No Question, But Worth Knowing If You Use Ccleaner.

[Old_Geezer]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/18/tainted_ccleaner_downloads/

[Buenchico]

Thanks for your post, O_G.

I'd actually got v5.33 on one machine (and a long overdue scan with Malwarebytes confirmed the presence of the trojan). So I zapped it with Malwarebytes and then installed v5.34.

The Register (which I usually trust as being reliable) might have gone a bit over the top though by saying that users' computers "became infected with a covert backdoor capable of spying on everything they did online". Firstly, Floxif only activates itself if the computer's user is the administrator (and recent versions of Windows hide the administrator account, rather than making it the default account). Even then it has to download and activate further malware before anything nasty can happen.

[jno]

thoughtful of Avast to distribute it.

[Old_Geezer]

Glad it helped.

[Lie-in King]

Thanks O_G, very helpful - I also had the Trojan on both machines, duly zapped & installed the new version.

[Arksided]

I'm happy with basic Avast and doing a scan with Malwarebytes. Once bit twice shy nowadays since I had to re-install everything a few years ago.

[iminoz]

Thanks for the heads-up, OG.
Hopefully all fixed now.

[TTG]

In addition, I believe it's only the 32bit version which was affected.

[Togo]

Good info Geezer. I am not affected, but I have forwarded your link to my son who may use it and to family as well.

[Khandro]

Why allow all that stuff into your computer in the first place, just use Windows Defender.

[Togo]

Ditto Khandro.