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#PUP.ADVANCED MAC CLEANER QUARANTINE FOLDER UTORRENT#

Both of these were up-to-date, and have no relevance to the testing.

For full disclosure the only other applications installed on this VM were Microsoft Security Essentials and VirtualBox Guest Additions. (free), with up-to-date definitions, as the example antimalware application. I ran the tests on a VirtualBox virtual machine (VM) running a clean installation of Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, with all updates installed.

#PUP.ADVANCED MAC CLEANER QUARANTINE FOLDER UTORRENT#

To test this issue I used uTorrent 3.8 (stable), which was the latest version available at the time of writing. I had personally experienced this myself before and knew it to be true, so I decided to investigate thoroughly detail my findings and make some suggestions to both uTorrent uses and developers.

#PUP.ADVANCED MAC CLEANER QUARANTINE FOLDER INSTALL#

I can confirm that the potentially unwanted program (PUP), OpenCandy, is detected by some antimalware applications during the install of uTorrent that it is not an optional component and that detection occurs before anything is accepted or clicked during the installation process. While this works with some applications, it does not seem to work with all that you may come across.Ĭonduit Toolbar/Bunndle Crap can also be installed if you're not careful at installation but that's for another Day. Some programs support the /NOCANDY parameter which you can add to the run command when you start the installer to bypass OpenCandy during installation. The answer must be yes then, as OpenCandy displays automatic advertisement for another software product during the installation process. According to Wikipedia, adware is any software package which automatically renders advertisements. The answer depends on the definition of adware.

If the installation completed successfully If the recommendation was downloaded and the installer initiated If a third party recommendation was made, and whether it was accepted or declined

If the installer was completed or canceled OpenCandy sends anonymous statistics back to the server which is used to improve the technology and to provide software companies with analytic insights. The first recommendation to pass all tests is then selected and presented to the user in the installer. OpenCandy is a technology that software companies can add to installers to earn money from optional software offers that are based on a system scan and the user's location in the world.Īccording to the FAQ on the OpenCandy website, the installer queries the company server for a list of recommended apps for the user location, operating system and language and checks those against the installed applications on the system and prerequisites that those programs may depend on.

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