I used to run multiple temp cleaners/junk cleaners and occasionally used the registry cleaner in CCleaner (though I would check every entry it detected to verify that it was something that was either orphaned from an already uninstalled application or something that was safe to remove which is a very tedious process and I would NOT recommend anyone ever use such a tool unless they know what they are looking at in the results) but these days I don't mess with them.
A simple 'Allow once', 'Block once', 'Allow always', 'Block always' system for cookie handling would be awesome.Īs for everything else these tools address, such as temp files and so-called 'junk' entries in the registry (MRU keys and the like which are often targeted as some kind of privacy risk even though an attacker would need to get access to your registry to read them, and even then it would only list the most recently used executables/files which isn't very useful information under most conditions (do you really care if an attacker knows that you launched Steam recently or that you installed MS Office?), most of it either doesn't need to be deleted because it has no impact on performance or privacy, or there are already built-in tools to deal with them such as the included Disk Cleanup utility that ships with Windows.
All the ones I've seen require setting them up in advance to block/allow cookies for specific sites and for the user to magically know whether or not a specific cookie is required for a site to function. In fact, I might suggest Malwarebytes create a browser add-on with that functionality as I've never found one. Every major browser includes options to control/block cookies (though IE does it best in my opinion, giving the option to get a prompt when a site wants to create/save a cookie, allowing you to allow it, block it, always allow it, or always block it, similar to how a firewall works). If you don't want to be tracked by cookies you have to block them. This is why I never bought into the idea of detecting cookies in scans (and why I am glad that Malwarebytes never adopted a policy of targeting them/removing them). Cleaning up after the fact isn't going to protect you all that much. Web browsers and applications already do a ton of live call back to home base and report on all sorts of varying amounts of information as to what you're doing with your computer. If you're doing something illegal then sooner or later with or without these tools you're quite likely to get caught. I suppose it matters what you think you're going to achieve by these clean up tools. You'd need to decide yourself if you still want or believe you need the program Unless I'm mistaken, I'm not aware of Microsoft releasing the file structure of those files (though I suppose it's possible to reverse engineer them) so editing them is not supported from Microsoft either.ĬCleaner has had various complaints on the Web since Avast took them over. Opening and or editing the pagefile and hibernation file would also seem risky.
#Privazer vs slimcleaner free#
The best thing about Privazer is that it is free if you can’t afford to donate.Without a lot of analysis I'd say it seems risky. I think the yearly donation of $15 is worth it but the free version works just as good. For those of you who are running low on space Privazer will also search for files that are no longer needed and safely delete them for you if you choose that option as well. Privazer has never borked my system yet but for those of you who are paranoid I would recommend the basic user setting and let Privazer automatically use the safer settings on your system. I am able to wipe files and folders in Firefox and other browsers using the custom settings and can get Privazer to also wipe the pagefile.sys folder on shut down.
#Privazer vs slimcleaner software#
I really like how this software cleans my tracks. Keep in mind that I could have updated the software manually if I chose not to re donate. I was actually thinking about donating again so this didn’t really annoy me and I signed up for a $15 dollar a year plan through PayPal today.
The new version 4.0 had expired my donors version.