Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33

Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by sundvor on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:16AM (#15274850)

Malwarebytes is great. However, what if it was their installer that was attacked in such fashion?

Trusting old memories of what's good or not can be dangerous. I remember getting caught out once by CoreTemp which suddenly packed a load of dung in its default installer. :(

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by kbutler on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:50AM (#15275363)

Sourceforge revolutionizes open source by providing free hosting for projects!

[later]

Sourceforge - You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[still later]

Sourceforge is respectable again! (hopefully?)

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by kevin_thibedeau on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:55AM (#15275393)

> Sourceforge is respectable again! (hopefully?)

When pigs fly. I cringe every time I encounter a project hosted on SF and have to play their stupid find the download link game.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by PenguinCoder on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:07AM (#15275482)

Uh have you been there recently? Like in the past year? The company is under new management, and cleaned up their act and download pages a lot. Sourceforge is headed in a better direction again.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by lightedman on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:22AM (#15275629)

Yet while SourceForge improved, Slashdot became a clone of HN's front page and is a cesspool of horrid editing staff, now.

So take that as you will. That tells me that SourceForge is probably bound to degrade some time soon.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by foobarchu on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:49AM (#15275876)

For apps it supports, Ninite is a good way to avoid that kind of thing, although it may not have stopped the CCleaner issue. They package their installer with extraneous bundles removed.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by godzillabrennus on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:45PM (#15280363)

I hope Ninite reads this and pulls them off their list of installers. It should be automatically removed from end users by Ninite as a direct response to this.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by foobarchu on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @09:25PM (#15299867)

Well, it's not on the list currently, so either they never had it or they did indeed remove it.

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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 by voltagex_ on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:41PM (#15280929)

BoxStarter is looking promising - http://boxstarter.org/

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