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PUA Alerts

The following new PUA's (a Potentially Unwanted Application) have been been reported to our PUA section.

This category classifies applications which do not display malicious behavior yet, for example, install without seeking affirmative consent for installation - the user may not realise, due to the nature of the installation procedure deployed by the vendor (e.g. ActiveX download, bundling etc), that an application has actually been installed. The category is also used to classify other applications which, in a certain context, can be wanted or unwanted.

For example, there are many legitimate applications, such as remote administration tools, packet sniffers, keyloggers, port scanners, FTP servers etc. which are used responsibly by a system administrator in a corporate environment. When detected, it is likely the system administrator will choose to add them to the ignore list since these applications, in this context, are wanted.

These same tools can be misused and installed surreptitiously on, for example, a home users machine in order to gain unauthorized access, exploit, monitor or carry out some type of malicious activity. To detect the same applications as unwanted, in this context, is correct. If the user was unaware of the presence of these same apps, they can opt to remove them.

If you have found this file on your computer and are not sure what to do, please don't hesitate to Contact Us for more advice.

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