Avast Cleanup Premium for Mac offers a handy array of utilities that are genuinely good at getting under the hood of your Mac and removing unwanted files, with some of the modules going beyond what’s ...

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 ...

Ever since it bought Piriform in July 2017, the CCleaner software has brought only headaches to Czech cybersecurity firm Avast. This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet/TechRepublic special feature, ...

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Czech cyber security firm Avast has pulled the latest version of its popular CCleaner utility for Windows, after it evoked a negative reaction due to a number of changes around privacy. CCleaner, a ...

Facepalm: Many users of popular system cleaning app, CCleaner, have complained that installing the software also installs the Avast anti-virus program without their permission. We have confirmed those ...

In August 2017, the installer for the popular clean-up tool CCleaner was tampered with by hackers to contain a malicious backdoor, and downloaded by 2.27 million customers worldwide. Now Czech ...