#CCLEANER MALWARE 64 BIT UPDATE#
Perhaps they just took it upon themselves to update C.Cleaner on peoples pc’s
#CCLEANER MALWARE 64 BIT PC#
To the best of my knowledge, I don’t have any Avast on my pc apart from C.Cleaner so I don’t understand how an Avast anti virus update could affect my version of C.Cleaner.
No multi-page installation required, no third-party offers, no hidden tasks quietly added to Windows Task Scheduler, & no automatic forced version updates. (Win 圆4 users can delete the 32-bit CCleaner executable supplied inside the folder.) Simply extract the downloaded ZIP file, scan it for possible malware, & run either the 32-bit or 64-bit executable inside the folder when you feel ready to do so.
#CCLEANER MALWARE 64 BIT INSTALL#
It is possible to avoid the Avast offer (as well as the hassle of having to install CCleaner during every version upgrade) by using the self-contained portable build. You would see the Avast Antivirus offer, if the below registry value does not exist: The Avast Free Antivirus (opt-out) offer that appears during CCleaner installation is not tied to CCleaner setting itself to keep the Avast browser cookie. I do know that even without installing Avast, the latest versions of CCleaner do set a browser cookie for Avast which you must remove from the cookies to keep. Now 5.42 they giving their frinedly help – “Where appropriate, CCleaner Free may recommend improvements to your system’s antivirus protection” AKA AVAST My regret is not keeping screen shots of VirusTotal results.
I don’t recall specifically but believe this was days rather than hours. All the popular (in my experience) AV companies EXCEPT Microsoft were listed as detecting the CCleaner infection by the time I gave up. Eventually, “I have better things to do” came to mind. The detecting AV companies grew in number.
I kept checking, ostensibly to check how long it took Microsoft to report the problem. One of the detecting AV companies was NOT my regular AV so I kept checking the VirusTotal link and saw the numbers grow. VirusTotal reported three AV companies detected a problem (obviously, one of those was Malwarebytes). Due to Malwarebytes report, I again referred the file to VirusTotal. Nothing alarming was reported.īy coincidence, I ran a Malwarebytes scan early on the day the infection started to be detected. As is my habit, I ran the update installer through VirusTotal before installing. The current non-compromised version at the time of this writing is.
To determine the version of CCleaner you are currently running simply launch the application and check the version number on the app’s upper-left next to the logo. In other words, to the best of our knowledge, we were able to disarm the threat before it was able to do any harm.” Check Your Version of CCleaner Users of CCleaner Cloud version have received an automatic update. In a blog post this morning, Piriform exec Paul Yung writes, “we’re moving all existing CCleaner v users to the latest version. Luckily, the company is taking the necessary steps to correct the situation. According to Avast, about 2.27 million people ran the affected software. The malware affects CCleaner version and CCleaner Cloud version. “The compromise could cause the transmission of non-sensitive data (computer name, IP address, list of installed software, list of active software, list of network adapters) to a 3rd party computer server in the USA,” Piriform says in a statement issued on Monday. The malware allowed an infected system to be remotely controlled and collect data from your computer.
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