It's not.. I miss the old days.. NOD32, RAV, F-Prot, etc. AV's should stick to being AV's. Someday an AV company will buy a clue and go back to being an AV company and drop this bloated suite nonsense. I look forward to those days.
Avast acquires Piriform (CCleaner)
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It's not.. I miss the old days.. NOD32, RAV, F-Prot, etc. AV's should stick to being AV's. Someday an AV company will buy a clue and go back to being an AV company and drop this bloated suite nonsense. I look forward to those days.
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good bye
(CCleaner)
for i knew you well ,
(CCleaner)
for i knew you well ,
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I can see avast integrating ccleaner into their paid packages, and leaving ccleaner as a standalone for those who use their free tier
I hope Avast doesn't ship as adware in Piriform CCleaner because that would make it bigger and I will stick to current version or replace it with BleachBit.
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less than likely. it will probably be the other way around.
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Since Avast had acquired AVG and made sure to keep the AVG standalone, the same is going to happen to CCleaner too. I'd like to ask fellow MT users to stop feeling like it's the end of the world... 
CCleaner will continue to be developed because Avast has more cash reserves to pay for the programmers.
CCleaner will continue to be developed because Avast has more cash reserves to pay for the programmers.
- Apr 1, 2017
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free alternative for ccleaner==wise disk cleaner+wise game booster+argente registry cleaner!
trust me this is more effective than CCleaner (paid version)
trust me this is more effective than CCleaner (paid version)
I think I remember reading a couple years ago Avast/AVG owned or were connected in some way to a huge data mining firm. I forgot the name of it, maybe someone else remembers? I know Avira's love affair with Mixpanel turned me off immediately.
Bleachbit, Glary, Kerish Doctor, all sufficient if not better than Ccleaner IMO.
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- Aug 30, 2015
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I'm gonna be amused looking forward I trust Avast will keep CCleaner free, I wish I knew.
- Dec 29, 2014
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It's a good move imo. Avast has the cloud database to make CCleaner more powerful and the user base to make it work. Avast also bought Recuva and other titles if they bought the company. That's something else to think about. Who knows? Maybe they had some other unreleased code Avast likes too.
90%+ sure CCleaner free will exist almost the same as now but with a more powerful cloud element of the pay program that can detect malware too and upload questionable files. o/c the most powerful version of CCleaner will surely be for sale in Avast a-v. Makes sense. Kind of doubt avast will use the CCleaner name in the a-v tho...
As for the discussion of money...hey Piriform devs got paid here and probably large $$$. They kept their free titles out there for what 10+ years? imo, they deserve them after all the good their free programs have done.
90%+ sure CCleaner free will exist almost the same as now but with a more powerful cloud element of the pay program that can detect malware too and upload questionable files. o/c the most powerful version of CCleaner will surely be for sale in Avast a-v. Makes sense. Kind of doubt avast will use the CCleaner name in the a-v tho...
As for the discussion of money...hey Piriform devs got paid here and probably large $$$. They kept their free titles out there for what 10+ years? imo, they deserve them after all the good their free programs have done.
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Blah! $$$$$$$ & €€€€€€ etc.... More money more power & dominion! That's the way world stand.
I personally like an a old-school guy like the days when Antivirus was a ANTIVIRUS and nothing less nothing more, do it simple, that's the way you do it better. Focus you PRIMARY function and make it more effective etc...
...But, when you has nothing better to do and has money more you can spend...maybe then this is the way , we bought all the damn utilities and put them in our solution and then you PRIMARY function doesn't get that much attention because you have to tweak all the freaking utilities on toaster to toothbrush! DAMMIT!
Oh well... whatever....I do it my OWN way
I personally like an a old-school guy like the days when Antivirus was a ANTIVIRUS and nothing less nothing more, do it simple, that's the way you do it better. Focus you PRIMARY function and make it more effective etc...
...But, when you has nothing better to do and has money more you can spend...maybe then this is the way , we bought all the damn utilities and put them in our solution and then you PRIMARY function doesn't get that much attention because you have to tweak all the freaking utilities on toaster to toothbrush! DAMMIT!
Oh well... whatever....I do it my OWN way
- Aug 28, 2015
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I'm gonna be amused looking forward I trust Avast will keep CCleaner free, I wish I knew.
I just hope they don't mess with it!
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Me either and for some reason I don't like this.
I do have a key for Privacy Eraser as well as Ccleaner, I may dump Ccleaner in the trash.
To be fair I will wait and see just what exactly changes before I act on this unsettling news.
I have used Ccleaner for years so any changes will be evident to me pretty quickly.
Wow, wth Piriform ?
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It is hard to say whether it is good news.
This will be later in use.
I hope he does not hesitate.
This will be later in use.
I hope he does not hesitate.
- Jan 16, 2017
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When they release new version, it usually takes them few days or a week to put slim version there. I really hope thats the case this time as well.
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