WinPup
Category: Cookie
Risk:
Low Risk
* Low risk threats pose a very low risk or no immediate danger to your computer or your privacy, however these types of applications may profile user online habits, but only according to specific privacy policies stated in the applications End-User License. These types of threats generally borderline on being a threat to being a standard application that has a complex license agreement that you knowingly installed.
Description: None
Alias: None
Signatures:
at type: Cookie - Cookies are small files that are created by your web browser when you visit sites on the Internet. They can be used to track your visits to certain web sites and can provide companies with information about frequency of visits and other profile information. The user is usually not aware that their surfing habits are being tracked.
Advice: Remove
Threat risk: Low Risk
Low risk threats pose a very low risk or no immediate danger to your computer or your privacy, however these types of applications may profile user online habits, but only according to specific privacy policies stated in the applications End-User License. These types of threats generally borderline on being a threat to being a standard application that has a complex license agreement that you knowingly installed.
Description: Winpup is an adware component that generates large amounts of pop-up advertisements.
Winpup, also known as Comms and TROJ_WINPUP.B, open pop up windows. Winpup is bundled with Free History Cleaner. Winpup renames itself each time the process is started, making it both hard to find and remove.
The Trojan copies itself to the Windows system folder as a randomly named EXE and creates registry entries under the following key so that it runs during the Windows startup process
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