Moreover, CCleaner's privacy policy also says that it can share collected information with 3rd party companies. Though the information CCleaner gathers is entirely anonymous, users on various internet forums expressed their concerns about Avast data sharing practice, saying that the company ruined their favorite tool after acquiring it. When asked about it on its forum, CCleaner said heartbeat sends only "non-personal, absolutely non-identifiable usage information to improve CCleaner." In its changelog for CCleaner 5.45, Avast notes it "added more detailed reporting for bug fixes and product improvements."īesides this, CCleaner now also sends a heartbeat every 12 hours which reports up-to-date usage statistics to Avast, allowing the company to faster deliver bug fixes and product improvements.
What's concerning is that even after turning off the Active Monitoring feature from CCleaner's menus, it turns back ON automatically whenever users reboot their computer or close the software. These monitoring elements of CCleaner send user data such as anonymous system usage data back to the company's servers, as well as continuously scan systems to inform users when it comes across any junk or browser file, as first reported by Techdows. CCleaner 5.45 released in July-forces Active Monitoring and heartbeat features.CCleaner 5.44 released in June-adds pop-up advertisements.CCleaner 5.43 released in May-removes the option to opt out of data-sharing feature for users of the free software version.This time the system cleaning software is in headlines due to "monitoring and data collection" features Avast added in past few months to your favorite system optimizer application. The current non-compromised version at the time of this writing is. To determine the version of CCleaner you are currently running simply launch the application and check the version number on the app’s upper-left next to the logo.
In other words, to the best of our knowledge, we were able to disarm the threat before it was able to do any harm.” Check Your Version of CCleaner Users of CCleaner Cloud version have received an automatic update. In a blog post this morning, Piriform exec Paul Yung writes, “we’re moving all existing CCleaner v users to the latest version. Luckily, the company is taking the necessary steps to correct the situation. According to Avast, about 2.27 million people ran the affected software. The malware affects CCleaner version and CCleaner Cloud version. “The compromise could cause the transmission of non-sensitive data (computer name, IP address, list of installed software, list of active software, list of network adapters) to a 3rd party computer server in the USA,” Piriform says in a statement issued on Monday.
The malware allowed an infected system to be remotely controlled and collect data from your computer.
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