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ADWCleaner triggers Pup.optional.legacy on domains containing viewpoint


Ivo-Triple

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Hi,

I'm the maintainer of mobileviewpoint.com. We recently got a report from a visitor stating that malwarebytes ADWCleaner warns about PUP.optional.legacy on this domain. I scanned the website and was able to reproduce the issue on several windows-10 machines. I started blocking scripts and content using a proxy  to determine which file triggers the warning. Eventually I was rewriting the domain to a simple webserver serving a textfile, still got the warnings. The domain is not on blocklists. I experimented with the host-file and started testing with non existing TLD's and several variations of this domain, my conclusion was that ADWCleaner triggers this warning when using Edge on domains containing "viewpoint".. Seems to me this is unwanted behavior resulting in false positives.

Malwarebytes; could you take a look at this?

Ivo

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