Crap Cleaner and Spybot

[Nanoman]

Today I installed the latest updates with the update manager of Spybot.


However, upon running Crap Cleaner, I noticed several entries that got removed.

Many contained Spybot/index/ logs type files.

Is Crap Cleaner removing my Spybot updated detections?


:eek:

[md usa spybot fan]

Please clarify what you mean by:


Spybot/index/ logs type files.
Can you cite specific examples?

[Zenobia]

The only thing I see ccleaner offering to remove when I run it are logs(checks,fixes,resident and update downloads logs),and statistics.ini.I don't see anything to indicate it's removing updated detections.

If you would like crap cleaner not to remove these things,open ccleaner,
click Applications,scroll down to Utilities,then remove the checkmark from
beside Spybot Search and Destroy.

[Nanoman]

It will say

Spybot/index/logs/ 893 bytes. maybe 6 entries in one scan not all with that many bytes removed.

The recovery folder on Spybot was empty

[Zenobia]

I ran ccleaner and it didn't touch anything in Spybot's recovery on mine.

Spybot/index/logs/ 893 bytes <-That's odd.
My ccleaner log looks like this(XP)-

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Logs\Checks.060401-1936.log 1.36KB
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Logs\Checks.060401-1946.txt 3.44KB
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Logs\Fixes.060401-1949.txt 3.34KB
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Statistics.ini 810 bytes

What version of ccleaner do you have?Mine's version 1.28.277

[Nanoman]

1.27

Well I thought it unusual to remove things from Spybot.

Since I don't have anything in the recovery, what is it removing I wonder?

For example in your scans?

Is it simply removing usage tracks recorded in the software?

[Zenobia]

In my scans,it's removing Spybot's logs,and the statistics.ini.
For example,ccleaner removed some of my fixes logs.These are logs I can
look at,and be able to tell what Spybot fixed(along with other info).The fixes log shows in ccleaner like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spybot - Search & Destroy\Logs\Fixes.060401-1949.txt 3.34KB
Resident.log shows a log of teatimer's activity,etc.
Statistics.ini shows what was found and removed by Spybot,under Info & License->statistics(you only see that when Spybot is in advanced mode.)
Normally,I uncheck Spybot Search And Destroy in ccleaner,I like to keep my
Spybot logs around for awhile.If you'd like ccleaner not to remove Spybot
things,you can do this:
Open ccleaner,click Applications,scroll down to Utilities,then remove the checkmark from beside Spybot Search and Destroy.

To check and make sure Spybot will put stuff into the recovery section,you
could open Spybot,click mode->advanced mode,then Settings->Settings,
scroll down to Main Settings,and make sure there's a check beside
'Create backups of fixed spyware problems for easy recovery.',and
'Create backups of fixed usuage tracks for easy recovery.'
You can return Spybot to default mode,by clicking mode(up top),then default
mode.
I don't think ccleaner 1.27 removes Spybot's recovery files,though I'm not 100% certain.
(If Spybot found tracking cookies on your computer,these don't get put into Spybot's recovery.)