IMPORTANT! CCleaner users, the program has been hacked! Uninstall and reinstall!

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AbbathTheGrim on 18 September 2017

In case we have people here using this program.

Someone hacked the disk cleaner program about a month ago, about 2.3 Million Infected:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/09/18/ccleaner-cybersecurity-app-infected-with-backdoor/#4261b4c7316a

- dirty versions seem to affect those who downloaded the software versions during the interval between August 15 to September 12

- apparently uninstalling and reinstalling fixes the problem

Now trending in Twitter:

https://twitter.com/search?q=CCleaner&src=tren&data_id=tweet%3A909794114757160960

Stay safe everyone.

Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 18 September 2017

Rip although I haven't used CC cleaner since like Windows 7

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Darwinianevolution on 18 September 2017

Thanks for the warning. I'll unninstall it and I'll reinstall it when it's safe to do so again.

You know it deserves the GOTY.

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Ultrashroomz on 18 September 2017

Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't this app become crappier over the years?

"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

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VGPolyglot on 18 September 2017

I was thinking of downloading it, good thing I didn't end up doing that!!

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FIT_Gamer on 18 September 2017

Why do people even use CCleaner? It doesn't do anything you easily can't already do from the OS.

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kljesta64 on 18 September 2017

my ver is 5yo so i guess im good

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