The new version of CCleaner is accused of deleting synchronized Firefox extension settings and other data

IT House August 3 Last week we reported that the optimization software CCleaner was detected as a potentially harmful application on Windows 10. and the latest public version of the software is now accused of deleting the synchronized Firefox extension settings and other data .

It is reported that when users use Firefox to synchronize, the data will be stored in the Profile directory, and the latest version of CCleaner will delete this content, causing users to reconfigure Firefox's extension settings every time after cleaning is completed. According to user reports, Windows Defender marks CCleaner as a potentially harmful program with a low alert level, but CCleaner has not been detected as a threat to the system, and users can still manually allow the application to run on the system.

IT’s family learned that if you want to solve the above problems without uninstalling CCleaner, you can try to go to CCleaner> Options> Excludes> Add> File through , and add the relevant files (Storage-sync-v2-sqlite-shm and Storage- sync-v2.sqlite-wal) is excluded from daily cleaning.