04-12-2020 , 09:17 PM
CCleaner - Piriform Company:
CCleaner was launched in 2004 by founders Guy Saner and Lindsey Whelan.
Piriform Ltd is a British software company based in London, owned since 2017 by Avast. It has long developed cleaning and optimization software for Microsoft Windows, and later macOS and Android operating systems. It is named after the term for failure, "gone pear-shaped."
Piriform tools include CCleaner, Defraggler, Recuva and Speccy.
On 22 September 2015, Piriform launched CCleaner Cloud, to maintain computers remotely.
In July 2017 the company was acquired by Avast.
In September 2017, researchers discovered that CCleaner was compromised by hackers who inserted a backdoor into the software, enabling remote access of infected machines
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CCleaner was launched in 2004 by founders Guy Saner and Lindsey Whelan.
Piriform Ltd is a British software company based in London, owned since 2017 by Avast. It has long developed cleaning and optimization software for Microsoft Windows, and later macOS and Android operating systems. It is named after the term for failure, "gone pear-shaped."
Piriform tools include CCleaner, Defraggler, Recuva and Speccy.
On 22 September 2015, Piriform launched CCleaner Cloud, to maintain computers remotely.
In July 2017 the company was acquired by Avast.
In September 2017, researchers discovered that CCleaner was compromised by hackers who inserted a backdoor into the software, enabling remote access of infected machines
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