CCleaner has had a few issues over the years since Avast acquired the popular system cleaning program from Piriform back in 2017. CCleaner 5.91 uninstalled most of my software when I removed CCleaner ...

Security software giant Avast has acquired Piriform, the U.K.-based company behind CCleaner -- one of the most popular system cleaners on desktop and mobile. Founded out of London in 2004, Piriform is ...

Ever felt frustrated by CCleaner’s relative limited support for third-party apps? Did you know you can -- with a lot of care -- add your own programs to its cleaning database? Does that sound a bit ...

Reports are coming in that Piriform is forcing CCleaner to update to the latest 5.46 version even when users had configured the program to not perform automatic updates. To make matters worse, once ...

Facepalm: System cleaning app CCleaner has made the headlines quite a bit over the last few years, but most of it hasn't been good publicity. Keeping with that trend, one user recently found that ...

Tool now owned by security firm Avast was hacked via a supply chain attack, an increasingly common method of infection More than two million users of computer cleaning tool CCleaner installed a ...

Why it matters: Are you using the free version of CCleaner? If so, you'll probably notice that Windows Defender is now flagging the junk file remover as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) after ...