Malware has been detected within Piriform's CCleaner, a popular registry cleaner and space recovery tool. The malware-infected package had been distributed for nearly a month.

CCleaner also includes a registry scanner, startup manager, and Add/Remove Programs area to uninstall applications you don't use anymore. CCleaner 2.0 is a free download for Windows only.

As investigations continue about the backdoor that was planted in CCleaner, Avast said it has found that the actors behind the attack were planning to install a third round of malware on ...

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If you’re using a “registry cleaner” or “disk cleaner” application (CCleaner, Wise Cleaner and Auslogics are three popular examples), you should stop now. You’re wasting your money (up ...

Aside from finding and deletingbroken items in the Windows Registry, CCleaner Portable cleans outbits of Internet Explorer that can compromise your privacy (such asthe cache and cookies), deletes ...

CCleaner incident is clarified to enable a better understanding of the problem and also to help with potential prevention measures.

Users are now reporting that CCleaner is partially broken after upgrading to Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809). A fix is expected to land soon.