CCleaner 5.36: Piriform released yesterday a new version of the popular Windows cleaning software.
The new version brings two major changes, namely one new one mode emergency update but also new default cleanup rules for some Windows applications.
CCleaner 5.36 is available for download from the official website of the company and comes as an update for CCleaner Professional users.
Those who use it free version they can download the portable version from the page which comes without adware.
Emergency Updater is a new feature of CCleaner that comes with its own executable file called CCUpdate.exe and a new scheduled task called CCleaner Updater.
The integration of the Emergency Updater into the updated app is likely a response to the recent hack on the company's infrastructure. The attackers managed to install malicious code in CCleaner, which had been circulating for about a month through the official by clicking here the company's.
Piriform has released a new version of the proletterwith a new digital signature, but was unable to distribute it to users of the free app due to the lack of the auto-update feature.
Piriform, which belongs to Avast from 2017, has used Avast's featured extraordinary briefing as a model for the development of the CCleaner Emergency Updater.
The CCleaner default cleaning rules also change.
The second major change to the new 5.36 version changes some of the cleaning preset rules. The default rules are those set when you run the program the first time.
Probably the biggest change is that the updated app will no longer delete browsing session data by default. The change affects Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera, Safari and Thunderbird.
The 5.36 version will no longer clear the Windows Defender scan history, Microsoft Office MRUs, most recently used documents, and other Windows Explorer MRU files.
