Pup Malware

nashly

When I ran malwarebytes scan yesterday the result showed some pup malware in my pc, how did the pup malware get past malwarebytes and avast that I have as protection ? Seems daft to me scanning to find problems as I would like to stop them getting in in the first place.

Any ideas ?

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Depends what it is, pup means potentially unwanted, which could include legitimate programs, could be harmless

waddler_8

Pup's are "Potentially unwanted programs" - very minor.

What was detected exactly? - post the log.

nashly

Thanks for replies and I deleted the log yesterday, one I noticed was pup ...... SA trying to think what the missing middle bit was

nashly

Crossfire was the missing bit

waddler_8

Is the log not still accessible through the logs tab?

nashly

I will check

nashly

its empty, anywhere else I can retrieve it from ?

waddler_8

If the logs tab is empty then it's gone.

Be careful what you download, detections such as this are usually borne out of junkware you install.

nashly

Thanks for the advice, I will be more careful in future:eek:

waddler_8

There's a conflict of interests with some of the advice on this site. Some of the money saving/coupon type programs advised to be installed in other areas of the site are at odds with the advice handed out here.

The trade off for the coupons/savings is agreeing to install the vendors adware. We'd tell you to remove them or not install them in the first place.