{"id":14675,"date":"2013-12-31T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2013\/12\/31\/how-to-remove-pups\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:00:47","slug":"how-to-remove-pups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2013\/12\/31\/how-to-remove-pups\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove PUPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) is a sort of malware not so dangerous but annoying that tipically open ads during browser surfing or redirect the browser to specific pages (it&#8217;s also called hijack) or install toolbars.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful when you install normal free software, generally they are installed with them. Many of them can be unchecked during installation (the so called special offers), an example screenshot below<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-xJIzYvq-9sY\/TxR21mM4ymI\/AAAAAAAACIc\/WDlAesk15Ac\/s1600\/blekko_cnet.jpg\" width=\"431\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other just install &#8220;silently&#8221; so the user doesn&#8217;t notice.<\/p>\n<p>You can manually remove them by uninstalling in Windows but some of them aren&#8217;t listed or however still remain some tracks even if uninstalled.<br \/>\nSo you must use specific software for malware\/adaware\/spyware scan and removal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malwarebytes.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malwarebytes Anti-Malware<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/dl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spybot Search and Destroy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/download\/adwcleaner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AdwCleaner<\/a> e <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/download\/junkware-removal-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JRT<\/a> do the work very well.<\/p>\n<p>These programs search suspect files and PUPs related registry keys and remove them. Once you have cleaned and restarted system the PUPs should not be longer in your system.<\/p>\n<p>Recently i taken the PUP Nation Zoom, even if it has been correctly removed by the programs cited it always opened nationzoom.com page every time i started browser. Then i discovered that the PUP has changed all the browser shortcuts (Start Menu, Desktop, Taskbar) by adding\/appending a string<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/nation-zoom-hijack.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To be more safe i also wanna suggest to use <a href=\"http:\/\/unchecky.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unchecky<\/a>, when it&#8217;s active it will automatically unckek the checks of special offers when you install a free software that contains them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) is a sort of malware not so dangerous but annoying that tipically open ads during browser surfing or redirect the browser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3484,3485,3487],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-en","category-tutorials-en","category-windows-en"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/software-en\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Software<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/tutorials-en\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tutorials<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/windows-en\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Windows<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Software<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tutorials<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Windows<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 13 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on December 31, 2013","modified":"Updated on October 2, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on December 31, 2013 3:25 pm","modified":"Updated on October 2, 2018 5:00 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}