Avast Totally Missed Conduit Search Installation !

Downloaded Auslogics Disk Defrag yesterday & yes I did unceck the other options they wanted to install. While downloading Avast did not catch the Conduit Search at all. I heard that this malware has been known for quite awhile now. Luckily I had system restore to take it off my computer. My computer is fine now But, why did Avast not catch this PUP ??? I even ran a full scan & a boot scan & nothing showed up…!

Conduit search is a toolbar and not necessarily a PUP.
Do you have PUP’s enabled?

edit: The avast browser cleanup tool should have caught it.

I dont like to use Browser cleanup as it removes other things I want to keep. PUPS were not enabled but I have them enabled now. Thanks for the advice on PUPS as I thought they were enabled by default!

Once the browser cleanup has finished you have the choice as to what
is actually deleted/diasbled. PUP’s are disabled by default since many users don’t
know which PUP’s are good and which PUP"s are bad.

3 pages of observations and discussion
Warning about Auslogic Defrag Free.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=358815