag everytime the program runs) if you select those options.
And, yes - that one is "spyware-and-adware-free", also.
Alas, I.dS also just deletes - it doesn't "erase", either.
It can't be beat for index.dat stuff, though, and it's easy enough to prove - simply run whatever you're currently running for index.dat(s) discovery/deletion, let it do its' thing and (after a re-start) run I.dS. HTH Pete
I certainly wish that CCleaner would do more than simply "delete", though (that's all it does - deletes - it doesn't "erase" what it deletes.
If what you're most concerned with is the various index.dat files, however, I'd suggest Index.dat Suite ( http://support.it-ma...=index.datsuite ) as it does a far better job of finding (on all profiles) all the "index.dat" files on your computer - allows you examine the content of the ones found (and even print them out if you desire) - and also does some "cleanup" stuff of it's own (as well as automatically scheduling a disk defrag everytime the program runs) if you select those options.
And, yes - that one is "spyware-and-adware-free", also.
Alas, I.dS also just deletes - it doesn't "erase", either.
It can't be beat for index.dat stuff, though, and it's easy enough to prove - simply run whatever you're currently running for index.dat(s) discovery/deletion, let it do its' thing and (after a re-start) run I.dS. HTH Pete
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