Malware found in official Ccleaner installers

[frogboy]

You can add Auslogics,Wise care and money others to this list !!They install adware.Unless you go portable.

Sorry but can I ask how the portable version helps, it is because it does not install correct. Stupid question I guess. Sorry.

 

[Venustus]

Sorry but can I ask how the portable version helps, it is because it does not install correct. Stupid question I guess. Sorry.

Yes you are correct!!

 

[ispx]

This is me guessing

nevertheless, it was fun. you should try your hand at fiction

 

[shmu26]

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.

 

[Sunshine-boy]

What about Avast,

If you have ba...s go to the avast forum and ask

 

[frogboy]

Update from gHacks Technology News on CCleaner CCleaner compromised: better check your PC - gHacks Tech News

 

[Sunshine-boy]

CCleaner+CCEnhancer

Wise disk cleaner(free)+Process Lasso(free)

 

[Entreri]

Wow, it got me as well, and I am almost paranoid of malware. Hell, I even scanned that version with my AV before installing

I wonder if this was an inside job.

 

[frogboy]

And maybe Free cleaner as well. Privazer.

 

[shmu26]

What do you guys say about registry cleaning? Snake oil?

 

[Huchim]

What?? I don't know, I think I'm lucky, several weeks ago that I don't use Ccleaner or other software from Piriform.

 

[Venustus]

What do you guys say about registry cleaning? Snake oil?

Yes it is!!!

 

[paulderdash]

someone had access to the server

Hopefully no longer has access - unless it was an 'inside job'.

 

[ispx]

This is why I do not use CCleaner

nor do i, but look at the poll results in this thread. there are 25 users who will still use crappy cleaner

 

[Daljeet]

Zemana AM detect dns hijack in system

 

[lowdetection]

About Zemana AM what dns ares?
Zemana AM will detect hijack also if you use DNSCrypt with 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.2

 

[frogboy]

What do you guys say about registry cleaning? Snake oil?

Yes for sure the very best type of Snake Oil for sure.

 

[Daljeet]

About Zemana AM what dns ares?
Zemana AM will detect hijack also if you use DNSCrypt with 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.2

Yes, I'm using dnscrypt thanks

 

[omidomi]

Holly f*** i was using exactly the 5.33 version till now and neither Bitdefender or Kaspersky AV flagged the Ccleaner as malware ?! 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:

 

[lowdetection]

Registry cleaning should need people understand what is the registry and read many documents, this automatic tools try to don't do much wrong things, and surely they won't remove hidden registry values.