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CCleaner says hackers stole users' personal data during MOVEit mass-hack | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Man that program has gone down the fucking drain. First bundling in bloatware, now this?

What's a good alternative?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Bleachbit or Glary Utilities

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I replaced it with BleachBit after their auto-updater led to a situation where everyone was advised to wipe Windows.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/how-to/security/ccleaner-malware-incident-what-you-need-to-know-and-how-to-remove/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Goddamn it gets worse. As soon as I get home from work I'll give a BleachBit a go. Thanks all!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Ohhh thank you for suggesting these, I had been considering swapping for CCleaner for weeks now but didn't know of a good alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Glary Utilities has been my go to for years. First time I've ever seen anyone else mention it!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What’s a good alternative?

I haven't used any such tool for almost a decade probably and I don't think there's a need to nowadays. Occasionally I run the Windows Disk Cleanup utility to get rid of temp files and Windows Update installation files and that's about it. Cleaning the registry is bullshit anyway that does more harm than good (doesn't speed up anything certainly).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Bleachbit is the open-source community maintained successor

[–] Immersive_Matthew -1 points 9 months ago

nuke and pave is the only real alternative. I do it every 3-4 months and it really only takes me a couple of hours to be back in business with all my apps and settings.