Popular PC application CCleaner is designed to help you free up space, delete unwanted apps and files, and remove invalid Windows Registry entries, among other things. In other words, the utility ...

Avast-owned Piriform reverted to a previous version of CCleaner in response to user outrage over its new data collection policy that had no privacy options. Avast-owned Piriform responded to the ...

Piriform has released CCleaner 4.00 and CCleaner Portable 4.00, major new release of its popular free cleaning tool for Windows users. Version 4.0 includes two new tools, but for the first time ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers broke into British company Piriform Ltd's free software that optimises computer performance last month, potentially allowing them to control the devices of millions ...

It was bought by Avast which acquired Piriform, the company that owned CCleaner, last year. In the latest version, 5.45, active monitoring could not be turned off and the free version had no privacy ...

Here’s a hard truth about Windows PCs that we’ve all had to learn at some point: sooner or later, they all seem to slow down. If you’re the family’s “IT person”, you’ve probably heard some version of ...

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 ...