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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avast Software, maker of the most trusted security in the world, today announced a fully redesigned version of Avast Cleanup, a powerful tool that expertly ...

Avast Premium Security helps ensure you don’t fall victim to online scams or phishing attempts with Avast Assistant—an ...

Software company Piriform may not be a household name, but the company has been offering a handful of popular, powerful, and free apps for Windows computers for years. Piriform is the developer behind ...

Avast said it believes that threat actors are again looking to target CCleaner in a supply chain attack. Czech antivirus vendor Avast on Monday warned that hackers were able to access its internal ...

Security software product maker Avast is announcing their acquisition of London-based Piriform. The latter is known for their CCleaner performance optimization software, a utility with 130 ...

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According to its parent company Avast, more than 130 million people use the performance optimization software CCleaner. And today all of those people need to be sure they’ve installed the latest ...

Avast published earlier today a post-mortem of the CCleaner malware incident, in the hopes to clarify some of the details surrounding the event that many of its users found troubling. Below is a ...

When Avast learned that its CCleaner security software had been infected with a backdoor by unknown hackers, they thought any real damage had been avoided, even though 2.27 million had downloaded the ...

In August 2017, the installer for the popular clean-up tool CCleaner was tampered with by hackers to contain a malicious backdoor, and downloaded by 2.27 million customers worldwide. Now Czech ...

REDWOOD CITY, California--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avast, the global leader in digital security products, today announced that it has acquired Piriform, the leading provider of device performance optimization ...