I'm beginning to wonder if CCleaner is all it's cut out to be. My usual
plan of attack for most spyeare infested computers has been to boot into
Safe Mode, run CCleaner, and then Malwarebytes. Mt purpose in running
CCleaner first is so that MBam doesn't have to wade through a zillion
temporary files.

Yesterday I did just that on a 4 user computer, running CCleaner and MBam
from the most used account. CCleaner removed about a gig of files. When I
ran MBam,,, 55 minutes later it was still hacking away on one user's
Temporary Internet Files. It had found over 300 instances of MyWebSearch
and wasn't gaing so I aborted it, went into Windows Explorer, and
discovered that the IE5 folder for each of the other three users were cram
full of stuff. I deleted all of it, switched users and then found the same
to be true for the original acount, so I deleted those too.

Then I manually deleted all the temp files in each user's
Local Settings\Temp folders, and finally the contents of the Windows\Temp
folder.

Ran MBam again. It ran in less than 6 minutes. Found a bunch more
MyWebSearchs, one Trojan.Vundo, and one Adware.Hotbar.

So just exactly what is CCleaner supposed to do? :-)



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