A little sad about CCleaner. It was one of those things where reversers and DFIR people were screaming not to use it and getting mocked.
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How many people use CCleaner because an IT mentor told them to because an IT mentor told them to?
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You're running a thing you have no support agreement or mitigating corporate license for that has intimate system access and is a black box.
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I don't mean to personally insult people who love CCleaner - it has nearly a religious following which is frustrating to me.
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Replying to @hacks4pancakes
Reimage, don't clean, if you want to get things back online. That's always been my theory.
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That's the root of it - it's either not needed at all, or the system really needs to be backed up and reimaged.
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Replying to @hacks4pancakes @GossiTheDog
Large part of the problem is that "reimaging" is not made accessible to non-enterprise-IT ppl (personal/home or small office users).
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User preferences/personalization and system configuration/state are all garbled together in one huge registry plus random scattered files.
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Unless you're a Windows expert who knows how to organize and manage all that junk, reinstall + recreate preferred environment takes WEEKS.
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