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<blockquote data-quote="roger_m" data-source="post: 873351" data-attributes="member: 31436"><p>It will be and it makes absolutely no difference. There is no way to tell if software was installed as an unwanted extra or if it was manually installed by a user.</p><p></p><p>Originally, only software that came bundled as unwanted extras was classified as PUPs. However, such software was detected as being PUPs by Malwarebytes and some other security software, regardless of whether it was installed on a users computer as an unwanted extra along side some other software, or if it was installed manually. As I already said, there is no way to tell how the software was installed, so it was not possible to classify software are being a PUP, only if it came bundled with other software.</p><p> </p><p>These days, vendors such as Malwarebytes and Dr.Web classify a lot of junk cleaners and driver updaters as being PUPs, even ones that are never bundled with any other software and never have been. For example, a driver update can be classified as a PUP, just because it is a driver updater.</p><p></p><p>It is important to realise, that a lot of shady websites publish removal instructions for a wide range of PUPs, in order to earn affiliate revenue from the sale of anti-malware software. They falsely claim that harmless PUPs are actually malicious, or that they are hard to remove without removal tools, in order to encourage people to use anti-malware software to remove them, rather than just uninstalling them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roger_m, post: 873351, member: 31436"] It will be and it makes absolutely no difference. There is no way to tell if software was installed as an unwanted extra or if it was manually installed by a user. Originally, only software that came bundled as unwanted extras was classified as PUPs. However, such software was detected as being PUPs by Malwarebytes and some other security software, regardless of whether it was installed on a users computer as an unwanted extra along side some other software, or if it was installed manually. As I already said, there is no way to tell how the software was installed, so it was not possible to classify software are being a PUP, only if it came bundled with other software. These days, vendors such as Malwarebytes and Dr.Web classify a lot of junk cleaners and driver updaters as being PUPs, even ones that are never bundled with any other software and never have been. For example, a driver update can be classified as a PUP, just because it is a driver updater. It is important to realise, that a lot of shady websites publish removal instructions for a wide range of PUPs, in order to earn affiliate revenue from the sale of anti-malware software. They falsely claim that harmless PUPs are actually malicious, or that they are hard to remove without removal tools, in order to encourage people to use anti-malware software to remove them, rather than just uninstalling them. [/QUOTE]
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