Downloaded CCleaner lately? Oo, awks... it was stuffed with malware

The Register
Sep 18, 2017, 9:46 am1.8k ptsInterestingTop
OK, OK, well the 2.27 million victims were not Reg readers Antivirus firm Avast has admitted inadvertently distributing a trojanised version of CCleaner, a popular PC tune-up tool, for nearly a month, infecting an estimated 2.27 million users.…

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