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 ...

System cleaner software that can delete data such as unnecessary registry items and temporary files in PCCCleaner"It became clear that the executable file containing malware was distributed on the ...

Popular Windows optimization utility CCleaner has a serious problem right now as a recent blog post by their VP of Products, Paul Yung reveals that hackers have compromised recent versions of CCleaner ...

In the grand annuls of software irony, apps that explicitly promise to make your computer more stable being used to secretly distribute malware are top of the list, especially when they happen to be ...

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 ...

Why it matters: Are you using the free version of CCleaner? If so, you'll probably notice that Windows Defender is now flagging the junk file remover as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) after ...

Windows only: One of our favorite PC cleansers CCleaner (which stands for "Crap Cleaner") saw an upgrade this week. Since the last time we mentioned CCleaner several new versions have come out; this ...

Microsoft’s Windows Defender antivirus software is—perhaps ironically—flagging CCleaner, a junk file remover, as a “Potentially Unwanted Application." The alerts occur when Windows Defender scans ...