Comments on: Want Instagram on your PC? Watch out for PUPs https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/7025/want-instagram-on-your-pc-watch-out-for-pups/ Straight-talking security advice from the Malware Experts Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:11:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kael. https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/7025/want-instagram-on-your-pc-watch-out-for-pups/#comment-73965 Tue, 13 May 2014 09:26:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=7025#comment-73965 In reply to Andrew Inspired.

ANDREW – It was Google Chrome, not a virus (I scanned it with two top AV programs and then used it briefly) and it certainly came in with my AV updates. I am currently awaiting the comments from my AV provider.

LORIE LEE – I totally agree – it is difficult, however, to check something that one can hardly see (blame eyesight) because it is almost invisible.

Kael.

]]> By: Andrew Inspired https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/7025/want-instagram-on-your-pc-watch-out-for-pups/#comment-73939 Tue, 13 May 2014 06:13:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=7025#comment-73939 In reply to Kael..

Kael that in NOT Google Chrome, its either Google Chrome you did NOT download from Google’s site rapped with malware or perhaps a virus.

]]> By: Lorie Lee https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/7025/want-instagram-on-your-pc-watch-out-for-pups/#comment-73598 Tue, 13 May 2014 02:46:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=7025#comment-73598 One of our biggest computer/smartphone rules in my home is “No downloading ANYTHING without letting Mom read the checkboxes first”!! It’s saved our devices many times. And a big thankyou to Emsisoft for great mal ware! My computer was infected with a browser hijacker that I couldn’t get rid of, and you guys did the job first time around! Very easy to use too. Thanks again!

]]> By: Legend https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/7025/want-instagram-on-your-pc-watch-out-for-pups/#comment-73130 Mon, 12 May 2014 20:40:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=7025#comment-73130 A small hint from me to those who want to boost their defence against PUPs. It’s a small free program called ” Unchecky “. Just Google it , and see it on youtube in action.

]]> By: Kael. https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/7025/want-instagram-on-your-pc-watch-out-for-pups/#comment-72958 Mon, 12 May 2014 19:13:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=7025#comment-72958 Several times Google Chrome has installed itself, by stealth, on my system and it can be difficult to do a total removal – I actually had to use, XP Add/Remove Programs, two registry cleaning programs as well as a manual search/deletion in order to clean my system. As far as I am now concerned GC is, and always will be, a PUP and Google, as a company, is definitely suspect. I finally discovered that when my (generally respected) AV program updates I am given the option to ‘Reboot now’ or ‘Reboot later’ in order to cmplete the update. At the bottom of that page, in very, very faint, grey print is some small text and a small box which, if not unchecked, instructs the computer to reboot and also install Google Chrome – this to me is about as unethical as it can get.

Kael

]]> By: Dontrell M'BuluBulu https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/7025/want-instagram-on-your-pc-watch-out-for-pups/#comment-72774 Mon, 12 May 2014 17:39:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=7025#comment-72774 Most people don’t read the fine print, so THANKS EMSISOFT!!

]]> By: Legend https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/7025/want-instagram-on-your-pc-watch-out-for-pups/#comment-72073 Mon, 12 May 2014 13:11:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=7025#comment-72073 It is so true, that a potentially unwanted program, can cause a true havoc on a pc, or any other digital device,… that can be as damaging as malware. What I expect as a paying customer from an Av vendor,… is that it will inform me if there is more than one program bundle in a download. So that I at least have a chance, to opt out form the download, so I can choose another download site. It is nice to see, that Emsisoft take that part as seriously as their heuristics detection. Because I truly don’t think that a user that has downloaded a PUP, that easily can contain 2 or 3 more potentially unwanted programs in the wrapped download, will distinguish between PUP or malware, but see this, as an actually malware infection.

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