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The platform and its programs have been rated potentially unwanted programs (PUP) or potentially unwanted applications (PUA) by anti-malware product vendors since 2014, [3] and by Windows Defender Antivirus since 2015. [4] The platform was primarily designed for efficient web-based deployment of various types of application software.
Peer-to-peer file sharing programs are sometimes labelled as PUA and deleted due to their alleged links to piracy. In March 2021, Windows Defender started removing uTorrent and qBittorrent, causing widespread user confusion. Microsoft has since updated the PUA database to flag torrent clients on enterprise installations only. [26]
OpenCandy was an adware module and a potentially unwanted program classified as malware by many anti-virus vendors. [1] [2] [3] [4] They flagged OpenCandy due to its ...
Most hijacking programs constantly change the settings of browsers, meaning that user choices in their own browser are overwritten. Some antivirus software identifies browser hijacking software as malicious software and can remove it. Some spyware scanning programs have a browser restore function to set the user's browser settings back to ...
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Sality is a family of polymorphic file infectors, which target Windows executable files with the extensions .EXE or .SCR. [1] Sality utilizes polymorphic and entry-point obscuring (EPO) techniques to infect files using the following methods: not changing the entry point address of the host, and replacing the original host code at the entry point of the executable with a variable stub to ...
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