![]() ![]() However, the original source of the announcement could not be identified. Update: It appears that an announcement regarding CCleaner coming to Windows 11's Microsoft Store was officially made by CCleaner last year. While we are on the topic of CCleaner on Microsoft Store, there appears to be an impostor app posing as CCleaner called " PCCleaner" and uses the real CCleaner's logo. Take Recuva with you wherever you go with the portable version. The expression and words showed that Microsoft at least to some degree wasn't really a fan of the software back then. Piriform - Authors of the hugely popular software CCleaner, Defraggler, Recuva and Speccy. ![]() Initially, the company believed it was confined to the above versions running on a 32-bit Windows systems and that downloading upgraded versions of the program would solve the problem. About CCleaner Maharaj had said:ĬCleaner is … how do I put it mildly … Don’t… let’s just move on! CCleaners parent company, Avast Piriform, found the malware on September 12, 2017, and immediately took steps to remediate the problem. Maharaj was apparently trying to advise a user upgrading their PC from Windows 7 to Windows 10 about unwanted and unnecessary apps. Going even further back to 2015, Microsoft's Gov Maharaj, Principal Software Development Engineer, had seemingly completely ignored the application during a web show called The Defrag Show that was published on Microsoft's Channel 9 website (link appears not to be available anymore). Perhaps coincidentally, the bundled software all appear to be rival alternatives of Microsoft's own offerings. The Redmond company later revised the CCleaner listing from PUA:Win32/CCleaner to PUA:Win32/PiriformBundler. ![]()
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