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CCleaner hacked with malware: What you need to know

It seems that CCleaner, one of PCWorld’s recommendations for the , might not have been keeping your PC so clean after all. In an in-depth probe of the popular optimization and  has discovered a malicious bit of code injected by hackers that could have affected more than 2 million users who downloaded the most recent update.

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