CCleaner is one of the world's most widely used software tools for PC optimization, having been downloaded more than 1 billion times to date. The patent confirms CCleaner as a unique solution, with ...

“We're thrilled with the success of CCleaner and are proud to offer its efficiencies to users in the Apple ecosystem,” said Guy Saner, Piriform's CEO. “The Mac community has been clamoring for tools ...

The company behind CCleaner is Piriform. It’s a British software company and a subsidiary of Avast, the Czech cybersecurity software giant. Piriform was an independent, privately-owned company for ...

Security software giant Avast has acquired Piriform, the U.K.-based company behind CCleaner -- one of the most popular system cleaners on desktop and mobile. Founded out of London in 2004, Piriform is ...

Why it matters: Are you using the free version of CCleaner? If so, you'll probably notice that Windows Defender is now flagging the junk file remover as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) after ...

In mid-July, Avast Software, one of the world's largest security companies, acquired Piriform, the humble creator of CCleaner, the wildly successful PC tune-up utility. Avast claims to stop about 1 ...

Although Microsoft notes the classification only targets the free version of CCleaner, the company does believe this move comes as a way to protect Windows users. In a statement, Microsoft suggested ...

Microsoft is fed up with CCleaner, a popular utility that has been around for a decade and a half. Originally called "Crap Cleaner," CCleaner aims to do a better job at removing files and programs ...

Piriform released CCleaner 5.70 to address a bug that was causing the app to wipe settings for Firefox extensions installed after upgrading to Firefox 79 when cleaning the web browser's Internet cache ...