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AdwCleaner v6.021 has been published a few minutes ago. With the development of the CLI release in parallel, this release is considered as a maintenance release, with mostly bugfixes, small detections improvements and new translations. Also, we are making good progresses on the CLI release, if you're interested see more at the bottom of this article !

I have been warned about a potentially malicious website which was distributing AdwCleaner in a archive, along with other software. I was quite intrigued so I decided to take a look.

Hello there, its been a while since our last blog post about AdwCleaner. The reason is simple: the new release of AdwCleaner, v6.000, is now available for everyone on the official download page!
Thanks to the new code base, it’s considered as a major release which brings countless improvements, bug fixes, and new features. Here are a few important ones:

The current SSL certificate expires in a few days, so it's time to renew it. Here's the signed fingerprint of the new certificate, issued by Gandi.

Everyday we deal with an increasing traffic, coming from and to ToolsLib. These last weeks have been interesting to follow since we moved to a larger scale a bit earlier than expected.
We want to share some figures, graphs and explanations about how we deal with an important traffic and increasing data quantity on our infrastructure.

There has been major improvements made by the sysadmin team these last weeks. Even if it's not visible, we want to explain what has been made and what benefit will bring to you.

Depuis quelques semaines, une nouvelle vague d'infection apparaît. Elle cause les troubles habituels pour un adware : la navigation web est polluée de redirections et de publicités intrusives.
Elle se distingue néanmoins par son mode d'action qui la rend délicate à supprimer : elle modifie un fichier système (utilisé par Microsoft Windows pour la résolution de noms de domaines) afin d'en perturber son fonctionnement et dans le cas présent, de mentir sur les résolutions DNS.
AdwCleaner prend en charge ce type d'infection depuis la version 5.010 publiée le 4 Octobre 2015.

There has been an hour-downtime yesterday evening (07/02/15). For transparency reasons, here some explanations about what caused the outage.

La version 4.206 d'AdwCleaner a été publiée en début de semaine. Elle apporte plusieurs corrections et améliore les détections par l'ajout d'un nouveau chemin, ainsi que le support des FirewallPolicy.