![]() According to Martin Brinkmann's article CCleaner 5.36 Emergency Updater this new feature is likely based on the Avast Antivirus Emergency Updater introduced in 2012.Īccording to the AskVG article Customize and Control CCleaner Automatic Updates Settings, the Emergency Updater introduced in v5.36 can be disabled in v5.50 (released 2) by disabling Options | Updates | Important Updates (highly recommended). The old saying " closing the barn door after the horse has already bolted" comes to mind.ģ2-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 * Firefox ESR v52.4.0 * NS Premium v22.11.0.41 * MB Premium v3.2.2 * CCleaner Free Knowing that CCleaner has an Emergency Updater that can perform a forced update if a digitally-signed and white-listed installer ever plants another backdoor Trojan on my computer doesn't do much to restore my confidence in the product. It's critical that Avast/Piriform explain to customers how they will improve their acceptance testing and release management to ensure the " security incident in September" (as it's referred to in the v5.36 announcement ) doesn't happen again. ![]() ![]() CCleaner is a disk cleaner - not a real-time antivirus protecting my system from malware attacks - and users like myself who have already disabled the option to Automatically Check for Updates to CCleaner might not want CCUpdate.exe launching at boot-up and connecting to a remote server every day to check for "emergency" updates. I agree with c627627 that Piriform should add an option to the CCleaner settings to give users a simple way to permanently disable this new Emergency Updater. We are not complaining that you did so - but that you did not give us the *option* - just the option - to UNCHECK this at installation time and opt out of it.Īccording to Martin Brinkmann's article CCleaner 5.36 Emergency Updater this new feature is likely based on the Avast Antivirus Emergency Updater introduced in 2012. Please make a CHECKABLE option to opt in or out of this intrusive behavior. It doesn't matter what the reason is, inserting yourself to run with Windows with no warning or OPT OUT option, is the exact _opposite_ of what the purpose of CCleaner is. We have computer illiterate cousins and friends on whose computers we disable ALL updates because the moment something out of the ordinary happens like Firewalls intercepting CCleaner trying to phone home (!) guess who gets the call at 3am and has to drive 40 minutes to turn that off. No matter what the intent, people use computers differently. We have to come here, start threads, and only then be told that you did this and how you did it and how to disable it.Īn option, just an option at installation would keep *everyone* happy because they would have a *choice*. We are not complaining that you did so - but that you did not give us the *option* - just the option - to UNCHECK this at installation time and opt out of it. if you nevertheless inserted CCleaner exes into the Windows Task Scheduler itself to permanently run ! What is the purpose of giving us the option to disable automatic updates at installation.
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