Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33

Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by Cthulhu_ on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:29AM (#15275242)

CCleaner does sell a bit of FUD though - "your computer is slow, use us so it goes faster". I don't think "crap" is causing significant slowdowns anymore, maybe frees up some disk space but nothing that the OS can't do itself either.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by Moter8 on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:33AM (#15276799)

Deactivating that programs start on boot, maybe?

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by andrewjw on Monday September 18, 2017 @12:05PM (#15277054)

Just do that in the task manager

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by voltagex_ on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:29PM (#15280880)

Wasn't an option until Windows 10, I think. autoruns from SysInternals is my go-to.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by nikbackm on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:33AM (#15282042)

There's also "msconfig", present in Windows 7.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by Yizahi on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @04:50AM (#15282839)

And XP and 2000 and maybe earlier versions too

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by astura on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:49AM (#15285692)

msconfig has been around since at least XP.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by digi_owl on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:48PM (#15286937)

There are also a similar tool from Nirsoft.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by rhizome on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:36PM (#15278810)

How many times have we all noticed our computers running slow, only to find a bunch of tempfiles not touched by anything!

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