Thread: "CCleaner compromised: better check your PC"
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Old September 18th 17, 08:44 PM posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.lang.c,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Chris M. Thomasson[_2_]
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Default "CCleaner compromised: better check your PC"
On 9/18/2017 10:17 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 18/9/2017 8:28 PM, Yrrah wrote:
"Piriform, makers of the popular file cleaner CCleaner, confirmed on
Monday 18th, 2017 that hackers managed to attack the company's
computer network successfully.(...)
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/09/18/ccleaner-compromised-better-check-your-pc/


I am appalled...;-)

Why? All software could be compromised because TO ERR IS HUMAN! Want me
to cite Murphy's Laws as well?Â*


I wonder how many of those errors are highly obscure and on purpose, in
order to create some potential "back doors, cracks and creases"... Ahhh,
this is crazy talk! Sorry.

;^o