AdwCleaner 8.7.0 Beta Released – Performance, Stability, and a Security Fix

December 21, 2025 / December 21, 2025 by Corentin C | Leave a comment

Good news from the AdwCleaner team: AdwCleaner 8.7.0 is now available in beta.

This new release focuses on important internal improvements rather than visible UI changes. The way AdwCleaner handles JSON data—which is heavily used internally—has been significantly optimized, resulting in better stability and improved performance, especially during scans and data processing.

AdwCleaner 8.7.0 also fixes a security vulnerability:

CVE-2025-67905 – Privilege Escalation issue

Users testing the beta are strongly encouraged to update, as this fix improves the overall security posture of the tool.

Changelog – AdwCleaner 8.7.0 (Beta)

Changes

Faster and more robust JSON parser
Updated bundled definitions to 2025.12.16.1

Bugfixes

Fixed CVE-2025-67905 (Privilege Escalation)

This beta release is also an opportunity for users to share feedback and feature requests. If there’s something you feel is missing or could be improved in AdwCleaner, now is the perfect time to speak up.

👉 Download AdwCleaner 8.7.0 Beta:
https://adwcleaner.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner?channel=beta

or on toolslib: https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/files/3246/

As always, beta versions are recommended for testing purposes. Production users may prefer to wait for the final stable release.

Corentin C

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