Today, a Piriform product is installed over 23 million times each month. In November last year, the company announced that the utility had been downloaded over 2 billion times. Piriform makes a number of device performance optimization programs, though it's best known for CCleaner, which is used by 130 million people, including 15 million Android users. The move cements Avast's place at the top of the anti-malware industry, where its market share is around 20 percent. Now, the Czech company has acquired Piriform, the UK-based firm behind popular system-cleaning tool CCleaner.īoth companies announced the deal on their respective websites, but the terms of the acquisition were not revealed. It's been over a year since security software giant Avast purchased rival AVG Technologies for $1.3 billion, bringing its total user numbers to around 400 million.
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