Basically, all these programs advertise themselves as useful for the user and the computer, but often they simply take up space on the hard drive, slow down the computer, bother with constant notifications and pop-ups and cause browser redirects. We have repeatedly reported about them: SAntivirus Realtime Protection Lite, Easy Mac Care, Segurazo anti-virus, IObyte System Care, and so on. Many programs use the distribution method similar to Adaware Web Companion, and also change the computer settings without the explicit permission of the user.
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For this reason, many users installing Adaware Web Companion accidentally encounter the fact that their home page and search engine have been changed, and since this program did this automatically, users consider such changes to be unwanted or even harmful.ġ3 security vendors flagged Web Companion installer as malicious At the same time, the user also had the opportunity to leave the browser settings unchanged, but this mode had to be selected, by default it was chosen to change the home page and search engine to Bing. At the time of research, Adaware Web Companion suggested changing the home page and search engine to Bing, Yahoo or Yandex. Although the program asks for consent, many users do not read the terms of rules, and also do not pay attention to what the program asks for during installation and thus allow the program to do whatever it wants. When installing Adaware Web Companion, it asks permission to change the browser settings. Most often, such programs are installed inadvertently or accidentally.
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Potentially unwanted program is a type of software that users consider ‘unwanted’. Nevertheless, some security researchers and antivirus software classify this program as PUP – potentially unwanted program. According to its description, this program is designed to make your environment faster and safer. P.S I am not really informed on this subject, so sorry if there were any stupid question, I am just dead worried.Adaware Web Companion is a program developed by Adaware (previously named Lavasoft).
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Oh and is it normal that I just had an " An app default was reset" so many often at the same time maybe someone is changing something to my laptop ? Or I am being paranoid ? I posted a picture downĭo you guys think that by the time I did this scan I might have been already hacked like browsing history, passwords and so forth ? I don't have BitTorent installed on my OS. And is there a chance that those 4 quarantined files could just come back w/o me doing that?Ĭouple of days ESET required me to restart my laptop in order to complete the update.
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After the initial scan( which found these 16 pup's) and and cleaned/quarantine them I run the scan couple of times and It was clean, I also downloaded the free version of malwarebytes and the scan showed nothing( does it mean that I am clean ).
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One site states that MSIL/WebCompanion virus is detected by antivirus software since it is a threat to your PC or web browse so how come it only detected it as a pup ? Another thing isn't ESET suppose to be doing this automatic scans ? Also my System cleaner seemed to be changed not in a default mode. I made my digging and it basically says its either a virus/malware. So I've decided today to run a scan manually and to my surprise it found 16 pup's, most of them were harmless I guess, since it only quarantined 4 of them which were those MSIL/WebCompanion.A.