TechSpce: In a Press Release today, the company Piriform announced that its popular program CCleaner has been downloaded a Billion times. CCleaner, formally Crap Cleaner, has been one of the most used optimization tools.
A big incident regarding web security and viruses has been showing its ugly head. This time by the hands of the well-known Disk Cleaner tool CCleaner. Version 5.33 of the CCleaner app offered for download between August 15 and September 12 was modified to include the Floxif malware, according to a report published by Cisco Talos.
The strange thing is that they let that happen for such a long time even this Avast clearly so the malware
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Yeah i havent bothered to update it for months. Malwarebytes keeping things under control.
I'm glad I haven't updated/used it for months myself. I'm considering uninstalling it, and perhaps installing a known clean version (Clean CCleaner--there's some irony) at a later date.
Statistics have shown that Clean Master was the most downloaded PC cleaning tool in the recent times, since after its launch. Many people are now claiming that it might give a tough competition to its contemporary tool the CCleaner. Originally designed for Android,
Android is Linux based operating system, therefore there is no need for a registry cleaner, but with the constant install and then removal of apps sometimes I feel there must be some sort of footprint left behind which needs deleting. By keeping this thing in mind, I started searching some CCleaner like cleaning apps for Android, as officially CCleaner is not available on any mobile platform.
i remember finding this app on one of those DVDs that come free with PC mags in the early 2000s. been using it since. recommended it to everyone thats asked me for help with pc maintenance.