There's a bit in this thread to respond to - so please bear with me while I try to cover them all.ĬCleaner Browser can only be installed on your system in one of two ways:Ī user goes to (via one of a variety of methods), reads about CCleaner Browser, and clicks through to download and install.Ĭlicking on "Accept" in an installer or post-update offer.ĬCleaner and its automatic updates absolutely do not sideload anything. It's easy enough to reset your default browser and uninstall the CCleaner Browser. It can be annoying to get something you didn't want (I once got Chrome browser installed by not paying attention to what I was clicking). If it was something that happened regularly, without user intervention (mistake?), then we would see a lot more such reports.ĬCleaner does have a habit of offering things in pop-ups, (which often annoys some users). However when investigated it's usually been one of the above two causes, or likely that the user has clicked through something on a webpage (or a pop-up?) quickly without reading and accepted the Browser as an offer that way. (I've had a search and the last one I can find before yours was from January). We have had previous reports of the Browser 'installing itself'. This has been going on gradually for a couple of months to make sure that everyone who can be is up to date (Win XP/Vista have to stay on old versions): One thing that I will note is that if you installed CCleaner a year ago and hadn't been updating it then it WILL have force updated itself. I'd never say 100% sure of anything like that. (And uninstall the CCleaner browser if you don't want it). Just set whatever browser you normally use to be the default again. I've seen it happen a few times myself, and saw it again last Friday, I've told the staff that it's still happening occasionally. (You should click 'Decline', but of course you have to know about the bug). The standard installer shows you an 'offer' for another Piriform/Avast product with big blue 'Accept' and 'Decline' buttons, very occasionally the image for the offer doesn't load and you just see the two buttons - if you then click 'Accept' you will get whatever should have been showing as offered. The second way it can happen is an occasional bug in the standard installer. If you weren't paying attention you could think you were still downloading CCleaner and so click the download button there.
If you try to click on that arrow itself you could hit the advertising banner underneath it and get taken to the download page for the Browser. The first is from the CCleaner download page - when, in some browsers notably Firefox, you see an arrow 'tag' bouncing up and down in the top right corner saying 'Click here to install'. There are a couple of ways I know of that can happen without you realising that you have asked for the Browser to install. The Browser has probably been installed when you installed/re-installed the new CCleaner version.Īnd although many don't believe it, you probably asked for the browser by mistake not realising that it was being offered.
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