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notexecutive, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

do not use it. it’s bad.

tordenflesk, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

BleacBit+winapp2ool

Paradachshund,

What do each of those do?

supernicepojo, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

Ccleaner has been a malware for at least 5 years.

NiaTheCat, (edited ) in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?
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  • Paradachshund,

    Awesome thanks! You’re the third vote I’ve seen for bleachbit so I’ll definitely look into that one.

    sirfancy,

    Can you elaborate on how it’s a virus? I hear this a lot but haven’t heard any substantial truth aside from referring to a privacy policy that is identical to 90% of every other website anyone else uses.

    RedEyeFlightControl,
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    Piriform was a very trustworthy tool developer until it was surreptitiously bought by a chinese company and immediately turned into a virus for the next release. It instantly lost its trust and has been garbage since that day.

    Marsey_Enjoyer,

    Piriform was a very trustworthy tool developer until it was surreptitiously bought by a chinese company and immediately turned into a virus for the next release

    Avast isn’t a Chinese company

    ridethisbike, (edited )

    Article about it for those interested… According to this it does not still contain malware, but it has been the target of multiple attacks through the years that has in turn compromised many PC’s. The attack mentioned in this article was suspected to be a state sponsored attack by China, not sure about the others.

    usa.kaspersky.com/…/ccleaner-malware

    Lemminary,

    Look at that, very different from “it’s a vahrus!!1!”

    intensely_human, in Lesbians of lemmy, how do you introduce your SO to other people without getting them confused for just a friend?

    “This person is my lover Karen”

    Just introduce them as your partner. Lesbians are so habitually entrenched in hiding their sexuality.

    I have so many pairs of “friends” come in appliance shopping. Gay men come in, it’s “This is my husband Mike”. Gay women come in and it’s like “This is my friend Paula. She helps me pick out appliances and definitely doesn’t live with me”.

    I don’t pry, because I’m just selling appliances. But it’s pretty obvious.

    Lennnny,
    @Lennnny@lemmy.world avatar

    Robert Dyas?

    Steve, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

    No, it starts up and pesters you even if you disable it as a startup service. Malware.

    balderdash9, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

    This is a fucking public service announcement

    SkaveRat, in What companies have made your blacklist?

    McD.

    20 or so years ago I had several bad experiences back to back in different restaurants, and I just decided to not go there anymore.

    And EA. Fuck them

    Pyr_Pressure,

    Also EA, you’re right. Fuck em.

    Pyr_Pressure,

    That’s a good one, it’s made my grey list so far and I will only go there on my company’s dollar if it’s the only option…

    It seems that every time I go, unless it’s just for a coffee, they either get my order wrong or they need me to park in the lot for 10 minutes while they get it ready.

    Last time they gave me an extra McMuffin and charged me for it, despite only ordering the one.

    Pyr_Pressure, in What companies have made your blacklist?

    My top company that I will never give another dollar to is Adobe, as they forced me into a 1 year “contract” with a $200 cancellation fee after forgetting to cancel their one month discounted trial in time.

    Other companies for myself include Dell, HP, and Canadian Tire.

    FIST_FILLET,

    the adobe cancellation fee is the most evil and greedy shit i’ve ever witnessed in software. they SCALE it so you pay the exact amount you would have paid if you just remained subscribed for the full year, except when you pay that money through a cancellation you immediately lose your license to run their software. they literally make you pay the remaining subscription period while taking away your access to the fucking product

    surewhynotlem,

    Obligatory “fuck Adobe”. My proudest moment last year was cutting our company’s Acrobat licenses by 70% and taking about a million bucks out of their greedy little pockets.

    Nitro Pro is great anyway. It does the job.

    Pyr_Pressure,

    I love you. Best I could do was cancel my $20 / month. I’ll match you in about 4000 years.

    slazer2au,

    It’s not about matching, it’s about preventing Adobe from getting money. :P

    otter,

    What are some good alternatives to each Adobe product?

    Someone on here mentioned Affinity for the Photoshop/design world

    Nitro & PDFxchange for the PDF side?

    Pyr_Pressure,

    I switched to PDFgear for my PDF editing needs, free and open source.

    Does a decent job, although I miss being able to have PDF opened in tabs instead of individual windows.

    7Sea_Sailor,

    Am I crazy? I cannot find that open source for PDFgear. Yes it’s free, but they need to have some income if they can offer an AI integration. What’s the catch?

    surewhynotlem,

    Nitro is shaping up to be a good alternative for enterprise needs. Not sure about the rest. They seem to have a strangle hold on the creative suite in the enterprise.

    late_night,
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    Also Inkscape for Illustrator

    idunnololz,
    @idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

    What happened at Canadian tire? :o

    Pyr_Pressure,

    Oh man it was so long ago.

    I think the final straw was trying to buy tire rims. Went online and it says it was in stock and my local store, went to it and they said it was out of stock despite the website saying it was. Sent me to the next store over 20 minutes away saying they had some, went there and they told me that they didn’t have any either despite the internal system saying they did.

    Wasted an hour and a bunch of gas trying to get those rims. Not a huge deal but if a company can’t tell what they have and when they have it and prefer to waste my time I don’t care to give them my business.

    Plus they only stock like 3 items per store for every flyer deal, hoping you’ll buy shit just because you’re there already. Same with Walmart which is also on my blacklist.

    davidisgreat,

    I used to work at a company that provided tech support for a few Canadian Tires. They don’t hire nearly enough staff. They try to make up for it with high amounts of automation. Frequently people will come and steal from them because there aren’t enough staff to stop that. This causes the inventory system to think there is more stock than there is. Because the reduced staff, they don’t frequently manually check their stock so it can be quite some time before it becomes aparent.

    MigratingtoLemmy,

    I will pirate Adobe’s products without any lapse in judgement on my part, I assure you

    _danny,

    If you complain enough, adobe will let you cancel for free. But they are also on my blacklist, for making me work to cancel a service for free. Absolutely ridiculous.

    0x4E4F, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

    Haven’t tried BleachBit on Windows. Does it clean driver installation logs, compress browser databases, MRU explorer cache, opd prefetch files, Windows updates, etc.?

    Deceptichum, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?
    @Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

    You just dunk the hard drives in some bleach. All the bytes will be wiped away.

    Rocky60, in What companies have made your blacklist?

    Comcast (Xfinity) We couldn’t get a good signal in our house and were told the cable was old and needed to be upgraded. They wouldn’t cover the upgrade. A local fiber optic company came through and we dumped them.

    ShittyBeatlesFCPres,

    I was the first person I knew who cut the cord because Comcast was so obnoxious. They made a deal with my landlord so we could only use Comcast and then they charged $30 more a month than the apartment complex across the way. The FCC (or whichever regulator it was) made that illegal at some point. But competitors slow-walked competing for years. I’m sure it was a backroom deal since AT&T had similar deals with other buildings.

    I still needed internet so I angrily paid for that but I sailed the high seas for years just to avoid giving Comcast one extra nickel more than was necessary.

    Poayjay, in What companies have made your blacklist?

    There’s so many. Oreo changed their cream filling and you can see they only fill the rows by like 2/3 now Ebay (I honestly don’t know anyone who hasn’t had problems on the platform how are they still in business?) When I was a teen, my manager at dominoes fired me after I caught him stealing my tips. I wont even eat free dominoes

    Lath,

    Ebay was long sold to chinese ownership. They're just another version of Wish now.

    assembly,

    I am never buying Oreo or Ritz crackers as they are made by Mondelo which is on the Russian sponsor list for the invasion of Ukraine.

    I_Miss_Daniel, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

    Patch cleaner is also handy, to clean out that windows installer folder.

    www.homedev.com.au/Free/PatchCleaner

    Paradachshund,

    Oh this sounds nice. Thanks!

    0x4E4F, in What companies have made your blacklist?

    Every single one… unfortunately, you just have to live in this world 🤷.

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