CCleaner

[Retired]

Dustin <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns9ED5DC7A3A416HHI2948AJD832@no:

> "Li'l Abner" <blvstk@dogpatch.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9ED4BB9D3C9ADbutter@wefb973cbe498:
>
>> 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? :-)
>>
>>
>>
>
> Ccleaner is a per account deal. IE: you have to login to each account
> and run it again. (Fun huh?) If you're using windows XP and down tho,
> you can snag Cleanup!; it'll do ALL of the accounts (be sure your
> logged in as administrator) in one fell swoop. Save you alot of time.
>
> Cleanup! may have been updated to support vista/windows7, but I have no
> experience using it on either of them.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just downloaded Cleanup! and will give it a
whirl on the next one!

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[Li'l Abner]

Retired <senile@nursinghome.nat> wrote in
news:Xns9ED63746E62Bbutter@wefb973cbe498:

> Dustin <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9ED5DC7A3A416HHI2948AJD832@no:
>
>> "Li'l Abner" <blvstk@dogpatch.com> wrote in
>> news:Xns9ED4BB9D3C9ADbutter@wefb973cbe498:
>>
>>> 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? :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ccleaner is a per account deal. IE: you have to login to each account
>> and run it again. (Fun huh?) If you're using windows XP and down tho,
>> you can snag Cleanup!; it'll do ALL of the accounts (be sure your
>> logged in as administrator) in one fell swoop. Save you alot of time.
>>
>> Cleanup! may have been updated to support vista/windows7, but I have
>> no experience using it on either of them.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I just downloaded Cleanup! and will give it
> a whirl on the next one!

I have a hard time figuring out who I am sometimes... :-)

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