#CCLEANER MALWARE CALLED UPDATE#

#CCLEANER MALWARE CALLED UPDATE#

As of now, Avast indicates that there is no indication that this has occurred.Īs Tim described in his informative article this morning, the only way to correct the issue is to update to 5.35 which now includes new Digital Signatures.

With this type of malware, the potential exists for it to download other malware onto your machine if CCleaner is not updated immediately. Floxif is engineered to gather data from an infected machine and pass it back to the hacker's command and control center. These two data values are what was utilized by the Floxif infection in version 5.33. You will need to go to the Registry Editor first to start looking for the offending keys left by the malware.įrom there then select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and under that go to SOFTWARE.įrom there locate Piriform - if you are infected, you will see Agomo listed there with two data values named MUID and TCID. If you are one of the unlucky CCleaner v5.33 32-Bit users then the infected version, once installed, created a Windows Registry Key in your system. ***Update: CCleaner has updated to 5.35 and with this update, all builds are signed with new Digital Signatures. Just a quick little write-up to allow you to double check your machine for the infection stemming from the CCleaner compromise even if you have updated to newest version there will still be a tell-tale sign left in the Windows Registry.

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