In recent years we have seen how new software companies have gained an important niche in the market. On the one hand we find Avast and AVG as alternatives to Norton, Panda, McAfee and others. But we also find applications that allow us to clean our computer. Among the large number of applications that have flooded the market, the only one that has stood out among all has been CCLeaner, becoming a reference not only in the world of computing but also in mobile ecosystems, at least on Android, since iOS this type of application has no place.
Just over a year ago, the landscape of antivirus veterans shrank after lXNUMXst acquisition of AVG by Avast. Again the guys from Avast, who already had an application to clean our computer, have taken out the checkbook and bought CCleaner, not the entire company that had developed the application, but only this excellent application.
This movement, like the one a year ago, seem aimed at reducing or rather eliminating competition of this company in both fields, something that the European authorities never usually like.
According to the statement in which the news has been confirmed, the application will continue to work as before, the only thing that changes is the company behind it, which goes from being Piriform to Avast.
Avast's future plans perhaps they will integrate this service within the antivirus to offer a more complete computing solution, but at the moment there is no more information about it and the only thing we can do about it is speculation. If Avast's intentions with CCleaner are fulfilled, we will be able to trust it in our day to day to always keep our PC and Mac clean, delete applications, clean garbage ...