Malware found in official Ccleaner installers

shmu26

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The malware author had to wait for a fair amount of time for all people to get it and then push the malware download to all computers with the affected version. Ccleaner team identified the breach before that and took down the server and issued an update to the program.
That makes sense.
 

omidomi

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Holly f*** i was using exactly the 5.33 version till now and neither Bitdefender or Kaspersky AV flagged the Ccleaner as malware ?! :eek: Anyway uninstalled the software and needs to look for an alternative. I actually had a silent dislike towards Ccleaner for the past few months for no specific reasons despite I continued using it and my intuition and dislike towards the software was genuine!
I download this version and Kaspersky mark it as malware:
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