#ccleaner

Cisco Systems has discovered that if you downloaded CCleaner 5.33 between August 15 and September 12, your computer is compromised:

On September 13, 2017 while conducting customer beta testing of our new exploit detection technology, Cisco Talos identified a specific executable which was triggering our advanced malware protection systems. Upon closer inspection, the executable in question was the installer for CCleaner v5.33, which was being delivered to endpoints by the legitimate CCleaner download servers. 

We identified that even though the downloaded installation executable was signed using a valid digital signature issued to Piriform, CCleaner was not the only application that came with the download.

During the installation of CCleaner 5.33, the 32-bit CCleaner binary that was included also contained a malicious payload that featured a Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) as well as hardcoded Command and Control (C2) functionality.

We confirmed that this malicious version of CCleaner was being hosted directly on CCleaner's download server as recently as September 11, 2017.

http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html

If you have any other version installed, you’re safe.

If you’ve been compromised, the safest thing to do is to straight up reset your computer from scratch; it’s the nuclear option, yes, but it’s the safest.

If you want pastime on your gadgets, I am suggesting you this apps with useful tools, don’t ask me why, I guaranteed that these are one of the best apps I had installed on my laptop J

 These are they lol:

Antivirus – SMADAV and effective (it’s free)

App I used for cleaning my entire HDD – Ccleaner (it cleaned the recycle bin also)

For professional photo editing (haha) – paint.net, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign

Video editing app – Lightworks (it’s an easy handling app) and Wondershare Filmora (bc it’s free)

 PS. Hope I get free lightworks app for advertising their app haha