AdGuard version 2.0.13.
MalwaeBytes found and deleted opencandy.
OpenCandy is not malware but a PUP that comes bundled with some free software you installed, and most likely because you did not use custom install
As I recall, the old Avast AdBlocker (from version 8.x) was “powered by AdBlock Plus”… if that’s the case, users who wish to have an ad-blocker can simply download/install AdBlock Plus [or one of the alternative AdBlockers of their preference].
There is no point for avast to add more “bloat” to its basic anti-virus protection, which is all many users are looking for from it.
There is in browser extension.
Avast doesn’t need to add more bloat within it’s program.
There’s plenty of ad blockers that do the job without any issues.
I don’t know where you came up with that number ??? the current Adguard extension is 1.0.38 and the program version is 5.10.2051.6368, I think you must have been using Adblock or something else.
There is also no opencandy component contained within any Adguard product.
@Craig Midnight is correct with the adguard version see screenshot below from mozilla addons
This is the AdGuard version I have.
My mistake, I just confirmed it with Adguard Techs as I though that might have been a beta version :
I also discovered 2.0.14 is the latest
@Craig you better give midnight a kiss on her head otherwise she’ll wack you with her broom 
That aint gonna happen…unless she flies to Australia on that broom ;D
Let me guess that old TV show call Samantha Stephens ‘Bewitched’ ;D
Agree very much with this, you need to watch ‘free’ software installers like a hawk and even then Open Candy can be sneaked onto your system.
Burnaware a pretty good disc burner never used to include OC in their update installer but then they suddenly decided to do so and, worse, make it non-optional. That fact was hidden away at the bottom of the TOA which I’d bet even many otherwise diligent people would have missed. A very similar story occurred with CDBurnerXP. In the later case I missed it and it got onto my machine.
Luckily it is a relatively benign PUP and easy enough to remove but it still annoyed me. I stopped updating both programs for months. I suspect a lot of other previously happy users did too because the installers/updaters now do include links specifically to an Open Candy free update installer, an option likely prompted by a deluge of complaints.
If any ‘free’ software programs I need are available at Ninite.com they’re always my first port of call when looking for adware free clean downloads. Although I don’t rely 100% on its claim to have stripped out all the unwanted elements it is a good place to start if you’re as paranoid as I am about avoiding the bad stuff.