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The makers of CCleaner added a critical update feature to CCleaner 5.36 which may override the user's update preferences. Some users may wonder how CCleaner managed to upgrade itself even if the update checking in the program is disabled.

What makes the whole auto-updating even worse for users is that privacy settings are reverted to their default values during the upgrade according to Bleeping Computer. Piriform confirmed the forced updating of users to the new version and reasoned that it was necessary to 'meet legal requirements and give users more autonomy and transparency over their privacy settings'.īleeping Computer ran a test and confirmed that old versions of the program were updated to CCleaner 5.46 automatically even when the 'automatically check for updates to CCleaner' option is unchecked during setup. So what was causing this change? Well I was using an older version of CCleaner, for good reasons, and despite the fact it was still showing as that yesterday when I booted it this morning what do I find? I'll tell you what: it had been updated, against my express wishes in the settings to the latest version: 5.46.whatever.

#CCLEANER NEWS INSTALL#

A user on the official Piriform forum reported on Septemthat CCleaner had updated itself automatically ignoring the user's configuration which was set to not check for or install updates.

Integration made it near impossible for users to disable the collecting and Piriform/Avast had to retract the version eventually because the issue boiled over.ĬCleaner 5.46 was released at the end of August 2018 but things have not calmed down a lot since the release. It culminated in the release of CCleaner 5.45 in August that collected more Telemetry. Avast Free Antivirus in the past, recent updates introduced advertising popups and privacy options that free users could not really configure. While there has been some bundling with third-party offers, e.g.

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