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[piquiteco]

Actually 16/62 antivirus are detecting it

Even Microsoft Defender, would detect it. But Microsoft chose to disable the detection of PUA in Defender, a few years ago even the famous CCleaner was being flagged as PUA by MD, do not know if you remember.

 

[Ink]

A few months of Avira are passed and I really want to get rid of it!

I have already created exclusions, but it fights with Steganos all day anyway. It removes its updater, kills randomly DLLs, whatever. It even gets broken in operation for no reason.
Moreover, exclusion creation sucks, why not have the button for this in the pop-up?
PUA disable is not an option - it's better to get rid of it.

Solution: Don't fight Avira, uninstall it.

Uninstalling any third-party Antivirus on Windows 10/11 will reactivate Microsoft Defender meaning you won't be unprotected for the time to decide on another vendor.

 

[roger_m]

Actually 16/62 antivirus are detecting it

Aside from DrWeb, which wrongly detects it as being a trojan, all the others are detecting it as a PUP, riskware, adware, or similar, rather than anything malicious.

 

[Ink]

Actually 16/62 antivirus are detecting it

Another reported it being flagged by Malwarebytes.

Steganos VPN Online Shield now showing as pup

Hello, three days back, the subject VPN program started showing as a pup. For years I've been able to run the VPN without interference by adding these 3 files to my Allow List: c:\program files (x86)\steganos online shield\onlineshieldclient.exe c:\program files (x86)\steganos online shield\onlin...

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