Windows only: CCleaner Enhancer updates the popular system cleaning utility with support for cleaning up after 270 more applications, so you can keep your system even more crap free. Once you've ...

Users of Avast-owned security application CCleaner for Windows have been advised to update their software immediately, after researchers discovered criminal hackers had installed a backdoor in the ...

Microsoft is now detecting the popular CCleaner Windows optimization and Registry cleaner program as a potentially unwanted application (PUA) in Microsoft Defender. CCleaner is a junk file remover ...

In a statement, Microsoft suggested that as a PUA, CCleaner can install other software that is not developed by the same entity (Piriform Ltd.). “Our potentially unwanted application protection ...

CCleaner is a tremendously useful free application that can remove digital clutter and unwanted adware. Here's how to install and use it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

CCleaner, an application distributed by security company Avast that helps users perform routine maintenance on systems, has been compromised, according to a report Monday, allowing hackers to ...

To wit, a great many of the operating system features and applications most of us rely on have a real potential to compromise system security to some degree. CCleaner’s initial OS/browser analysis of ...

These popular Windows programs first hit the PC scene in the 1990s and early 2000s, and they're still very much around today.

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 ...

Microsoft’s Windows Defender antivirus software is—perhaps ironically—flagging CCleaner, a junk file remover, as a “Potentially Unwanted Application." The alerts occur when Windows ...

Microsoft’s Windows Defender antivirus software is—perhaps ironically—flagging CCleaner, a junk file remover, as a “Potentially Unwanted Application." The alerts occur when Windows ...