Lance <lhill@suc.edu> wrote in news:ipbum7$bl1$1@gist.usc.edu:

> Li'l Abner wrote the following on 4/27/2011 16:26:
>>
>> 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? :-)
>
> I do something similar for rooting out malware. In my experience I've
> found the following:
> - For temporary files, CCleaner only cleans out the current user

That's the one there that made it rather useless. Unless, of course I was
to run it in all four accounts. It's about as easy to just do it manually
with Windows Explorer. Once in a while a user will have their files set to
"private" and that has to be undone before you can access their temp files,
but that's usually the exception and not the rule.

> - As Rhonda says the default is to clean temp files older than 24
> hrs

That's one I wasn't aware of but I will check it in the future. Usually by
the time someone brings me their computer and I go to work on it, that 24
hours would be up anyway.

- If you've added any custom includes: Under Options/Include,
> check
> and see if "Include files and subfolders" is selected. Sometimes it'll
> be set to "Include files only".

Thanks for your input!

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