![]() Kudos to bjm_ for posting a link for Martin Brinkmann's article in the Norton Tech Outpost board and confirming that blocking CCleaner's outbound connections should prevent this annoying pop-up ad. I haven't tried this workaround, but my Norton Smart Firewall provides a simple way to prevent access of the CCleaner executable through my firewall at Settings | Firewall | Program Control: The one downside to this is that you will have to download new versions manually to install them, at least until the July 7 deadline is reached." If you disallow the program to connect to the Internet, for example with TinyWall or Windows Firewall Control, it seems that you won't get the advertising popup. What you can do is block CCleaner's Internet access. In fact, there is no option at all to prevent this kind of behavior. " There is no option in the program to disable the advertising popup. However, this persistent cookie and notification cannot be blocked or deleted and the stupid thing comes up every time I turn on my computer or restart it. As I responded in another thread, I don't mind a pop-up once or twice as I'm using a free product and CCleaner does have a right to try and make some money. Shame about the pop-ups on the portable version. Hello Imacri: I can live with a manual check for updates. ![]() If I want to check for updates with CCleaner Portable I just check manually by clicking the Check for Updates link the the bottom of the GUI.ģ2-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 * Firefox ESR v52.9.0 * Norton Security v22.14.2.13 * CCleaner Portable If you go to Options | Settings in CCleaner Portable you can still enable Inform me of updates to CCleaner, but if you are using the portable version then you are likely only plugging in your USB drive and running CCleaner Portable off your thumb drive when you want to run the occasional disk cleanup. ![]() Task: C:\Windows\Tasks\SDMsgUpdate (TE).job => C:\PROGRA~2\SMARTD~1\Messages\SDNotify.exeĬ:\Users\Kodha V Innovations\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI47162Ĭ:\Users\Kodha V Innovations\AppData\Local\GoogleĬ:\Users\Kodha V Innovations\Desktop\wings 2013 latest\5153\remote softwares\AA_v3 (1).Sadly, I just unzipped the CCleaner Portablev on a USB thumb drive and I'm seeing the same obtrusive pop-up ads in my system tray. Task: C:\Windows\Tasks\SDMsgUpdate (Local).job => C:\PROGRA~2\SMARTD~1\Messages\SDNotify.exe Task: C:\Windows\Tasks\GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA.job => C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe Task: C:\Windows\Tasks\GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore.job => C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe Quote GroupPolicy: Group Policy on Chrome detected DefaultScope value is missing.
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