Did anyone catch a few of the comments in the PCMag article?
Comment 1
"Version 5.34 of CCleaner is not the CCleaner of old and is now just another malware scanner, no more cleaning (that I could find, at least in the free version). So while you want to avoid 5.33 because of the malware, you may want to stick with 5.32 if you use the app primarily for cache cleaning like I do! Luckily the new install of 5.34 didn't delete the older version 5.32 of CCleaner (which may also leave the bad 5.33 as well, BTW).
But this change leads one to suspect this was simply a publicity stunt to get people moved to the new version that needs payment to do anything useful..."
Comment 2
"FYI, I just ran Malwarebytes on my 64-bit machine with CCleaner v5.34.6207 already installed.
Malwarebytes detected Trojan.Nyetya for download of ccsetup533.exe and \Program Files (86)\iolo\System Checkup"