Greetings, Professor Falken, and fellow Long Time Users of Piriform Software. There is hope among CCleaner users that Avast might do away with the toolbars that currently come bundled with CCleaner. The acquisition looks like a smart move from Avast to strengthen and consolidate its position in the tune-up utility market. Avast already offers two other system optimization utilities, Avast Cleanup and AVG TuneUp. In its Piriform acquisition announcement, Avast said it plans to continue to offer CCleaner as a standalone product. At the time of the acquisition, AVG was the third-ranked anti-malware product. In July 2016, Avast announced plans to buy fellow antivirus maker AVG for $1.3 billion. An OPSWAT report detailing anti-malware market share places Avast at the top of the antivirus mountain with an estimated market share of 20.48%, as of June 2017. In November 2016, Piriform announced that CCleaner had surpassed two billion downloads, making it one of the most popular pieces of software worldwide, with over 23 million downloads each month.īased in the Czech Republic, Avast is a cyber-security powerhouse. The company's claim to fame is its CCleaner application, a very popular OS optimization utility with versions for Windows, Mac, and Android.Īccording to Piriform, CCleaner has over 130 million users on desktop and over 15 million users on mobile. Piriform is a privately held company based in London, UK, founded back in 2004. The acquisition was announced today in a press release and on the blogs of both companies, but no financial details are currently available. Avast, today's largest vendor of security software, has acquired Piriform, a UK-based company that is behind many successful desktop and mobile apps, such as CCleaner, Recuva, Speccy, and Defraggler.
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