In the case of AdwCleaner, it was founded by three 17 year-olds in Paris in 2011 and saw viral popularity early on. Indeed, like Malwarebytes, AdwCleaner was started by teenage computer enthusiasts looking to solve a problem for themselves (Kleczynski originally built Malwarebytes to remove malware from his parents’ computer). Their reasons for building it were right, and this comes through in the passion of the management team, and quality of the product.” It’s a fantastic product, fighting a very worthy cause. “Given my background as a teenage entrepreneur myself, I only ever wanted AdwCleaner.
“Everyone was very happy with the deal, i’ll just leave it at that,” he added. He added that Malwarebytes has been trying to buy AdwCleaner “for a long time.” Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. “AdwCleaner is particularly vicious in the way it catches and destroys bloatware, adware and other ‘PUPS’ and we want to have that available to as many people as possible, both consumer and enterprise,” said Marcin Kleczynski, the CEO and founder of Malwarebytes. Over time the plan is to gradually integrate its software into Malwarebyte’s wider product set, which currently addresses malware, ransomware and exploits that fall under the radar of many of the bigger antivirus solutions.
Malwarebytes will keep the AdwCleaner brand for now.
The company is acquiring a startup out of France called AdwCleaner, whose product specifically tackles and removes adware and has seen a total of 200 million downloads across Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 in 32 and 64-bit platforms. After raising $50 million earlier this year from Fidelity, security startup Malwarebytes said that it would use some of the funding for acquisitions, and today comes some related news.
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