Yeah I’m not going to use it. I used it once back in the days, but never since because it fucked up everything. It’s just, I paid for a cyber security course that’s all about how you can be safe, and then they throw NordVPN and CCleaner onto you in 2023 and I just… I’ve learned a lot about networking and security in this course and then that?
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cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 1 year ago
Don’t use CCleaner. It’s adware/bundleware/spyware, and it can damage your computer unless you know what you are doing (in which case you would use something else anyway).
FinancesDrone98@programming.dev 1 year ago
cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 1 year ago
Scammy companies pay for sponsoring, and scammy creators accept that sponsoring. Pretty sad for a paid course.
FinancesDrone98@programming.dev 1 year ago
Yes… the part of the course I am at right now is about encryption on windows. I just skipped how they expained encrypting your HDD with veracrypt… that’s sad… windows itself lets you encrypt stuff natively…
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Know any decent alternatives? I use ccleaner occasionally only to quickly clear out unused and temporary files.
cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 1 year ago
Windows file cleaner, it’s built-in. Search for “clean”.
emptyother@programming.dev 1 year ago
Doesnt really clean up after much more than default windows apps and IE, unfortunately. (Theres an API for registering apps but I’ve never seen an app use it.) Doesnt clean up NVIDIA install files, doesnt clean up
%localappdata%\Temp, or the Office install files atC:\temp. Not MS Edge cache, chromium cache, discord cache, adobe cache, nor system logs. The currently best, which I dont think is as good yet as CCleaner once was, is BleachBit. But its more trustworthy than CCleaner and it is open source.