1. Ccleaner Piriform

The Popular PC Maintenance Utility CCleaner has been hacked to spread Malware to millions of infected machines An attack on an incredibly popular computer maintenance software has been discovered to have been discovered by the researchers as reporting that “the legitimate signed version of CCleaner 5.33.. Also contained a multi-staged malware payload that rode on top of the installation of CCleaner.” The parent company of CCleaner, ( recently purchased by Avast ) has. What does this Malware Do?

Ccleaner Piriform

While the actual payload of the malware is not harmful in it’s own right, there are a significant number of things that it does do that one should be concerned about as this data could be used to attack your machine in the future. Piriforms has confirmed that the malware creates a unique identifier for each computer and collects the following: • Name of the computer • List of installed software, including Windows updates • List of running processes • MAC addresses of first three network adapters • Additional information whether the process is running with administrator privileges, whether it is a 64-bit system, etc. Please see for technical details. Was my machine compromised? Text edit for mac 10.6.8. The best way to tell if your machine was compromised is to check the version and build of the installation. This includes the following • Users running the 32-bit version of the application (not the 64-bit version) • Users running version 5.33.6162 of CCleaner or CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3191, released on August 15th, 2017 Many users who choose the automatic download version will likely be on the 64-bit version which is not currently affected. CCLeaner also does not automatically process updates, which is actually a piece of good news for many users of the se Since many users likely use the 64-bit version of the application, and CCleaner Free does not automatically update, which for a change is a good thing.