Moderators Nergal Posted April 17, 2015 Moderators Share Posted April 17, 2015 I saw a bunch of Ask stuff on one of my user accounts. Now I know why. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20150417-column.html (Woo hoo beat hazelnut to a story ) ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted April 17, 2015 Moderators Share Posted April 17, 2015 Use Adwcleaner and then watch what you accept when installing stuff in future https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/disable_offers.xml By the way they've been doing Ask for quite a while now. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted April 17, 2015 Author Moderators Share Posted April 17, 2015 I didn't accept a java update, either an "helpful" user did or secunia is doing something I no longer want them to...I don't even know why java is installed on my studio computer LOL ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eL_PuSHeR Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 I use Java and I haven't seen (nor I want) Ask in ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted April 17, 2015 Moderators Share Posted April 17, 2015 Helps to have Ask.com blockers in the HOSTS file. Some of the adware (verging on malware in some of our minds) is very easily thwarted by blocking them via the HOSTS file - then they can't download anything. And Java, uninstall it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted April 17, 2015 Moderators Share Posted April 17, 2015 Also don't forget that Ask is one of the search providers installed by default with Chrome browser. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Secunia trashed my computer so badly that I had to restore it from a Partition Image backup. I DID NOT AUTHORIZE SECUNIA TO MAKE ANY CHANGES. I only allowed a preliminary scan to DISPLAY what was oui of date. Unfortunately Secunia took it upon themselves to FIRST WITHOUT ANY WARNING to update / install JAVA to facilitate their scan. I never allowed Secunia to have any contact with my computer after that fiasco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted April 18, 2015 Author Moderators Share Posted April 18, 2015 Um, sorry alan I disagree. It is very easy to set PSI to inform of updates only, so I'm gonna call user error on you. I have my personal computer set that way. But I'm more hands off at my recording studio; so I consciously set it to auto updates (especially as it only updates for security based updates). PSI cleans all the installers and repackage them without bundle. In this case it was a user who, it seems, I wrong-headedly imbued with admin install privileges, that installed a java based program, uninstalled the program but it left java and ask plus java set to autoupdate silently (a no no as I let PSI do it) ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trium Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Also don't forget that Ask is one of the search providers installed by default with Chrome browser. ei caramba im a lucky guy with ff Versions of CCleaner Cloud; Introduction Ccleaner Cloud; Ccleaner-->System-Requirements; Ccleaner FAQ´s; Ccleaner builds; Scheduling Ccleaner Free Es ist möglich, keine Fehler zu machen und dennoch zu verlieren. Das ist kein Zeichen von Schwäche. Das ist das Leben -> "Picard" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 In my particular case, which was probably 6 years ago, I subsequently discovered that in the Seconia small print the "latest" version of JAVA fixed a major Java defect, and that Seconia DEPENDED upon JAVA to facilitate their scan for all the OTHER software that might have been installed on my system. SECONIA REFUSED to scan my system with my existing version of JAVA, and deliberately chose to MODIFY MY SYSTEM REGARDLESS of my selection of INFORM ONLY. Seconia SHOULD HAVE WARNED ME and given me the opportunity to make a fresh partition image BEFORE they trashed my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted April 18, 2015 Author Moderators Share Posted April 18, 2015 Yeah psi has come a long way from that version and it has no dependencies ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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