ByteFence PUP
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I have noticed recently that my desktop seems a little slower, so today I scanned it with Malwarebytes. It found 7 instances of ByteFence applications on my machine. It lists ByteFence as a "Potentially Unwanted Program" (PUP), not as malware. Apparently this particular pest gets onto your machine by being bundled with other applications. Does anybody here know which software carries ByteFence as additional payload when it is installed, so one can avoid it in future? By the way: Malwarebytes apparently did get rid of ByteFence.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I have noticed recently that my desktop seems a little slower, so today I scanned it with Malwarebytes. It found 7 instances of ByteFence applications on my machine. It lists ByteFence as a "Potentially Unwanted Program" (PUP), not as malware. Apparently this particular pest gets onto your machine by being bundled with other applications. Does anybody here know which software carries ByteFence as additional payload when it is installed, so one can avoid it in future? By the way: Malwarebytes apparently did get rid of ByteFence.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Anything that anyone gets paid to install alongside their products is malware.
Cornelius Henning wrote:
Malwarebytes apparently did get rid of ByteFence
Sorted. So just run MB, every now and then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Anything that anyone gets paid to install alongside their products is malware.
Cornelius Henning wrote:
Malwarebytes apparently did get rid of ByteFence
Sorted. So just run MB, every now and then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have noticed recently that my desktop seems a little slower, so today I scanned it with Malwarebytes. It found 7 instances of ByteFence applications on my machine. It lists ByteFence as a "Potentially Unwanted Program" (PUP), not as malware. Apparently this particular pest gets onto your machine by being bundled with other applications. Does anybody here know which software carries ByteFence as additional payload when it is installed, so one can avoid it in future? By the way: Malwarebytes apparently did get rid of ByteFence.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
I typically cancel install as soon as there is any whiff of an installer containing bundled "software". The upshot? 95% of the time, the installer can be cracked open with your archive software of choice and the real installer extracted. I find it's the only way to be (reasonably) sure you know what's getting installed. Maybe this should be a feature of virus scanners? Try to unzip the file, and if it finds multiple executables, flags it as potential bundleware? Maybe also provide a list of the files, so you can tell the difference between true crapware and something that simply shipped with a redist? Dunno, seems useful to me.
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I have noticed recently that my desktop seems a little slower, so today I scanned it with Malwarebytes. It found 7 instances of ByteFence applications on my machine. It lists ByteFence as a "Potentially Unwanted Program" (PUP), not as malware. Apparently this particular pest gets onto your machine by being bundled with other applications. Does anybody here know which software carries ByteFence as additional payload when it is installed, so one can avoid it in future? By the way: Malwarebytes apparently did get rid of ByteFence.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Have a look at UnCkecky. If you install that, it will automatically uncheck any other software bundled with new software you are installing. That prevents the unwanted ones from being installed automatically.