KCleaner new releases (Use Portable or Lite Installer)

Petrovic

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Most likely a false positive
No:D
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It adware)
ESET-NOD32: Win32/Somoto.Q
 

Rus Anca

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The problems for KCleaner fixed in new version 2.4.0.56:

0001063:KCleaner should delete FireFox Anti-Phishing-Database
0002635:Clean "CrashDump"
0002636:Clean "Logs"

Use KCleaner with care, at your own risk!
 
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Petrovic

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Original file name: kcleaner.exe
File size: 1423183
MD5: 635666b5b7c153eb711ac79c7dfeb6ca
SHA1: 84eeda4d6ee328c121c8abc4911a2c9cea6c8ce6
Threat: Adware.Somoto.107
Thank you for the cooperation.
Yours sincerely,
Virus Monitoring Service
Doctor Web Ltd.
:D
 

Jaspion

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KC Softwares is one of the few that makes it very clear that the default installer contains bundled offers, even noting which ones you may find. KC Softwares also makes it very easy to download the installer files that contain no bundled offers at all, so even fewer companies take a similar approach.

For comparison, Piriform has always provided a bundled installer as default, and gives the options to download other builds, but the version with no bundled offers usually only came out days afterwards, and now only the portable version is offered as an option to the default installer.

I don't see any reason why this developer should be given a hard time about this.
 
S

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Good news :)

Thanks !

What about Kcleaner itself ??

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Yesterday I could not prove ( the time difference , a daughter of 4 years ...)
Today I 've been looking and it seems a very powerful software , but very confusing.
It is only partially translated , which subtracts some point, since you have the security of being well choosing the options you want .

Another thing I would like is that give more information about what it has done.
There is no perfect tool for this

I like its interface, its speed and the expert mode option.

I do not like the translation and lack of information.

I think that the normal user did not know , do not understand, but I love having data.

Thanks for the program and follow closely .

Kind regards
 

jackuars

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It's a malware

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Like it's been said before, download only the portable versions of software from KC Softwares.

The installer versions contain a lot of adware, which can be called malware (Relevant Knowledge and Somoto). Sadly they make one of the best products in it's class like SuMo (software updater).

The developer should seriously re-think about which products they should include in it's installer to get revenue. It's fine that you include adware to get the revenue, most free dev's does it, but including malware?, that's a different story.

He's calling for a bad-name himself.
 

Ink

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KC Software is known to have their default installers bundled with Adware/PUP.

@Manzai If you looked at the Download page before installing anything you should have seen this.
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My recommendation would be to only use the Portable (.ZIP) download links.
 

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