This is wrong, because as I explained, it’s possible Piriform is better protected against such attacks by being part of Avast, than by staying independent. I knew it, knew it, I knew it : Avast is evil, it buys out Piriform, and now see what happens. If you think you need to ditch C-Cleaner because of that, then you need to ditch your computer as well. Including to open source software, which is not the silver bullet some people pretend it is. You can’t blame someone because he has just been hit by a nuclear bomb, unprovoked. Very few organisations can boast of being totally out of reach of such a high-level operation, and possibly none. This is wrong, because as far as we can figure right now, this was a worldwide, sophisticated and targeted operation mounted by Chinese cyber-war spooks, in order to, at least, steal secrets from major tech corporations, banks and governments. C-Cleaner has been compromised once, so it can’t be trusted anymore. Yes, and those concerns are justified, as opposed to other concerns voiced here on the lines of :ġ. What I can say is that experience showed and shows that several, many application development companies, once bought, deliver less good A different Martin I do feel sorry that Piriform was sold, I feel even worse when the buyer is Avast (forget a trial this is personal feeling free of documented accusations). Now, should further attacks be victorious over CCleaner, again and again, I’d start wondering about Piriform’s competence, but until then I use and will continue running this little gem called CCleaner, along with several other applications from the same company. I don’t know what happened exactly, I just know the problem was acknowledged and fixed, at least I hope. Sometimes there is a true, obvious lack in attacked companies’ security, sometimes the lack is as thin as a feather and finally : there is no 100% guaranty. What can be, what is always proclaimed is that the company is responsible even if not guilty and should have infrastructures blocking the attack vectors. Many sites have been, are targeted by attacks, it’s not a deliberate Avast/Piriform decision which would have led to these consequences, but one of those filthy Web attacks we are unfortunately facing more and more often. I won’t stop using CCleaner given the circumstances.
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