Bid them all goodbye, folks.Piriform’s CCleaner, a free PC cleaning app with 130 million users around the world, has been discovered to contain malware. Piriform has products other than CCleaner Piriform is also the developer/owner of Defraggler, Recuva, Speccy, etc. This discussion has focused on CCleaner, but what Avast has purchased is not just CCleaner, it's Piriform. On a side note, ewido was not the first but it certainly was the last product for which I purchased a so-called "lifetime license." The same scenario will likely be repeated with CCleaner and Avast. So, ewido, a highly valued product that was compatible with all antivirus products, was essentially gone. That lasted for a short time and then AVG, which had renamed ewido to AVG Anti-Malware, bundled it into AVG AntiVirus, which meant the only way you could get the anti-malware program was to drop your current antivirus and purchase the AVG bundle. At the height of its popularity, it was purchased by AVG AntiVirus who made the usual promises about continuing to support the product they had purchased, keeping its developers on, etc. It was a great tool that was highly favored by malware removal helpers as well the public. Some of you may remember a wonderful anti-malware tool named ewido. This situation with Avast and CCleaner brings feelings of deja vu. Posts: 793 Joined: March 20th, 2015, 6:41 pm Location: Chicago Plus it will show you ads for their partner sites even if the cost is the same as the site you're on. Just because it's showing ads for "trusted" sites doesn't make it not adware. That's basically the definition of adware. "The purpose of this feature is to help you find the best offers among participating trusted shops and to notify you about cheaper offers by displaying a small bar on the top of your browser." *They claim that it's not, but as Avast describes it: See: Registry Cleaners: Digital Snake Oil on the Malwarebytes Unpacked blog.
Not even the one that is built into CCleaner. Note about registry cleaners: they are dangerous and you shouldn't use them. I'm worried Avast is going to roll the good functionality even deeper into the unnecessary and dangerous "performance" junk that's bundled with their antivirus. CCleaner has always been a very good temporary file cleaner but the registry cleaner has always made me wary. A default installation brings along a VPN, registry cleaner/system "optimizer", and an actual adware browser extension*. I don't really like what Avast has been doing recently. Interesting but I'm not really thrilled about it.
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