With many using its free tools, CCleaner is easily one of the most well-known device and registry cleaners in the world-it claims to have over 2.5 billion downloads, with more than 5 million desktop installs per week. Unfortunately, there’s still no iOS app yet. The creator Piriform launched a number of other utilities throughout this period as well, before the company was bought by Avast in 2017. In 2012, it also launched a macOS version to compete with Mackeeper and CleanMyMac, as well as an Android app following soon after. We’ll look at all the most important aspects, such as:ĬCleaner was launched in 2004 as a Windows PC-only device cleaner with the aim to make looking after one’s devices as easy as possible. In this CCleaner review, we’ll take you through a deep-dive of one of the most widely used junk cleanup and PC utility tools in the world. So, it may now be the case that if you go to install CCleaner while running Microsoft Defender, you’re no longer warned against proceeding, assuming the security app is indeed updated as CCleaner asserts.Running out of space? Noticing a slow-down in your computer’s performance or strange and unexpected errors? It might be time to give your PC a much-needed tune-up. We surmise the issue appears to be around bundling, and we believe we have addressed this so that our product is now no longer flagged.” Often, these matters are down to the way the options to opt out are presented.Īt any rate, according to a statement just released by CCleaner, the firm believes that the issue has been resolved.Ī CCleaner spokesperson told us: “We are in the process of engaging with Microsoft to understand why CCleaner was recently detected as PUA.
The company observes that while the CCleaner installation process does provide a way to opt out of putting these extras on your PC, as you would expect, the judgment is that “some users can easily inadvertently install these bundled applications”. Microsoft further stresses that those bundled apps are perfectly fine and not in any way malicious, of course, but it’s the way that they are offered for installation which is problematic. Those bundled apps include Google Chrome browser, Google Toolbar, and Avast Free Antivirus plus AVG Antivirus Free (note that Piriform is now owned by Avast, which also owns AVG too).
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