Another alternative to this utility is "Cocktail" (shareware). Besides many other things Cocktail can do it also offers to remove "DS Store" files from a disk/volume/folder.

gaffer74: Yeah, that's what I meant. The program is probably innocent, but the developer didn't think the routine through completely and these kind of suspicions arises :)

@Ravon - did I mention that I LOVE the fact that it gets "caught" trying to contact the external site AFTER you have entered your system password into your mac? ;)
I'm sorry, but apart from someones "assurances", what PROOF do I have that someone somewehere is not logging my IP/username/PASSWORD TO MY MAC/usage details ?

This behaviour could be fixed by any update request occuring BEFORE passwords to your machine are entered on your keyboard.......there's simply no excuse....no other update request in ANY of the hundreds upon hundreds (thousands?) af mac apps I have EVER used does this. It's either malicious programming or incompetent programming....either way, it's getting binned :).

Put it another way: In general, ANY app that tries to contact external sites behind the scenes and without informing me AFTER I have entered confidential information into my mac tends to get trashed immediately

The program crashing is a separate issue to what I see as a possible security issue with this app.......which is a shame because I seem to remember an older version NOT doing this, so maybe a future update will "fix" it?
It's a moot-point either way because, as mentioned, I think BlueHarvest is a far better app and I now use that instead.

:-)

gaffer74: Huh? Sounds just like a poorly programmed routine. It uses ping as a port of the update to see if the host is alive. Blocking it with Little Snitch will most likely cause behavior that the developer didn't think of later on in the routine.

EDIT: have since stop using this "?malware??" and switched to blueharvest..... which does a much better job and nothing else "behind the scenes".

Great app for cleaning away those UNIX "dot" files.
HOWEVER, as mentioned elsewhere you HAVE TO turn internet OFF before use. You provide it with your administrator password, and then Little Snitch catches it sending a ping request to members.home.nl using ICMP.
Beware people - "ping" is among the oldest and most common methods used by hackers to locate systems prior to further exploitation, even though the dev would probably like you to think that it is a harmless info request, I wouldn't trust it with a bargepole.
Also, denying the ping request via Little Snitch results in ping hanging around in the background and effectively crashing the app, which won't relaunch until said ping is force quit from Activity Monitor. This raises my suspicions - Why would a simple update request "hang" the program if it isn't allowed to complete if it were only an innnocent "version request"? HIGHLY suspicous imo as NO OTHER app that submits update requests does this or has ever done this!
Turning off the internet effectively prevents the ping request in the first place and only the cleaner is run.....so TURN OFF airport, THEN launch FinderCleaner, Wait for it to do it's business and finish/shutdown, Then turn Airport back on.

Beautiful for removing the crap off of thumb drives, thus ending confusion from Windows users.