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[Octavia Leithoff]

HiI cant remove this app. Its always open. I kill the process it restarts itself within no time and therefore i cant put it into trash. It autostarts when i reboot my Mac eventho it is neither in the launchagents folder or in the normal auutostart list. It behaves like mal/spyware. Really not cool.

So killing process from Terminal does not work either. The Process from which it starts is launchd, which is crucial for the OS to work.

Edit: I found a solution via Terminal ccleaner can be removed from launchd. Type this into Terminal: launchctl remove com.piriform.CCleaner

Hi @SherlockThanks for the updates on this situation as I am delighted to hear that you were able to remove CCleaner via the terminal command, although I am terribly sorry for any trouble this may have caused to you.

Thanks for sharing this terminal trick

I was infuriated when I realised I couldn't remove CCleaner on my new Macbook because the process would not terminate and just start itself again, so I couldn't remove the software from the applications folder. I wanted to install version 1.18 again.

This is the definition of a malicious piece of software. What the hell happened. I really miss CC v1

If I do a clean reinstall of my OS, which I really need, would this solve the CCleaner uninstall issue? I am in my 90th year, so these things aren't as simple as they might be. With all the extra fuel cost increases, I really can't afford the luxury of CC.

I have a Dell Laptop dv6-2173 about circa 2010. I have lost all audio (both speakers and microphone). Perhaps this was due to an update of the drivers on this computer by CCleaner. To make matters worse, I recommended CCleaner to two buddies; one with the exact same laptop and another with a Lenevo of about 2015-16 circa. Shortly after activating CCleaner on their computers, the same thing happened to them. We are all running Windows 10 Home 64 bit version. Help! I need to get my speakers and microphone back on my Dell Laptop as well as stay friends with my two buddies. What do you recommend I (we) do?

You can use CCleaner's own built-in Driver rollback. If that doesn't work for you, go to the Device Manager in the Windows Control Panel, go to Sounds, video and game controllers, right-click the offending audio device and "Uninstall device"

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Tried Driver rollback, Restore and uninstall Sound Hardware and reinstall. Nothing worked. Haven't heard anything from CCleaner outside of this. My buddies are waiting until I find a solution before monkeying with their PCs. More help please!!!!

The support queue has not been particularly busy over the past couple of days, since the Boxing Day sale ended. The oldest paid customer email that has not yet had a personalised response from a support agent is around 2 hours old.

The only ticket that I could locate from a "Steve", "Steven" or "Stephen" over the past couple of days with a Driver Updater matter was raised at 16:19 GMT on Tuesday from a free user who, despite not having access to paid support, nevertheless received a response from 1st line support by 18:06 GMT the same day indicating that the customer's matter had been escalated to 2nd line support, who in turn emailed the customer at 16:26 Wednesday.

@Steve N: If you didn't receive an acknowledgement of your support request within a minute or two of sending it then either a) check your spam folder for any replies or b) check your sent items to check that you didn't put too many "c"s in sup...@ccleaner.com.

Hello - I am one of Steve's buddies referenced in the original post by Steve N. The audio issue mentioned OCCURRED DURING THE FREE TRIAL PERIOD of CCleaner, on two HP laptops (not Dell), and partially on one Lenovo laptop. The problem happened sometime 12\2\2021 and 12\17\2021 during the 2 or 3 times the application was run. Within a few days, all of our laptops started having issues - no audio on the HPs, and no microphone on the Lenovo. The day after that, at least two of us (maybe all three) started getting marketing pop-ups from CCleaner trying to get up to buy the product. I was leery about purchasing CCleaner since after running your tool just once or twice I had the first major issue with my HP laptop that I've ever experienced. While I was trying to figure out what happened to my laptop, and how to fix it, the trial period came to an end. It was almost as if the product caused the issue to make me HAVE to buy CCleaner to get the issue resolved (which is a form of entrapment, and not legal in the United States). Today, I decided to reach out to several IT Tech friends on social media about this issue, and learned one of them had issues too. One of those IT friends works at the National Security Administration in MD. He had other issues with your product, and just decided to uninstall CCleaner. He spent an hour on the phone with me today, shedding light on some potential fixes. For CCleaner to ignore a potential customer during (or just after) a trial period of your product because they are not a current paying customer is surely NOT going to ever convince that person to want to purchase your product, not good customer service (product tech support) and again, sure seems like entrapment. Right now, I'd just like to have my laptop back to what it was before I ever tried your product. Adding to my concern is this article I just came across today (from August, 2021)... Windows 10 is warning users not to install CCleaner TechRadar Apparently, the problems noted in the article, etc. appear to still be an issue, and not fixed. I also came across this article (from July, 2020)... Microsoft now detects CCleaner as a Potentially Unwanted Application (bleepingcomputer.com).

If you actually read the (now old) Bleepingcomputer article you will see that Microsoft themselves said that the block by Defender was about bundled offers in the installer and not about CCleaner itself.

(TechRadar were just reporting/repeating that Bleepingcomputer article).

Yes, I was aware that the one article was old (from July, 2020) but was trying to point out that the issue addressed in the article with Windows Defender and CCleaner is still happening for Windows 10 users. In our cases, the issue with lost audio occurred during the free trial of CCleaner - sometime between 12/2/2021, and 12/17/2021. I did read on the CCleaner social media pages that an update was released on 12/14/2021 to fix some problems. Not sure if that is related to the issues we've experienced, or not. We were just hoping to get some help on this forum, since this all happened during a free trial of CCleaner, and this experience is our first and only impression of CCleaner thus far.

Resum: You are a paid user of CC cleaner. You use the driver updater. Some basic functions are lost (no more audio + microphone + Printer driver removed). The recovery function does not help. CCleaner provides no further support. Thanks CCcleaner for destroying some essentials on my PC and not even trying to solve it.

For some reason cleaner does not launch on my Mac anymore. I'm running macOS Sonoma 14.0 (but it happened as well under macOS 13.x) and ccleaner 2.9

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the software several times but the problem persists.

I've used CCleaner Pro for many years w/o a problem!! This morning on my on my MacBook Air i up graded the software to "Sonoma 14.0" and CCleaner will not launch! Having tried all I know to do I deleted CCleaner........

After submitting the form you should get a ticket number and will also get an automatic email reply (check your email spam folder), if you have those then you are in the queue, so please have patience and someone will get to your request.

The latest release for CCleaner for Mac, version 2.09, was released just last week ( -mac/version-history) but the day before the MacOS 14 release. I would expect them to have a Sonoma-friendly release and/or patch in the near future.

Hi All,

We have just released an update to CCleaner Mac that should resolve this issue with MacOS Sonoma.

Please update to the latest version of CCleaner Mac, 2.9.187 and let me know if it resolves the issue for you.

I've been using free version of CCleaner for a few years now, and had no problems, and have also used Google Chrome as my browser for many years. But recently, I've noticed that when I click some links, they open up in this new CCleaner browser, which is most annoying, as I want to use chrome as my browser. Can you please explain how this happened, because I don't remember installing a new browser. Also, a website I'm using now for a paid educational course needs me to install a Chrome extension application, and it's going to be a real pain if I have to constantly swap between the two browsers to do this. In fact, I doubt that the chrome extension will even work, if it resides on Chrome, and the main website is open in CCleaner browser. How did I end up with CCleaner browser?

As for how you got it;

It was probably offered when you installed a previous version of CCleaner and you didn't untick (maybe didn't notice) the pre-ticked box, so it installed the browser as well.

Yes, I am having the same experience as Mike8. I have tried contacting CCleaner support online and get no response. I tried contacting Piriform and they put me on to some outfit that would like to charge me - at $66 p.m. should I fail to opt uut. (They've done this in the past).

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