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CCleaner malware
Anonymous
No.637
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If you have installed CCleaner you likely have to reformat your system.

>CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it first appeared
>The recent CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it initially appeared, according to newly unearthed evidence. That evidence shows that the CCleaner malware infected at least 20 computers from a carefully selected list of high-profile technology companies with a mysterious payload.
>Because the CCleaner backdoor was active for 31 days, the total number of infected computers is "likely at least in the order of hundreds," researchers from Avast, the antivirus company that acquired CCleaner in July, said in their own analysis published Thursday.
>From September 12 to September 16, the highly advanced second stage was reserved for computers inside 20 companies or Web properties, including Cisco, Microsoft, Gmail, VMware, Akamai, Sony, and Samsung. The 20 computers that installed the payload were from eight of those targeted organizations, Avast said, without identifying which ones. Again, because the data covers only a small fraction of the time the backdoor was active, both Avast and Talos believe the true number of targets and victims was much bigger.

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Anonymous
No.638
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>reformat
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>Format
What kind of pleb keeps formatting over and over?
Anonymous
No.639
>>638
It the ccleaner malware potential could install a stealth payload.

>Now that it's known the CCleaner backdoor actively installed a payload that went undetected for more than a month, Williams renewed his advice that people who installed the 32-bit version of CCleaner 5.33.6162 or CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3191 reformat their hard drives. He said simply removing the stage-one infection is insufficient given the proof now available that the second stage can survive and remain stealthy.
Anonymous
No.640
671
>>638
I see what you meant now... And because sarcasm often fly over my head I will type out an long "sarcastically toned" answer in all the best of intentions.
Reformat because the hard drive had to have been formated at least once to be able to hold any useful data. Thus the technical term "reformat" because it is at least the 2nd time the hard drive would have been formated.
Anonymous
No.671
>>640
who still uses a 32-bit system?
Anonymous
No.672
>>637
what if you have it, but haven't opened it once?
Anonymous
No.678
>>637
I had it once on my 32-bit laptop. I downloaded it to fix my registries and it only fucked it up further.

I got my OS reinstalled but that proba ly wont be enough huh?
Anonymous
No.792
You fucking what?
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