[release] AdwCleaner 8.4.1

[jboursier]

  

Hello,

After a long period without receiving public facing updates, I'm very happy to share a new release for AdwCleaner, 8.4.1. This is a maintenance version to fix a security vulnerability and update the bundled definitions.

Many of you have questions and are curious regarding what's next for AdwCleaner, and I hope to be able to share more about that soon. Regardless, we should now be back on track to release more regular and valuable updates!

Please share your feature requests and any suggestions you would like to see implemented!

Thanks to everyone who submits vulnerability reports, we love to receive them!

As usual, see the changelog below:

## v8.4.1 [29/01/2024]

### Changes

* Update bundled definitions to 2024.01.29.1

### Bugfixes

* Fix Privilege Escalation when deleting debug logfiles (CVE-2023-28892 - https://www.malwarebytes.com/secure/cves/cve-2023-28892)

Download here: https://malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner

Edited January 29 by jboursier

[CliffS]

I'm getting this error at the download page.

 

[jboursier]

Hello,

This has been fixed, the CDN cleaning process took a bit longer than usual and we ended up in a "in-between" test. All good now!

[fredvries]

Database doesn't seem to be updated.

[Sylv]

On 1/31/2024 at 10:05 PM, fredvries said:

Database doesn't seem to be updated.

 

You have to disable cloud database in the settings. Strange.