On September 12th, 2017, Piriform revealed in a blog post that CCleaner version and CCleaner Cloud version had been compromised. These versions of the software had been modified illegally before it was released to the public. The malware in question was collecting data such as the computer name, IP address, list of installed software, list of active software and list of network adapters from infected machines and transmitting this information to an unknown third party server in USA. Piriform worked with law enforcement officials to shut down the server and claimed that over 2.27 million users were affected. Of these 2.27 million users, 40 received a second-stage payload. Most of which seems to have been targeting technology giants like Samsung, Intel, and VMware. Piriform urged all CCleaner users to update to the new version, while themselves automatically updating all users of CCleaner Cloud. It appears that users with 32 bit Windows machines were specifically affected. None of the Android devices running the software were compromised. The company is moving the product build to a more secure and robust infrastructure to prevent any such future security incidents. ![]() Top CCleaner AlternativesĬCleaner does its job pretty well, but there are some other great products which do the same jobs pretty well. Some provide an easy to understand interface, while some are open source with dedicated communities backing up the development process. Either way, these products deserve a tryout. Here are CCleaner alternatives that you can go for. Privazer is a free PC cleaner and privacy tool from Goversoft. This tool has a special emphasis on privacy, clearly reflected by the name of the software.
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