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From what I've seen the programs that are of common usage like CDBURNERXP, IMGBURN, etc, are flagged as PUPs because of the bloatware that accompanies their "setup" programs. That's why you must be careful in what you are 'Clicking' when doing the installations and make sure you completely read the screens during the installations. Once the programs are installed - Delete the SetUp programs and the PUPs will no longer show up in a scan.
Obviously that is case now but my point was that it hadn’t been so until last week. The program update concerned, for CDBurnerXP, as I said was downloaded and installed without any problem. As I also said before using it the download was manually scanned as I always do with both Malwarebytes and Avast. Neither then flagged it up as containing a PUP. Neither did my weekly system scans carried out a few days later.
It was only after the most recent Malwarebytes weekly update on Saturday 10.08.13 and the system scan I did later that day which suddenly decided to flag the CDBurnerXP update as a PUP. I’m sure it must have been the Ask.com toolbar option it included. Yet Avast did not despite being set to the highest sensitivity.
If all the program updates which contain ‘bloatware’ or specific ‘bloatware’ are now going to flagged up by Malwarebytes as PUPs it’s going to cause quite a bit of unnecessary trouble.
It’s certainly not just dodgy programs that contain ‘bloatware’, and neither CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn, could be described as such anyway, they’re actually very good programs. Things like Adobe Reader and Flash Player updates usually include an unwanted McAfee ‘security’ scan option and have in the past included Chrome installers all on by default.
In fact I can’t think of any ‘free’ program I use who’s updates don’t include at least a Chrome installer and default browser and/or homepage swap option. It is what pays for them and if you use ‘free’ versions you have to accept this and just be careful not to accidentally install something you didn’t want.
What you don’t want though is the unnecessary additional hassle of dealing with a security program which may now flag those mostly benign extras as PUPs.