jimwillsher 64 Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Hi Curious why AusLogics Disk Defragmenter (portable) is flagged with win32.auslogics. I've used their software for years with no issue. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 4,601 Posted June 11, 2017 Administrators Share Posted June 11, 2017 It's not detected as malware but as a potentially unwanted application which is optional detection. You can exclude it from detection in case you want to continue using it and don't want to disable PUA detection completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimwillsher 64 Posted June 11, 2017 Author Share Posted June 11, 2017 Sure, but I'm still confused why it's a PUA. TO me, PUAs are stuff like the ASK Toolbar, things that install themselves in the background without permission, trackers, etc. Whereas Auslogic's disk defragger does exactly what it claims to do and it does it very well. And I use the Portable version from their website, which doesn't even install anything. I've unblocked it and allowed it, I'm just very surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Most Valued Members peteyt 357 Posted June 12, 2017 Most Valued Members Share Posted June 12, 2017 16 hours ago, jimwillsher said: Sure, but I'm still confused why it's a PUA. TO me, PUAs are stuff like the ASK Toolbar, things that install themselves in the background without permission, trackers, etc. Whereas Auslogic's disk defragger does exactly what it claims to do and it does it very well. And I use the Portable version from their website, which doesn't even install anything. I've unblocked it and allowed it, I'm just very surprised. Looks like other programs such as malwarebytes class it as a pua/pup. Googling it the first thing i saw claimed after unticking stuff such as instal ask it was ignored and installed. Sometimes PUAs can simply be programs that ask you during installation to instal other stuff or try during and after to get you to try their other programs. PUAs are often still useful programs to people and its down to the user to decide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimwillsher 64 Posted July 2, 2017 Author Share Posted July 2, 2017 Can someone advise me how I exclude Win32/Auslogics.F from being detected as a PuA? Every single day i'm getting alerted to the AusLogics Disk Defrag utility, which IMHO is not a PuA. So each day I choose "No action" (as opposed to Clean or Delete) and the warning goes away, until the next day. I don't reaelly want to disable PuA checks globally, but equally, I don't want to delete this utility which I do use frequently. Happy to disable via EEA 6.6 Beta or ERA 6.5. I just need to know how. Many thanks Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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