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Old 11-08-2017, 20:41
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Hi,

Avast acquired Piriform, maker of CCleaner, but recently CCleaner was infected by malware and distributed to 2.3 million users. It was a two-stage backdoor that allows a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system.

hxxps://www.piriform.com/news/blog/2017/9/18/security-notification-for-ccleaner-v5336162-and-ccleaner-cloud-v1073191-for-32-bit-windows-users

hxxps://blog.avast.com/update-to-the-ccleaner-5.33.6162-security-incident

So i believe any antivirus is better for the known threats, not unknown ones.

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