Hello world! It’s me again with a question!

So, I remember back in the days of WinXP and Vista when we had the CCleaner or CCCleaner. I recently watched a YouTube video about some guy stating that it is so good and the best thing you can use today.

If I recall correctly, didn’t they get compromised like 7 times already and switched owners a couple of times?

Same guy talked about NordVPN being so cool and stuff but a friend of mine found some software of them on his server, I don’t remember what kind, probably some tracker or adware, and since the incident happened around the time everyone started to get sponsored by them, I don’t really trust VPNs.

  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
    331·
    1 year ago

    Don’t use CCleaner. It’s adware/bundleware/spyware, and it can damage your computer unless you know what you are doing (in which case you would use something else anyway).

    • FinancesDrone98@programming.devOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’m not going to use it. I used it once back in the days, but never since because it fucked up everything. It’s just, I paid for a cyber security course that’s all about how you can be safe, and then they throw NordVPN and CCleaner onto you in 2023 and I just… I’ve learned a lot about networking and security in this course and then that?

      • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
        2·
        1 year ago

        Scammy companies pay for sponsoring, and scammy creators accept that sponsoring. Pretty sad for a paid course.

        • FinancesDrone98@programming.devOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yes… the part of the course I am at right now is about encryption on windows. I just skipped how they expained encrypting your HDD with veracrypt… that’s sad… windows itself lets you encrypt stuff natively…

          Edit: now they encrypt it with bitlocker… like a whole 10 minutes of showing that…

    • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Know any decent alternatives? I use ccleaner occasionally only to quickly clear out unused and temporary files.

        • emptyother@programming.dev
          6·
          1 year ago

          Doesnt really clean up after much more than default windows apps and IE, unfortunately. (Theres an API for registering apps but I’ve never seen an app use it.) Doesnt clean up NVIDIA install files, doesnt clean up %localappdata%\Temp, or the Office install files at C:\temp. Not MS Edge cache, chromium cache, discord cache, adobe cache, nor system logs. The currently best, which I dont think is as good yet as CCleaner once was, is BleachBit. But its more trustworthy than CCleaner and it is open source.