Hello world! It’s me again with a question!

So, I remember back in the days of WinXP and Vista when we had the CCleaner or CCCleaner. I recently watched a YouTube video about some guy stating that it is so good and the best thing you can use today.

If I recall correctly, didn’t they get compromised like 7 times already and switched owners a couple of times?

Same guy talked about NordVPN being so cool and stuff but a friend of mine found some software of them on his server, I don’t remember what kind, probably some tracker or adware, and since the incident happened around the time everyone started to get sponsored by them, I don’t really trust VPNs.

    • @ExtraMedicatedEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Know any decent alternatives? I use ccleaner occasionally only to quickly clear out unused and temporary files.

        • @[email protected]
          6•1 year ago

          Doesnt really clean up after much more than default windows apps and IE, unfortunately. (Theres an API for registering apps but I’ve never seen an app use it.) Doesnt clean up NVIDIA install files, doesnt clean up %localappdata%\Temp, or the Office install files at C:\temp. Not MS Edge cache, chromium cache, discord cache, adobe cache, nor system logs. The currently best, which I dont think is as good yet as CCleaner once was, is BleachBit. But its more trustworthy than CCleaner and it is open source.

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•1 year ago

      Yeah I’m not going to use it. I used it once back in the days, but never since because it fucked up everything. It’s just, I paid for a cyber security course that’s all about how you can be safe, and then they throw NordVPN and CCleaner onto you in 2023 and I just… I’ve learned a lot about networking and security in this course and then that?

        • @[email protected]OP
          1•1 year ago

          Yes… the part of the course I am at right now is about encryption on windows. I just skipped how they expained encrypting your HDD with veracrypt… that’s sad… windows itself lets you encrypt stuff natively…

          Edit: now they encrypt it with bitlocker… like a whole 10 minutes of showing that…

  • @[email protected]
    26•1 year ago

    There are legit VPN companies. Mullvad would be my choice if I didn’t already use Proton for their suite of software.

    Nord is shit-tier. CCleaner is shit-tier. Raid shadow legends is shit tier.

    Note which youtuber it is, and completely disregard anything they say.

    • JayEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      The way I see it is if a company has to spend a shit ton of money advertising, they’re probably not all that good to begin with.

      If a product is legitimately good people will be beating down their door.

      • @[email protected]
        4•1 year ago

        I have never actually seen a Proton ad. I only looked into them after hearing about them often on privacy oriented subs.

        • @[email protected]
          5•1 year ago

          Literally Edward Snowden mentioning it is the first time I heard of it, and after that, it was in the news a few times when big leaks happened, and the people who used Proton Mail never seemed to be the ones who got caught. That’s the only I’ve ever heard them being “advertised” - and that’s a pretty fucking good ad campaign: be one that people can rely on when their lives are at stake.

        • JayEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Same. I’ve been using proton for 6 or 7 years now.

        • qaz
          1•1 year ago

          I’ve seen a couple on the Linux Experiment’s page

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•1 year ago

      I hate to admit, but I played Raid shadow legends on day 1. it was shit-tier after 3 hours and thirsted for money.

      Needless to say, a YouTuber I saw during a YouTube-Trip said that they declined the raid shadow legends deal, despite it being 5 figures. Didn’t say the specific amount though.

    • @exussum
      9•1 year ago

      His rationale is that on a stock install, it removes entries, and that it might break some things. But he doesn’t show much more than stuff being removed. He doesn’t reason that windows may or may not clean them up itself, or explain which programs are crashing. It’s a 6 minute video you can probably Skip. There may be better videos with more evidence out there.

      • @TCB13English
        -1•1 year ago

        There may be better videos with more evidence out there.

        Sure link them so we can see…

        • @exussum
          5•1 year ago

          Proof is the burden of those who make the assertion. Is ccleaner useless? It has yet remained to be seen.

  • @[email protected]
    6•1 year ago

    Their update server was hacked 3 times already, if you MUST use it then use the portable version and remove it afterwards.