Heads Up: CCleaner Infected
I know that CCleaner is popular on this forum. For almost a month it was compromised and installing malware. This is quite serious - it means that Piriform's development servers were probably compromi...
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ksg5000 wrote:Avast (owners of CCleaner) didn't mention anything about it until Cisco's security group Talos wrote about it. And now there are reports that Avast was first notified a month ago by another security company. They're becoming a case study on how not to handle a security incident.
When you update CCleaner they always provide a list of the reasons for the update - they mentioned fixing various minor bugs but conveniently left out any mention of the virus. Not sure I am going to re-install - credibility counts and they just lost some.
If I were an Avast user I'd uninstall that, too.
