Avast is ruining CCleaner -- malware, bundled software, popup ads... what's next?

Version 5.47 pulled due to a bug. Another Avast/Piriform blunder.
What A Joke.......
Hey guys there is a bug here and we're hotfixing it now. v5.46 has been restored in the meantime.
Quote From (Stephen Piriform)

 

I can't remember the last time I used CCleaner. The only thing that really was nice was the registry cleaner but I'm sure there are other programs out there now that do that job more efficiently and I don't have to worry about ads or background monitoring. I've since then learned alternate way to clean out temp files and empty folders that I no longer need.

 

@Ultra Male Ready to test out the brand new CCleaner Portable 5.47.6716 ?

 

What the hell! Maybe this isn't new but the last thing I want from a system cleaner is the ability to identify my credit card info so that it can supposedly "clean" it. I am the farthest you can get from being a "regulation" type person but all these tech and software companies need to have their asses reigned in. From Microsoft, to Google, to Piriform, and every other tech company, the ability to monitor, make changes and take and sell our info really needs to be stopped along with forced updates and a thousand other things they get away with.

And Apple too since now they are assigning trust scores to iPhone users based on the phone calls they make and emails they send and receive.

 

Among many other things, yes.

 

Avast Premier user here. So annoying that even in the paid version you get bugged with "privacy" alerts.
If you look in detail to it its the typically nonsense; like people can see your IP on the internet (ad for their vpn) or you are leaving traces (ad for their ccleaner rip off module)

 

I've moved to Revo Uninstaller [free version] for file/registry cleaning. Ironically, I haven't uninstalled CCleaner because it's a convenient way to prohibit a bunch of autostarts ...and then autoruns64 stops CCleaner's.