- Apr 28, 2015
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- Jul 13, 2014
- 766
This incident underlines many things.
What were all those advanced next gen tecnologies, super effective behavioral blocking, big datas and advanced heuristics tech doing??
Ok,you don't expect your antivirus,antimalware or security suite to detect and know exactly if a server is compromised.But locally, no suspicious behaviors have been detected for almost 4 weeks by any major security company??No connections to some suspicious IPs have been detected?
What were all those advanced next gen tecnologies, super effective behavioral blocking, big datas and advanced heuristics tech doing??
Ok,you don't expect your antivirus,antimalware or security suite to detect and know exactly if a server is compromised.But locally, no suspicious behaviors have been detected for almost 4 weeks by any major security company??No connections to some suspicious IPs have been detected?
- Apr 28, 2015
- 271
According to Avast, Morphisec discovered this breach. Don't know anything about their tech though ...
- Jun 9, 2013
- 6,720
More on the storyline. Avast Clarifies Details Surrounding CCleaner Malware Incident
Well, for malware testing my instinct would flag every thing as virus just like Avast Hardened mode.wow
- Jan 28, 2016
- 529
Not a very satisfactory response in my view. For starters a simple apology would have been nice. Instead we just get "We regret the inconvenience experienced by Piriform’s customers".
And I like the way Avast says the incident was the result of an illegal act, as if that is going to deter those involved in such activties, and somehow absolves Avast of blame.
- Sep 22, 2014
- 1,767
BTW: Win 10 OS have some nice feature to clean temp files and recycle bin...
- Jun 22, 2014
- 864
Hat`s off to the Cisco Talos team for being first off the mark with this debacle.
Thankfully I take time before updating any progam that`s working as it should so I`ll probably still continue usng ccleaner occasionally.But therein is the problem if you don`t update you`re vunerable to recently discovered exploits and if you do you`re vunerable to a compromised update.
I suppose this could happen to any piece of software on your system including AV`s so I`ll give Avast a chance to clear up this mess and hopefully they`ve learn`t something from it
No damage done...hopefully.
Regards Eck.
Thankfully I take time before updating any progam that`s working as it should so I`ll probably still continue usng ccleaner occasionally.But therein is the problem if you don`t update you`re vunerable to recently discovered exploits and if you do you`re vunerable to a compromised update.
I suppose this could happen to any piece of software on your system including AV`s so I`ll give Avast a chance to clear up this mess and hopefully they`ve learn`t something from it
No damage done...hopefully.
Regards Eck
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- Apr 28, 2015
- 271
Actually these guys were the first to detect: Morphisec Discovers CCleaner Backdoor Saving Millions of Avast Users according to Avast.Hat`s off to the Cisco Talos team for being first off the mark with this debacle.
Product was under hijacking even before being acquired by avast.Also they were in no way using Avast's IT infrastructure.So for measures avast is moving piriform IT stuff into avast.
- Apr 1, 2017
- 1,782
Pls, close this topic because it's painful.
Lets pass:notworthy:
Lets pass:notworthy:
- Jul 22, 2014
- 2,525
The "funny" thing is Thalos recommends restoring your system to a state before August 15, 2017 from a backup if you were affected or to reinstall Windows completely....Avast says it's not needed.
CCleaner Was Hacked: What You Need to Know
Avast
CCleaner and installing avast with out permission...
CCleaner Was Hacked: What You Need to Know
Avast
CCleaner and installing avast with out permission...
- Jan 29, 2017
- 1,201
Interesting, Avast acquires CCleaner and then trashes it.
- Jun 10, 2017
- 248
That was the standard procedure at the last company I worked for. If a corporate PC got malware, it was wiped and a fresh new image installed. No chances taken on a compromised machine, or spending the time to clean it up.
What you do with your own PC is your own business, but it is always recommended to wipe it. If your PC is low priority and you can tolerate some risk of not being 100% sure it is clean, then that is up to you.
But if you get in the habit of taking regular image backups, it only takes a few minutes to do a complete restore.
- Jul 22, 2014
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I understand why they said it but still think it's "funny"...
If they really know what the MW did and could do Avast is right (user still need to scan their PC to make sure nothing else was downloaded and to change their passwords, best from another PC).
If not, Avast is giving "risky" advices.
Restoring an older image or a fresh Windows install is safer, restoring a backup (with MBR) is safer...
- Jun 22, 2014
- 864
I stand fully corrected @paulderdash, in which case,
Hat`s off to the Cisco Talos team for being second off the mark with this debacle.
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Regards Eck
Even Win10 offers a built-in cleaning tool
- Mar 30, 2014
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