Denjiro15 Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 I recently learnt that CCleaner had been compromised, but is this still the case today? It has been set up in my computer ever since it was constructed, which was in June of last year. Is the app now secure and working properly? Should I keep it installed any longer? I appreciate you. 192.168.100.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted July 13, 2022 Moderators Share Posted July 13, 2022 That was 5 years ago back in 2017 and it was quickly shut down within days. So there is no way that your 1-year old computer could be affected. Unless you somehow got hold of a 5 year old compromised installer from somewhere, and then installed it, and as you can imagine you are not going to find one of those easily. Even if you did all that the old compromise would no longer work, there is nothing for it to do or connect to anymore. It didn't realy affect any home users, other than all the fuss at the time. The bad guys were not interested in CCleaner or it's customers. The breach was aimed at big, - Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, Sony, Google, big, - tech companies to try and steal some of their development secrets. The (probably Chinese government) bad guys had just used CCleaner as a vehicle to get to those big companies because CCleaner is so widely used, even at those big companies. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Keep getting logged out of websites? See this link: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/67601-saved-passwords/#comment-349999 Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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