Does pup detection work?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I enabled PUP detection in avast and installed this program to test it out
http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/

it contains delta search adware that hijacks my browser’s search

even a qucikscan with pup enabled it did not detect this

is this feature broken?

adwcleaner fixes everything, but I want realtime protection

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yes … plenty of PUP detections reported here in the forum … just try a forum search

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how does avast not catch delta search/babylon then?
i installed that delta crap again with avast enabled for PUP on realtime and on the quickscan, neither found anything

virus total https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/fb6b1171776554a808c62f4045f5167603f70bf7611de64311ece0624b365397/analysis/

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Use avast browser cleanup tool.

Open avast user interface via desktop>>tools>> browser cleanup ;D

Some of this toolbar crap is actually dependent on how each AV company’s engines classifies them.Some call them PUP/Malware and some call them safe.

With the inbuilt browser cleanup tool,avast can help you out with those toolbars and their removal leaving the AV part alone.

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All the toolbars should be classified as PUP. Especially garbage from Babylon.

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Babylon has been out of avast and many other AV products classifications.

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I can confirm that PUP detection does work on avast.

About 2 weeks ago, I first ran an MBAM scan on my sister’s computer. It found a little over 200 PUPs.
Then I ran a SAS scan and it found around 70 PUPs.
By that time, I figured all the possible PUPs in that computer would have already been found and removed.

But, I then ran an avast scan and it still found I believe 13 more PUPs.

Then last week all those 3 Apps again found more PUPs and a few Trojans.

Yeah, that computer is a mess. While my sister doesn’t use it at all, my brother-in-law, his daughter and a niece of mine do use it and they obviously have some very unsafe, unwise and ill-advised browsing habits. They’re App installation happy and are the type who just click on Next Next Next without reading anything.

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i mean i could have easily looked for a fix like adwcleaner or avast’s manual cleaner

but i just wanted something in realtime.

not that my browsing habbits are bad, but sometimes if you install a program and deselect the adware, it still gets installed and I get anoyyed