![]() These kinds of detections are optional and it is up to the user to decide if they wish to have us flag/remove items detected as PUP (there's a drop-down menu under settings where the user may select how Malwarebytes treats PUPs an option not provided for actual malware since PUPs aren't really a malicious threat, just a potential annoyance and/or may be undesirable to the user). There are many reasons for classifying something as PUP, but if we see something as truly "bad" (or "mal" taken from the Latin "malus") then we would detect it instead as malware (the "mal" in the word "malware" stands for "malicious" and the "ware" stands for software thus the meaning of the word "malware" is "malicious software") but in this case, as with all PUPs, we simply classify it as potentially unwanted due to the criteria we use to define what is and is not PUP. ![]() The reason we detect anything as PUP has more to do with whether users find the software desirable and worth having installed, especially if a piece of software comes bundled with other software and/or uses aggressive/borderline deceptive advertising tactics etc. I don't think it's necessarily "bad", but I don't think any PUP is necessarily bad either. So the voice of the users more than anything else is what guides us now with regards to the PUP classification. you and users like you) often know what software you do (and especially do not) want on your computers better than any independent team of researchers ever could. So we listened to our users/customers and changed how we do things to be even more aggressive (at the time we were already one of the most aggressive anti-PUP security vendors in the entire industry) against what our community of users and individuals across the web as a whole consider to be PUP and started using these user opinions to determine what should and should not be classified as PUP since they (i.e. Getting so much feedback from our users, most of whom wanted us to be far more aggressive with regards to our definition of what is PUP caused us to reevaluate how we categorized items as PUP and determined that, since the very definition of PUP is "Potentially Unwanted Program", that the opinions that mattered most were those of our users and customers, not necessarily some specific set of criteria that we were using to define what was and was not PUP. For the longest time we got almost constant complaints that Malwarebytes wasn't detecting/removing X where X was some software/add-on which didn't quite check enough boxes to be considered PUP under our old policy. Thanks for the kind words of encouragement, I'm glad that you appreciate our new stance on PUPs. Endpoint Detection & Response for Servers
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