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Giovy77

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  1. Oh yes, I totally agree with your new policy and I'm also aware of the risk to install crapware usually bundled with freeware, but this should only regard those free apps out there that automatically install unwanted third party tools (toolbars, plugins etc...) without users' consent. But if users are given an option to decline them, why consider this as Adware? As for the OpenCandy issue have a look at here: http://www.opencandy.com/faqs Cheers.
  2. Finally how about the second adware detection concerning the program "Systweak Advanced System Protector"? Is PUP.Optional.AdvancedSystemProtector.A similar to OpenCandy??
  3. Ok, many thanks for your clarification. Now my question is: in practical terms, what kind of impact OPENCANDY may have in my system? I'm asking you this (probably silly) question, because VT report shows that only Malwarebyte and ESET detected this kind of Adware in the GomPlayer .exe file and I wonder why!! After all there are tons of FREEWARE out there giving you an option to install additional recommended software during installation, aren't there?? This is a way for helping developers keep their apps FREE of charge by displaying app recommendations (ads) around their downloads, but honestly I can't see anything wrong in this since users are usually given an option to accept or decline them. And it looks like OpenCandy does not permanently install anything on PC users even when they accept app recommendations, since it's designed to run periodically but only for a few days in order to verify if the recommended apps were activated or not and then it deletes itself automatically. But to clear things once and for all, it's also possible to clean any possible OpenCandy hidden remnant traces sitting in users' system, by using this FREE app: http://oclink.us/occleanup
  4. Hello! Since last week Malwarebyte's antimalware detected "GOM PLAYER" and "Systweak Advanced System Protector" as malware (PUP.Optional.OpenCandy; PUP.Optional.AdvancedSystemProtector.A) I believe that these warnings are just False Positive detections as they both refer to very popular and reliable software. Here is the VirusTotal report concerning GOMPLAYER: https://www.virustotal.com/it/file/3033d2ed9355236eb0446145c88539cde72399e0e8a51084d40b1b3c1e2d8334/analysis So I would be very grateful if you could please fix this issue as soon as possible. I enclosed two logfiles (first scan + "mbam.exe /developer" scan) plus the GOMPLAYER exe file as requested. Waiting for your feedback. Cheers. mbam-log-2013-09-02 (23-52-22).txt mbam-log-2013-09-03 (06-03-30).txt
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