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 ...

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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 ...

Spread the loveWhen it comes to keeping your PC running smoothly, CCleaner has been a go-to utility for millions. It’s ...

CCleaner 5.46 was released yesterday and aims to fix all of the problems that led to the fiasco with the previous release of CCleaner 5.45. With this release, Piriform has added settings that allow ...

Update: On September 25, Avast confirmed that of the 18 companies targeted, a total of 40 computers were successfully infected with a secondary malware installation at the following companies: Samsung ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers broke into British company Piriform Ltd's free software that optimises computer performance last month, potentially allowing them to control the devices of millions ...

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 ...

It’s an accepted axiom that there’s an inverse relationship between security and convenience when it comes to computing. To wit, a great many of the operating system features and applications most of ...

The recent attack that resulted in 2.2 million users installing infected versions of a popular Windows system optimization tool might have been the work of a sophisticated cyberespionage group with a ...