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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 896855" data-attributes="member: 78686">So here&#039;s the detection from last night.[ATTACH]244820[/ATTACH]Just now I downloaded the Ccleaner installer again and this time it&#039;s not detected by WD anymore. Because the Ccleaner team made changes to their installer. Nowhere in the initial installer wizard, bundled software installation is mentioned anymore. It&#039;s clean and all options are related to Ccleaner only.[ATTACH]244814[/ATTACH][ATTACH]244815[/ATTACH][ATTACH]244816[/ATTACH]Before it used to be like this:[ATTACH]244819[/ATTACH]Now after the change, the mention of bundled software comes in the second step and clearly asks the user whether they want to install that particular software or not. Just, like I said in one of my previous comment, this behavior is acceptable. As long the user is asked about it, it&#039;s ok. [ATTACH]244817[/ATTACH]I checked the digital signature timestamp of the latest installer. It is from last night. So Ccleaner made this change last night after the news of detection went public earlier.[ATTACH]244818[/ATTACH]I have to say Bravo Microsoft <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👏" title="Clapping hands&nbsp; &nbsp; :clap:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f44f.png" data-shortname=":clap:" /> They decided it&#039;s time to be aggressive against such practice and in no time Ccleaner/Avast have learned their lesson. Hopefully this will make Avast to fix this in their Avast AV installer too.Good job Microsoft <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up&nbsp; &nbsp; :thumbsup:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" data-shortname=":thumbsup:" />But there are many other software who does this and they aren&#039;t gonna change their behavior anytime soon. Eg: PotPlayer: [ATTACH]244821[/ATTACH]One of the reason being PUP protection not enabled by default. If Microsoft do that all of them will be forced to make changes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 896855, member: 78686"] So here's the detection from last night. [ATTACH]244820[/ATTACH] Just now I downloaded the Ccleaner installer again and this time it's not detected by WD anymore. Because the Ccleaner team made changes to their installer. Nowhere in the initial installer wizard, bundled software installation is mentioned anymore. It's clean and all options are related to Ccleaner only. [ATTACH]244814[/ATTACH][ATTACH]244815[/ATTACH][ATTACH]244816[/ATTACH] Before it used to be like this: [ATTACH]244819[/ATTACH] Now after the change, the mention of bundled software comes in the second step and clearly asks the user whether they want to install that particular software or not. Just, like I said in one of my previous comment, this behavior is acceptable. As long the user is asked about it, it's ok. [ATTACH]244817[/ATTACH] I checked the digital signature timestamp of the latest installer. It is from last night. So Ccleaner made this change last night after the news of detection went public earlier. [ATTACH]244818[/ATTACH] I have to say Bravo Microsoft 👏 They decided it's time to be aggressive against such practice and in no time Ccleaner/Avast have learned their lesson. Hopefully this will make Avast to fix this in their Avast AV installer too. Good job Microsoft 👍 But there are many other software who does this and they aren't gonna change their behavior anytime soon. Eg: PotPlayer: [ATTACH]244821[/ATTACH] One of the reason being PUP protection not enabled by default. If Microsoft do that all of them will be forced to make changes. [/QUOTE]

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