In reply to "PeggLeg" who wrote the following:
> Hi RIB. Would you mind me butting in here and asking what is a "PUP"?
> I've never seen that before and that is what is going on with mine
> (slowing). I'm on a Mac...an old one, but on system 10.
> Thanks for any info.
>
> PeggLeg
>
> In article <4FMOx.307032$6i5.51335@fx28.fr7>, RIB <rib@rack.com> wrote:
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > I used to think the same as you Spike But I wouldn't even entertain
> > Kaspersky. I
> > now use a combination of Avast Free and Malwarebytes The latter sped up my
> > computer considerably due to the amount of PUP's it found - all of which
> > tend
> > to
> > take up resources and slow things down. Avast has the lowest false positives
> > of
> > any antivirus i've tried so far. I couldn't move for em with Norton.
> >
> > You could download a lovely little programme called ADWCleaner and run that
> > every now and again. It won't catch quite as many PUP's as Malwarebytes but
> > it
> > comes close. It's also pretty good with viruses too.
> >
> > The problem with Sandboxie used on it's own is that it will happily run
> > PUP's
> > but it won't tell you anything about them.
> >
> > RIB.
> >
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Hi Peggleg, I've been following your nautical threads with Spike with some
interest. Very informative :-)
PUP's are "potentially unwanted programmes" and are a kind of backdoor malware
that can and do install themselves on your computer on the back of so called
"legit" software. IMO - any programme that allows this kind of S*** on your
computer is NOT legit but it happens all too frequently.
I too have a Mac using using osX and I don't see much of it on there but then
again I hardly ever go on line with it.
This URL might be of interest to you though -
http://formac.informer.com/adwcleaner
Regards,
RIB.
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