CCleaner 5.46 was released yesterday and aims to fix all of the problems that led to the fiasco with the previous release of CCleaner 5.45. With this release, Piriform has added settings that allow ...

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans ...

According to its parent company Avast, more than 130 million people use the performance optimization software CCleaner. And today all of those people need to be sure they’ve installed the latest ...

A mere two months ago, Czech antivirus company Avast acquired Recuva, Speccy, and CCleaner developer Piriform for an undisclosed amount of money. Apparently, CCleaner in particular has been a tad of a ...

Avast published earlier today a post-mortem of the CCleaner malware incident, in the hopes to clarify some of the details surrounding the event that many of its users found troubling. Below is a ...

If you installed the popular Windows registry scanner and cookie cleaner CCleaner after Aug. 15, you’re likely running a decapitated botnet. If you installed the free version of CCleaner after Aug. 15 ...

First off, the good news: This malware wasn’t around long and is easy to fix. This was only available in a fairly narrow span of time, August 15th to September 12th, on the 32-bit versions of CCleaner ...

It turns out you can't even trust your own antivirus provider not to infect your computer with malware. Hackers managed to hijack a popular PC cleanup tool, CCleaner, meaning that anyone who ...

Users of the popular CCleaner program by Piriform are being advised to update the application after researchers at Cisco's Talos division discovered hackers had hidden malware inside. The contaminated ...