DavidR
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@ tjunk
It is also an indication that you have changed the default scan settings or created a custom scan in which you opted to check for PUPs.
This can as you found return some results that you aren’t expecting (like that one) so you have to be knowledgeable about what is installed on your system and when you get a [PUP] detection you investigate, google the file name and location, etc. and that should give you an idea of what the file is for. From this information you should be able determine if this is in fact an possibly unwanted program or not.
Or you could change it back to the default of not checking for PUPs in on-demand scans, personally I feel this is the way to go.
On-demand scans by their nature are for the most part going to be scanning files that are otherwise dormant or inert. If they weren’t dormant or inert then the on-access scanner, the File System Shield would scan them before they are allowed to run and by default that does scan for PUPs.