AdwCleaner vs MBAM (PUP...)

I thought I'd give AdwCleaner a try. MBAM had detected a slight malware
problem. PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A. It wasn't caught. Any suggestions?
What are R0, R1, and S0.

"W. eWatson" wrote in message
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I thought I'd give AdwCleaner a try. MBAM had detected a slight malware
problem. PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A. It wasn't caught. Any suggestions?
What are R0, R1, and S0.



For PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A

1: AdwCleaner

2: MBAM

3: HitmanPro (if necessary)

HitmanPro (30 day free trial)
http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro


And possibly, reset your browsers. For IE:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...lorer-settings
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~Bruce

W. eWatson wrote:

I thought I'd give AdwCleaner a try. MBAM ...

MBAM freeware or payware version?

... had detected a slight malware problem. PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A.

Doesn't MBAM give the location (path and file) for the PUP? That might
indicate if it is an unwanted or covert PUP or something that you
actually chose to install. Most anti-malware programs still list many
of the Nirsoft utilities as PUPs but *I* installed those because *I*
want to use them. PUP means *probably* or *potentially* unwanted
program. That's a guess and the user may actually want the program. It
is still up to you to decide if the target is really unwanted. You gave
no path and file for the PUP.

http://www.malwareremovalguides.info...-crossrider-a/

PUPs aren't always bad. You have to decide. That MBAM says there is a
PUP present doesn't make it so. MBAM looks in the registry to detect
programs but those might've been long ago uninstalled so what MBAM sees
are registry remnants. If MBAM is using a registry entry to detect a
PUP, presumably that registry entry (or others that are dependent upon
that one) will specify a path to an executable file or DLL (a library of
function from which one can be called by a parent program, like
rundll32.exe).

It wasn't caught.

Then how did you know about the PUP? How did you know it was called
Crossrider PUP?

What are R0, R1, and S0.

Three 2-character strings that mean nothing outside of their context.

On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:47:28 -0800, "W. eWatson"
wrote:

I thought I'd give AdwCleaner a try. MBAM had detected a slight malware
problem. PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A. It wasn't caught. Any suggestions?
What are R0, R1, and S0.


R0, R1, and R03, ETC are usually rar file extensions used for Split
Multi-volume RAR compressed WinRAR archives.

http://www.file-extensions.org/winrar-file-extensions




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Larry Stark wrote:
On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:47:28 -0800, "W. eWatson"
wrote:

I thought I'd give AdwCleaner a try. MBAM had detected a slight malware
problem. PUP.Optional.CrossRider.A. It wasn't caught. Any suggestions?
What are R0, R1, and S0.


R0, R1, and R03, ETC are usually rar file extensions used for Split
Multi-volume RAR compressed WinRAR archives.

http://www.file-extensions.org/winrar-file-extensions


They are portions of the Adwcleaner report file.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...f-ae582b8588fc

Adwcleaner has a scan and a clean option. You scan first,
to see if there is an issue or not.

Paul