Just bumping this as an update and alert.

When I learnt about this back in September, I did what I thought was a thorough removal of CCleaner and then ran both Avast and Malwarebytes scans and all was well.

I've run both scans in October as a matter of course, both regularly updated.

So - not at all happy to find today's scan by Malwarebytes picked up a trojan connected with CC - Avast totally missed it.

Once I'd completed the quarantine process, I went in search of where this thing had been sitting only to find that the removal of CCleaner had not touched the downloads.

I don't know if this made a difference but a) I was just a tad annoyed that I'd missed them and b) that trojan had sneeked in under the radar after I thought all was safe and since I removed CCleaner from my programs.

So - if anyone had CC updated during that August/September timeperiod, it may be worth not just removing it completely, plus checking all folders  and running extra scans regularly.

Also - when that trojan was found by Malwarebytes, I tried doing a search (Find) for ccsetup and the search came up blank. I had to go back to MWB to look at the directory path to find where it had been located.