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PUP Friday: Content Protector

October 21, 2016 - Content Protector or Content Defender as it was called before, is an adware not to be confused with the legitimate WordPress...

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PUP Friday: Let’s talk generic

October 7, 2016 - The detection name of PUP.Optional.Downloader is probably as non-specific as you can get when it comes to identifying what particular unwanted...

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PUP Friday: Nikoff Security redux

September 30, 2016 - Last Friday, I wrote about a set of 6 PUP apps by Nikoff Security. This week, there have been some new developments in...

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PUP Friday: Nikoff Security

September 23, 2016 - My attention was drawn a few weeks ago to a group of 6 apps in the Mac App Store, all made...

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PUP Friday: MPlayerX

September 9, 2016 - MPlayerX began to be associated with malware about two years ago, or possibly even longer. Back in 2014, an emerging piece...

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PUP Friday: MacKeeper

August 19, 2016 - MacKeeper first crossed my path more than five years ago. At that time, I was very active on Apple’s forums, and saw many...

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PUP Friday: Adware family EoRezo

August 5, 2016 - EoRezo which is sometimes called Tuto4PC, is a family of software bundles that typically offers something useful for free and then...

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PUP Friday: Cleaning up with 5 star awards

July 29, 2016 - Systweak’s RegClean Pro is quite a popular software. Top Ten Reviews, a consumer review portal based in Utah, has ranked it...

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PUP Friday: One Click, Many Downloads

July 8, 2016 - Files that Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) detect as OneClickDownloader are what we call bundlers. We have defined bundlers as a blend of...

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PUP Friday: RelevantKnowledge

June 10, 2016 - RelevantKnowledge is a Marketscore variant. It is considered adware and by some even seen as spyware. MarketScore, formerly known as Netsetter,...

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