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Avast's CCleaner Free Windows Application Infected With Malware (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the security-woes dept.

Reader Tinfoil writes: Cisco Talos announces that malware cleaning app, CCleaner, has been infected with malware for the past month. Version 5.33 of the CCleaner app offered for download between August 15 and September 12 was modified to include the Floxif malware, according to a report published by Cisco Talos a few minutes ago. Cisco Talos believes that a threat actor might have compromised Avast's supply chain and used its digital certificate to replace the legitimate CCleaner v5.33 app on its website with one that also contained the Floxif trojan. The company said more 2.27 million had downloaded the compromised version of CCleaner.

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  1. .. And the malware is by scsirob · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... AVAST AntiVirus! Who would have guessed that a great tool like CCleaner would be messed up by Avast in no time at all.

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    To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
  2. Re:Never had a problem until by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I felt the same way when I heard about Avast acquiring CCleaner. I refused to upgrade until I could find some reviews that said Avast hadn't ruined it with bloat like their anti-virus, and damn I'm glad I waited.

  3. Re:CCleaner wasn't malware all along? by CaptainDork · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not an anti-malware program.

    It's an optimizer.

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    It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
  4. "Malware cleaning app" by Mr.Intel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cisco Talos announces that malware cleaning app...

    Except it wasn't a malware cleaning app. Just a cleaning app. Maybe it happened to clean malware that got caught in the recycle bin, but that's about the extent of it. Of course, it ended up being a malware-infected cleaning app. Maybe that's what the OP meant??

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    Binary it is then.
  5. Re:CCleaner wasn't malware all along? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IT IS NOT ANTI-MALWARE, IT IS A DUPE FILE REMOVER, CACHE FILE CLEANER, UTILITY TOOL FOR REMOVING STUBBORN UNINSTALLERS THAT BROKE, ETC.

    You fucking idiots want to keep saying it's AV because you don't seem to know a god damn thing about it lol. "Oh it's a terrible security model" - On Windows? MORON.

    WHINY PETULANT SLASHDOT BITCHES WHO THINK THEY'RE EXPERTS WITHOUT READING A GOD DAMN THING, LOL