CCleaner updating itself against users’ wishes

It’s fair to say CCleaner has lost a lot of fans since Avast took over Piriform last year. We’ve seen problems with malware, bundled software, and pop-up ads, and then most recently Avast made a number of unwelcome privacy changes to the popular system cleaner, and removed the ability to quit the software. It eventually pulled the most recent problematic update, and released a replacement, CCleaner 5.46, without the privacy issues, but it turns out that this release has problems of its own. SEE ALSO: Avast is ruining CCleaner -- malware, bundled software, popup ads... what's next? Warning: DO NOT… [Continue Reading]