The latest version of CCleaner no longer secretly installs Avast Free Antivirus on your computer

To talk about CCleaner is to talk about a popular multi-platform application for systems maintenance An app that happened to be acquired by Avast, the popular antivirus company although both went their separate ways. They were not together in the same _pack_.

With CCleaner we are going to recover space from our device thanks to the fact that it facilitates the elimination of unnecessary files and invalid entries from the Windows registry. In this way, the performance of our PC (or Android phone) is optimized.The problem is that with one of the latest versions of CCleaner, the program installed Avast Free Antivirus in passing

And it is not something specific and that it will only affect this case, because it is increasingly common for applications to install add-onsor even other applications during the installation process. A fact that makes the user have to be careful not to get surprises.

The developer company on duty trying to "sneak" us an application without us noticing and that is something that does not cause a good impression among users. As they say in GHacks, this has happened for a while with CCleaner, a situation that also aggravated its delicate situation after having launched a version with malicious code from its own servers.

Piriform however and to avoid criticism has eliminated this optionWe have done the test and if we now download and install the free version of CCleaner (5.37) we will no longer have to be on the alert to avoid being placed on our computer in parallel with Avast Free Antivirus, whose installation was activated by default, being the user the you should uncheck it.

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It was shown in GHacks that offer the image of the Get Avast Free Antivirus now box, which we had to uncheck. In fact, Avast does not appear installed next to the antivirus that we already use on the machine."

You can see how it no longer appears in any section and as an option the possibility of installing Avast.

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The problem with this type of practice is that they do it covertly because also, installing a second antivirus if we already have another installed can cause operating problems in our equipment and make the performance of the system suffer. And all without our knowingly giving our consent."

"You know, if you want to use CCleaner you can install it without any problem, without the threat of Avast installing itself discreetly."

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