Thankyou for all the input guys. I didn't want to start an argumentation here.
I will look at that CCleaner.
A discussion without any disagreement is a lecture.
We learn from disagreeing and one side persuading the other.
As already stated I use macs.
I still have the 1998 Quadra running the 68040 chip.
Still works perfectly got it full of games and it gets used when kids come around.
It is the only machine that still reads floppies which is why I keep it as I have 1000's of floppies I never seem to find the time to commit to hard drives.
It is networked to the G4 running OS 9,5 because I have $ 18,000 worth of OS 9 softwear I have no intention of upgrading as I no longer write for magazines or produce reports for publication.
And of course the G5 I am takling to you lot on.
Both of the G's were bought 2nd hand as was the network switch and back up drives.
Like Boobala every year or so they go downstairs for an appointment with Dr compressor.
It is amazing just how much dust comes out and how much better they work after. Dust = insulation = heat and nothing electric likes heat.
As for being paranoid about security, no , just cautious. I worked hard for my money & I like to keep it.
I go riding with some real smart geeks two of them work for the government and both specialise in computer security .
Both run macs at home and both of them run Linux on their home macs. Enough or me.
They told me how to set up my computer to be difficult to hijack / hack and touch wood it has worked for 17 years.
They also showed me how to use mirrored drives to do no effort back ups which time machine in OS 10 made redundant, sort of.
I have been the point of contact for BSANSW of NSWinc for 25 years.
My email address is on computers all around the world and used to be on the three web sites we ran. So was available to all sorts of criminals.
I get almost no spam and have only had a computer system problem when I had a dispute with an ISP and they sent a routine down the wire to scramble my directory.
The new secretary runs a PC & android phone so I clean out around 500 spam emails a week off our server.
If people spent a little more time on computer security then the whole scamming industry, identity theft industry would not exist.
And I have nothing against CCCleaner. McAffie. Semantic ( Norton ) or any other company making a living out of computer security.
But relying on them blindly is like walking across an interstate wearing a fluro vest believing that the fluro vest will save you from being turned into dog food.
