Keeping CCleaner Updates In CheckĬCleaner continues to gather downloads from users, recently reaching over 2.5 billion downloads since it was first created (note: it doesn't necessarily mean 2.5 billion users). Some users also haven’t been too happy with Avast’s general handling of Piriform’s handling, as the company has been attempting to better monetize the applications with more ads. Despite Piriform having been recently acquired by antivirus maker Avast (opens in new tab), it took another antivirus company to discover the backdoor and alert both Avast and the public about the issue.
The attackers were able to insert a backdoor in the latest version of CCleaner. Last year, CCleaner was also affected by a hack that compromised Piriform’s update servers. Piriform had to revert all installs of CCleaner 5.45 back to 5.44.
Just last month, Piriform had to retract a CCleaner update after many users were outraged with the app’s expansion of data monitoring and user tracking features. The now Avast-subsidiary and maker of CCleaner, Pirifom, has promised to give users more control and transparency over automatic updates in the future, but so far its track record on following these promises hasn’t been that good. Some of the reports date back to 2012 (opens in new tab), while the most recent ones are from earlier this spring (opens in new tab). This isn’t the first time CCleaner has updated itself without users’ permission, frustrating many users in the process.
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