Ccleaner Being Flagged by Virus Total

CCleaner for Windows
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Hello,

I am an IT guy for the Dept. of Corrections in ND and Ccleaner is now being blocked by the state's 3rd party security company Palo Alto.

Just wanted to bring attention to this matter as I know for a fact Ccleaner is perfectly safe.

Also, I have downloaded Ccleaner from filehippo.com for years and now there is a fake site called thefilehippo. Could this site be the cause of recent false flags based on infected versions of Ccleaner from spoof/fake sites?

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If it's flagged by only a few, it's false positive; if it's flagged by Eset, and maybe one other I don't remember, then it's due to the bundled google or other offers (the slim build doesn't trigger that one)

VirusTotal should be looked upon as a majority wins when scanning known software. Honestly, imho, less than 4 is no worry, with more increasing the worry factor proportionally.