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In January 2014 it had been the most popular software on FileHippo for more than a year, and had a 5-star editor's rating on download.zone and Softpedia. In 2016 Piriform announced 2 billion CCleaner downloads worldwide. It was awarded Editor's Choice Award in April 2009 by CNET. Critical reception ĬNET editors gave the application a rating of 5/5 stars, calling it a 'must-have tool'.
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Piriform released CCleaner for Android in 2014. Ī commercial Network Edition was also introduced. The Mac version graduated to the test stage on 30 January 2012. On 2 June 2011, Piriform announced a public beta test program for CCleaner for Mac. It remained a Windows-only utility until 2012. The browser is only available for Microsoft Windows.ĬCleaner was first launched in 2004 for Microsoft Windows. It is based on Google's free and open-source project Chromium. CCleaner Browser avoids advertising, avoids tracking, has built-in security against all kinds of malware, phishing, malicious downloads, and also avoids unwanted elements such as pop-ups or excessive browser cache.
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CCleaner Browser is included to optionally install in the CCleaner installer, but it can also be installed from its website. ĬCleaner also has its own web browser called CCleaner Browser.
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CCleaner can also automatically update installed programs and computer drivers. Since version 2.19, CCleaner can delete Windows System Restore points. CCleaner 2.27 and later can wipe the MFT free space of a drive, or the entire drive.ĬCleaner can uninstall programs or modify the list of programs that execute on startup.
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The program includes a registry cleaner to locate and correct problems in the Windows registry, such as missing references to shared DLLs, unused registration entries for file extensions, and missing references to application paths. ĬCleaner can delete potentially unwanted files left by certain programs, including Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Windows Media Player, eMule, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, McAfee, Adobe Flash Player, Sun Java, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and GIMP along with browsing history, cookies, recycle bin, memory dumps, file fragments, log files, system caches, application data, autocomplete form history, and various other data. An Android version was released in 2014.ĬCleaner has been reviewed by, TechRadar, PC Magazine, and TechRepublic. It was originally developed for Microsoft Windows only, but in 2012, a macOS version was released. It is one of the longest-established system cleaners, first launched in 2004. įreemium for home use commercial for use in organisations and institutions ĬCleaner ( / ˈ s iː k l iː n ər/, originally Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform (a company acquired by Avast in 2017), is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. Just like the last time, the hackers were looking to compromise CCleaner again.Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azeri (Latin), Belarusian, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese (Portugues do Brasil), Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan (Catala), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian (Hrvatski), Czech (Ceský), Danish, Dutch (Nederlands), English, Estonian (Eesti keel), Farsi, Finnish (Suomi), French (Français), Galician, Georgian, German (Deutsch), Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian (Magyar), Indonesian, Italian (Italiano), Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian (Lietuviu), Macedonian, Malaysian, Marathi, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish (Polski), Portuguese (Portugues), Romanian (Romana), Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Espanol), Swedish (Svenska), Tatar, Thai, Turkish (Türkçe), Turkmen, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. This time, the hackers breached Avast's own network, as the company migrated CCleaner to its infrastructure following the 2017 hack. The 2019 hackīut today, Avast disclosed a second hack. These computers would receive a second more potent malware strain that worked as a backdoor into the compromised networks.Īvast said that 2.27 million users received the tainted CCleaner update back in 2017 1,646,536 computers were infected with the first-stage Floxif trojan but only 40 computers received the more powerful backdoor.Īvast handled the 2017 breach with grace, never using the excuse that "Piriform was hacked, not us," and kept users updated on their investigation at every step - laying the ground for how many companies should handle security breaches.


Hackers were looking for computers installed on the networks of several major tech companies, such as Cisco, Microsoft, Google, NEC, and others.
