Did this affect you?
It was a previous update which did that. Most recent update 5.34 is supposed to be clean.
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And i was thinking yesterday about that i have to update my half a year old ccleaner lol
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I used it once on my previous desktop and it f'd up MS Word (trying endlessly to repair itself, causing a huge delay when opening docs). :/
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Luckily, it only affected the 32 bit edition so I'm safe. Still, I'm uninstalling it (and Speccy) and replacing with Bitbleach. Don't trust them anymore.. this just after they got bought by Avast, go figure.
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Yeah that's not true. I have the 64 bit and I was infected.
This news already has a thread
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/TXD6L/version-of-ccleaner-compromised
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I was fully expecting your source link to go to https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/TXD6L/ :P
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Still got 5.32 installed. But gonna start looking for alternatives.
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I woke up to find that my antivirus had tagged CCleaner as having a trojan. cry
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Good thing I rarely update my programs. After reading about all that I dowloaded the latest version that doesn't have the malware, but my antivirus notified me of a Google Toolbar in it and deleted it.
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see any kind of Piriform update > click the X unless its been 1y or 6m on tools like those ...
its reassuring to know though, on ones interwebs devices there is no safe place, there are so many god damn exploits (software based)
esp. windows but none's safe (except the few tinfoil linux distros maybe) if that wasn't enough - enjoy the built in cpu backdoors lol ...
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marketing opportunity to make a product called ccleanercleaner
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the latest update fixes and repairs this. no need to jump ship. i have not had any issue with cc over the years.
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thanks for the info, i will uninstall windows asap.
joking. in reality my old pc apparently broke down and doesnt boot. i guess i'm completely safe from infection.
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This news brought to you by the NSA who've compromised popular alternatives to Ccleaner and want people to download those instead.
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The NSA have access to our computers since the Internet was made publicly.
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And now they compromised it themselves https://betanews.com/2018/08/01/do-not-install-the-latest-version-of-ccleaner/
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Thanks for that, I strongly dislike Avast, way too pushy, and they are keen to destroy Ccleaners reputation too, what a bunch of ignoramuses must work there :/
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Never knew this program STILL existed… Never did anything good for me when it first released. Stopped using it shortly after without looking back.
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That too, just like anti-virus software they are mostly snake oil making you think they did something useful when they have a higher change of breaking stuff. They were useful maybe in the Win 9x days, but definitely not with 7-10 any more.
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Very true. I must say though, that I am now on some free 6 months trial (through Linus Tech Tips) of BitDefender Total Security. It seems fine, doesn't bog down the system and actually does its work. Even finds malicious trojans on websites, and no I am not talking about shady websites ;) . It has been the first time in YEARS for me to actually use anything else but the standard Windows security, which seems adequate enough.
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Last malware I managed to catch was on a totally unprotected XP VM that caught Ghost from somewhere. Before that some Amiga one when copying that floppy. Everything else any AV has ever found has been a false positive, so I guess I'm well enough protected with Common Sense Suite 2018. :) Also there is nothing shady about most porn :P
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Ghost...Ouch, good thing you were in VM though! Amiga.. I never thought about those era machines dealing with malicious people! Hahaha "Common Sense Suite 2018", too bad some people can't buy THAT though!
most... =P
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Just imagine being able to buy it for your (grand)parents instead of having to do support work. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus#Historical_development
The Creeper virus was first detected on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, in the early 1970s.
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Aaahh, if only. They could all safely browse pornsites all day long.. =D
Thank you for that informative piece. Maybe it was the SCA virus you had on your Amiga!
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And what to use now instead of this compromised again and again crap?
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Now it just tries to push their AV on you.
https://betanews.com/2018/08/30/ccleaner-improved-privacy/
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better to stay away from ccleaner.. the android version isn't that bad but for what concerns PCs isn't something I'd want on mine
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It seems that CCleaner, one of PCWorld’s recommendations for the best free software for new PCs, might not have been keeping your PC so clean after all. In an in-depth probe of the popular optimization and scrubbing software, Cisco Talos has discovered a malicious bit of code injected by hackers that could have affected more than 2 million users who downloaded the most recent update.
Source
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