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CCleaner (/ ˈ s iː ˌ k l iː n ər /; originally meaning "Crap Cleaner"), [6] developed by Piriform Software, is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer.
Piriform Software Ltd. is a British software company based in London, owned since 2017 by Avast which itself became part of Gen Digital in 2022. The company develops cleaning and optimisation tools for Microsoft Windows , macOS and Android operating systems , including CCleaner , CCleaner Browser, Defraggler , Recuva and Speccy .
CCleaner is a popular tool used to clean potentially unwanted files from Windows computers, widely used by security-minded users. The distributed installer binaries were signed with the developer's certificate making it likely that an attacker compromised the development or build environment and used this to insert malware.
AVG Technologies was founded by Tomáš Hofer and Jan Gritzbach in 1990 under the name Grisoft in Brno, Czechoslovakia. [2] Initially, Grisoft sold IT equipment and third-party software, in addition to its own antivirus product. [3]
www.ccleaner.com /speccy Speccy , developed by Piriform Software , is a freeware utility software and runs under Microsoft Windows 11 , Windows 10 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 , Vista and XP for both IA-32 and x64 versions of these operating systems , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] which shows the user information about hardware and software of the computer.
Avast founders Eduard Kučera (left) and Pavel Baudiš (right) in 2016 with their spouses, who run the non-profit Avast Foundation for community development. Avast Software s.r.o. is a Czech multinational cybersecurity software company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, that researches and develops computer security software, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
www.ccleaner.com /recuva Recuva ( / r ɪ ˈ k ʌ v ə / ) [ 2 ] is an undeletion program for Windows , developed by Piriform Software . It is able to undelete files that have been marked as deleted ; the operating system marks the areas of the disk in which they were stored as free space. [ 3 ]
Vincent Pilette is an American businessman who is chief executive officer (CEO) of Gen Digital, a Fortune 500 company specializing in consumer cyber safety with brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCleaner, and ReputationDefender.