Malwarebytes gets tougher on PUPs

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Bonjour,

Malwarebytes gets tougher on PUPs

Several years ago, I blogged that we would be increasing how aggressive we would be in detecting Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) and our fantastic malware intelligence and research teams have delivered on that promise. Last year, we removed approximately 500 million traces of PUPs per month!

In response, a lot of the PUP developers are making efforts to circumvent our criteria and continue distributing their damaging software to users. This is why we are getting even more critical about what we call a PUP, and what we are going to be detecting and removing from user systems.

Earlier this morning, Malwarebytes posted a revision to the criteria that we use to identify PUPs. These changes are to help continue that fight against products and companies that scam users on the Internet.

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Les nouveaux critères de reconnaissance des PUPs
https://www.malwarebytes.com/pup/

Here are some of the criteria we use:

- obtrusive, misleading, or deceptive advertising, branding, or search practices
   
- excessive or deceptive distribution, affiliate or opt-out bundling practices

- aggressive or deceptive behavior especially surrounding purchasing or licensing

- unwarranted, unnecessary, excessive, illegitimate, or deceptive modifications of system settings or configuration (including browser settings and toolbars)

- difficulty uninstalling or removing the software

- predominantly negative feedback or ratings from the user community

- diminishes user experience

- other practices generally accepted as riskware, scareware, adware, greyware, or otherwise commonly unwanted software by the user community

[hyunkel30]

 

On ne peut que féliciter ce type de politique anti-PUP

Néanmoins cela n'améliorera pas la source du problème.
Pour cela deux pistes selon moi :

- L'éducation de l'utilisateur

- Les sanctions vis à vis des plateformes de distribution (site repackant et distribuant)