"Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <rhondaleakirk@earthling.net> wrote in
news:ipbjdl$480$1@news.albasani.net:

> Li'l Abner wrote:
>> 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? :-)
>
> Why don't you try clicking "Options", "Advanced" and then unticking
> the box (ticked by default) that says "Only delete files in Windows
> Temp folders older than 24 hours."

That's one I wasn't aware of. Thanks for pointing it out to me!

> Let me know if that helps.

OK. Will do. Next time. :-)
As Lance pointed out, CCleaner does not clean the other user accounts. I
think that's what was hurting me the most. You would think to be thorough
it would clean ALL the temp files in ALL the accounts.



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