Warning: DO NOT install the latest version of CCleaner

A month ago, I wrote about how I felt Avast was ruining CCleaner, the excellent system cleaning software it took over when it acquired Piriform last year. In Avast's short tenure, we've already seen CCleaner suffer from malware, bundled software, and pop-up ads. In my article headline I asked "what’s next?" Well, with a new version of CCleaner available to download, we now have the answer. Inevitably, it's not good. SEE ALSO: Avast is ruining CCleaner -- malware, bundled software, popup ads... what's next? The changelog for CCleaner 5.45 lists the following 'improvements': In this release, we’ve made stability improvements… [Continue Reading]