The main point of concern that forced the community to consider the fact that CCleaner is a riskware is that it uses PiriformBundler for the installation. Once again – you can do the same actions manually, and with the same efficiency, but it will take much more time to do it by your hands. It can wipe the rubbish files from your disk, delete the registry entries which are not used, and allows you to set up some of the system settings. Their main product – CCleaner – does a pretty good job for users who don’t want to keep their system clean manually. No one warns the user that there will be something else besides the CCleaner, so the chance that he/she will just click out the whole installation process is pretty high. ![]() The problem for CCleaner producer hides in its distribution model: free versions of this program are spread in a bundle with various other programs. ![]() ![]() All anti-malware vendors agreed with this opinion and added PiriformBundler to their detection lists. In 2021, the cybersecurity community considered the bundlers and bundled programs as hazardous.
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