ThatFeelIKnowIt

Thank you so much for confirming!

Yes, a response would be very nice... however it appears to be a false positive based on the fact that numerous other people are having this issue.

That is totally reasonable. I will wait for a response during the week, thank you.

Hello Malwarebytes staff, can we please have a response on this? Thank you.

https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-nwjs Why is this being flagged as MessengerHub then?

As far I understand, that registry value is a normal value that applications sometimes use. I checked for any messengerhub values and I found none. This was literally the only value that flagged the PUP. Seems like a false positive..

Plus the user above is also experiencing the same issue, at the same time that I am. It just seems like a false positive no?

@ Gt-truth, I understand that it is a PUP, however I found the EXACT SAME adware on both of my devices, one of which I barely ever use. It seems like WAY too much of a coincidence that I randomly picked up the exact same adware on both devices around the exact same time....

AdwCleaner detected this on both of my Windows 10 computers. Seems like too much of a coincidence that I would have had adware on both of my devices. One of them I barely ever even use. Could this be a false positive? Log Below: # ------------------------------- # Malwarebytes AdwCleaner 8.0.4.0 # ------------------------------- # Build: 04-03-2020 # Database: 2020-05-13.1 (Cloud) # Support: https://www.malwarebytes.com/support # # ------------------------------- # Mode: Scan # ------------------------------- # Start: 05-14-2020 # Duration: 00:00:11 # OS: Windows 10 Pro # Scanned: 31864 # Detected: 1 ***** [ Services ] ***** No malicious services found. ***** [ Folders ] ***** No malicious folders found. ***** [ Files ] ***** No malicious files found. ***** [ DLL ] ***** No malicious DLLs found. ***** [ WMI ] ***** No malicious WMI found. ***** [ Shortcuts ] ***** No malicious shortcuts found. ***** [ Tasks ] ***** No malicious tasks found. ***** [ Registry ] ***** PUP.Optional.MessengerHub HKCU\Software\nwjs ***** [ Chromium (and derivatives) ] ***** No malicious Chromium entries found. ***** [ Chromium URLs ] ***** No malicious Chromium URLs found. ***** [ Firefox (and derivatives) ] ***** No malicious Firefox entries found. ***** [ Firefox URLs ] ***** No malicious Firefox URLs found. ***** [ Hosts File Entries ] ***** No malicious hosts file entries found. ***** [ Preinstalled Software ] ***** No Preinstalled Software found. 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