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Old September 18th 17, 05:22 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Mr. Man-wai Chang
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Default Alert over booby-trapped security software

Alert over booby-trapped security software
Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387

A security company has issued a warning after its software was
compromised by malicious hackers.

Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had
been made available in August and September.

Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from
Android phones and Windows PCs.

Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised
version before any harm had been done.
Cleaning up

If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not
been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the
2.27 million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said
Paul Yung, from Piriform.

Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12
September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally
modified" before it had been made available to the public.

The modified version was available for about a month.

.... more .....

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Old September 18th 17, 07:07 PM posted to alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Alert over booby-trapped security software

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:22:40 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:

Alert over booby-trapped security software
Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387

A security company has issued a warning after its software was
compromised by malicious hackers.

Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had
been made available in August and September.

Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from
Android phones and Windows PCs.

Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised
version before any harm had been done.
Cleaning up

If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not
been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the
2.27 million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said
Paul Yung, from Piriform.

Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12
September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally
modified" before it had been made available to the public.

The modified version was available for about a month.


And millions of people installed it, and were not hacked.
There are no registry changes on my PC, and no attempts were made to
phone home (other than to Piriform, which it does, even if you turn
off updates).
Kaspersky, one of, if not the best AV out there still does not
detect the so-called trojan.
So maybe it's just a false flag ?
CCleaner is losing ground to other cleaners like Wise Disk
Cleaner ever since Avast bought them out ... it needs the hype.
On behalf of Avast, I have to thank you.
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Old September 18th 17, 09:08 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Alert over booby-trapped security software

On 09/18/2017 11:22 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Alert over booby-trapped security software
Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387

A security company has issued a warning after its software was
compromised by malicious hackers.

Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had
been made available in August and September.

Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from
Android phones and Windows PCs.

Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised
version before any harm had been done.
Cleaning up

If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not
been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the
2.27 million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said
Paul Yung, from Piriform.

Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12
September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally
modified" before it had been made available to the public.

The modified version was available for about a month.

... more .....




Thanks for the info.

Only have CCleaner on one machine and it's an older version.

I never updated it because I assumed all I'd get is a cartoon-like GUI
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Old September 18th 17, 09:44 PM posted to alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Alert over booby-trapped security software

On 19/9/2017 2:07 AM, Shadow wrote:

And millions of people installed it, and were not hacked.
There are no registry changes on my PC, and no attempts were made to
phone home (other than to Piriform, which it does, even if you turn
off updates).
Kaspersky, one of, if not the best AV out there still does not
detect the so-called trojan.
So maybe it's just a false flag ?
CCleaner is losing ground to other cleaners like Wise Disk
Cleaner ever since Avast bought them out ... it needs the hype.
On behalf of Avast, I have to thank you.


To err is human. To deliberately err is a grand plot?

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Old September 19th 17, 12:27 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Alert over booby-trapped security software

"philo" wrote in message news

On 09/18/2017 11:22 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Alert over booby-trapped security software
Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387

A security company has issued a warning after its software was
compromised by malicious hackers.

Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had
been made available in August and September.

Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from
Android phones and Windows PCs.

Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised
version before any harm had been done.
Cleaning up

If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not
been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the 2.27
million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said Paul
Yung, from Piriform.

Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12
September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally
modified" before it had been made available to the public.

The modified version was available for about a month.

... more .....




Thanks for the info.

Only have CCleaner on one machine and it's an older version.

I never updated it because I assumed all I'd get is a cartoon-like GUI


The new one still looks a lot like the old one, at least on my PC.
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Old September 19th 17, 01:04 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Jack Fate[_2_]
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Default Alert over booby-trapped security software

Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Alert over booby-trapped security software
Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387

A security company has issued a warning after its software was
compromised by malicious hackers.

Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had
been made available in August and September.

Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from
Android phones and Windows PCs.

Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised
version before any harm had been done.
Cleaning up

If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not
been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the
2.27 million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said
Paul Yung, from Piriform.

Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12
September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally
modified" before it had been made available to the public.

The modified version was available for about a month.

... more .....


Only affects 32 bit Windows, not 64.
 




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