Hot Take Eset detects AOMEI PM as PUP

Backupper Pro and Partition assitsant are by the same company. BP is not blocked but PA is. Maybe PA has a system optimiser incorporated that made it flagged as PUP. I will send an email to AOMEI and see about it.
That's a good point, and that Eset was possibly doing a good job in detecting it?
 
That's a good point, and that Eset was possibly doing a good job in detecting it?
Most probably, but as I said it would have been nice if Eset provided more info.

I am having a bad day as Eset does not seem to play well with Adguard VPN. When VPN is activated, Eset does not detect any of AMTSO tests.
 
Most probably, but as I said it would have been nice if Eset provided more info.

I am having a bad day as Eset does not seem to play well with Adguard VPN. When VPN is activated, Eset does not detect any of AMTSO tests.
I just checked it out on my end, with Proton VPN enabled and for the tests I did run, Eset did wonderfully.

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Well, last week ESET Liveguard blocked Antivirus installers on my end. AVG installer was new released so I give Eset the benefit of the doubt on that.The Ikarus file was months old and was deleted.Xvirus was detected as FakeAV.

Oh man...I'm starting to conclude now how Eset hate the competition.
 
It's not where I dump Eset for it's occasional FP's and this, but, I will still use F-Secure and Avast free as well, to help compare and keep each other honest ;)
you lost me -- are you running Eset AV and F-secure AV on same computer (or browser ext?)... on different pc & you sometimes check the results against each other... :unsure:
 
I was downloading AOMEI Partition Master Pro and Eset did detect it as PUP and aborted the download.

I've been using PM for years and I don't remember the installer was bundled with any other apps.
Not surprised ESET flags it as PUP when it can flag malware like valleyrat as PUP
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you lost me -- are you running Eset AV and F-secure AV on same computer (or browser ext?)... on different pc & you sometimes check the results against each other... :unsure:
Two different laptops ;) I also have a Windows 10 desktop that I fire up once in a while. At times, I use one laptop for the better keyboard, and the other for the better screen. I do like comparing them against each other, checking the results against each other :)
 
It's normal to have this type of PUP detection in ESET. They rely on AppSteem's info to detect such programs. But ESET, along with Kaspersky, are two of the rare AVs that let you whitelist by detection name as well as file hash. So just create detection exclusions for such programs.
Not surprised ESET flags it as PUP when it can flag malware like valleyrat as PUP
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One of the reasons I set everything to Aggressive in ESET, including PUP and PUA.
But to be fair, from the screenshot, here Bitdefender, G-Data (own engine), K7 and Microsoft are also detecting it as a PUP so there must be a valid reason for that.
 
It's normal to have this type of PUP detection in ESET. They rely on AppSteem's info to detect such programs. But ESET, along with Kaspersky, are two of the rare AVs that let you whitelist by detection name as well as file hash. So just create detection exclusions for such programs.

One of the reasons I set everything to Aggressive in ESET, including PUP and PUA.
But to be fair, from the screenshot, here Bitdefender, G-Data (own engine), K7 and Microsoft are also detecting it as a PUP so there must be a valid reason for that.
backdoor drops so assumed pup as decoy
 
It's normal to have this type of PUP detection in ESET. They rely on AppSteem's info to detect such programs. But ESET, along with Kaspersky, are two of the rare AVs that let you whitelist by detection name as well as file hash. So just create detection exclusions for such programs.

One of the reasons I set everything to Aggressive in ESET, including PUP and PUA.
But to be fair, from the screenshot, here Bitdefender, G-Data (own engine), K7 and Microsoft are also detecting it as a PUP so there must be a valid reason for that.
it happens all the time vendors think it is a pup. turns out to be a rootkit
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