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Thanks Imacri, i had a similar experience in 2017. After uninstalling the bad 5.33.x installer version, and cleaning out the registry of Floxif per instructions, i installed their clean update. Checked the registry again and Floxif hasn’t reappeared. Since it was years ago, subsequent scans with all those listed updated detectors have been clean, as various new malwares have targeted us. There’s a special place in hades for bad hackers.

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Thanks.

https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/ccleaner-malware
…This payload targeted approximately 20 of the largest tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel, and infected 40 computers.

Re Ccleaner.

Ccleaner was hacked

years ago

, purportedly by China’s Axiom group. The list of companies and governments not hacked is a short one. Do you refuse to use Cisco, MS, Intel, Samsung and the other companies listed in the full report?

I’ve scanned with MBAM, TrendMicro, Superantispyware, McAfee, WinDefender, Sophos and Norton ad naseum many times the last few years and come up clean with CCleaner installed. The malware would not have escaped detection unless all those were infected to ignore it. Is this a new conspiracy theory?

I’ll keep using CC until fresh evidence comes around, not the old news.

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Yes, i got a ‘no access’ for a few minutes and now it is fine again, good work.

How much money are you talking for that’shiney new thing’? Or will i be *aghast* at the cost of hosting on fast servers?

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Thanks for another good writeup Ascaris. Your technicalese (is that a word ha) explains it without fogging my brain. I enabled Enhanced Tracking Protection in the “Standard” mode if that is enough. Firefox 86 should still regard my whitelisted banking and some news and shopping sites without ‘breaking’ them, and appears to be another good privacy option from Mozilla.

I am using the FF ‘containers’ too, though still getting familiar with them.

Do you take donations?

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The forum is faster and feels ‘sprightly’ after the maintenance, and my user profile is right. Thankyou Admins.

Win10 Pro 20H2,backups with Macrium Reflect home edition

You can Opt Out from those addons during the Installation of Ccleaner. I don’t like bundled software either.

Then in Options > Settings, Uncheck starting automatically. Uncheck “Health Check” and check “Custom Clean” when opening Ccleaner.

Been using it from Windows 10 1703 through 20H2, before that on XP and it never caused a problem.
Here is a view on it by Microsoft.
Win32/PiriformBundler optouts
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=PUA%3AWin32%2FPiriformBundler
then click on “Technical Information” for particulars.

Piriform’s Speccy, recommended in this forum, also has an optOut from Google Chrome.

Ccleaner has the optouts to not include unwanted apps, including AVG. It would be better to have to opt in but this is the commercial, info-sharing, spying, push-to-buy world we’re in and the internet has magnified that. I like Ccleaner functions over its competitors, or doing all that manually. I buy a copy of CC Pro, and other apps like Macrium and Revo, occasionally to support their work.

Ccleaner Pro v5.77.

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No, a basic monitor with few options but that’s fine. If opened, it’s light on the resources at about 50MB RAM and “very low” power draw.

It does have an email notification for power events. Auto shutdown which I haven’t tested by offing the circuit breaker.

This CFP1000PFCLCD has taken the load several times during powerouts the past three years with no problem. I’ve been home to shut down the computer after a few minutes.

https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/software/power-panel-personal/powerpanel-personal-windows-222/

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No problem here with Cyberpower Power Panel Personal v2.2.2 with Win10 20H2 19042.746.

It is correctly monitoring a Cyberpower CFP1000PFCLCD  UPS, and did on Win10 2004 (i don’t remember the PPP version number used then.). I did nothing special for the install, just download and install.

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Saving a LibreWriter .odt file with Ransomeware protection enabled works here. The first time, i had to search for the saved odt files because my LibreOffice is installed on the faster C: SSD drive, but i save all the documents onto the larger D: drive.
(Though i see that you said documents “…saved to C:\Data\My Documents”. Just checking,)

My PDF saves from Firefox also save correctly to my D: drive.

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Fred Langa wrote:

LANGALIST Have you enabled Win10’s ransomware protection? By Fred Langa This free, optional feature is disabled by default but, if enabled, can help p
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Yes, Ransomware protection enabled for a month or two. It asked to allow a few Controlled Folder Access’es and that’s it. A little more protection with no overhead that i notice.

Regular Backups of everything.

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If your images work for you, they work for me. I just look at them, with admiration of course.

@Moonshine’s l&h-inspired photoshop was pretty good though, it brings a smile.

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That’s a laughoutloud thanks.

…L&H are xclnt too.

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I don’t come here for the artwork. Susan and Woody apparently like those images. If they want different ones they could reach out to many photoshopping friends.

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I got one vEthernet connection after enabling Hyper-V in Windows (after enabling Intel virtualization (VTx) in the BIOS (Asus).

I got a second vEthernet connection after enabling Windows Sandbox.

If i use the VPN it generates a third vEthernet connection.

No problems, slowdowns or gotcha’s with them enabled, they use few resources when not using them.

Windows Sandbox is fine for my limited use of it. I’ll get Sandboxie Plus by David Xanatos if i want more options.

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Thanks for the quick review of backeruppers on encrypted disks.

After ditching Acronis, Macrium Reflect has been my backup for years. In gratitude for usable backups and a painless experience i finally bought Reflect home edition last year.

 

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