Has The Antivirus Industry Gone Mad?!

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"We have seen a concerning trend that is about to spiral out of control: Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are further on the rise. What's even more concerning is how they are spreading. After big vendors as Oracle (Java) and Microsoft (Bing and Skype) started bundling, now antivirus vendors have joined the game. We did research on some of the most popular PUP practices among the freeware antivirus vendors, and the results are quite disturbing.

PUPs want to get on your computer to make money off of you"

http://blog.emsisoft.com/2015/01/17/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/

Yes (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-03-11 05:49 (#4PKA)

This is not new. They tripped over the edge of sanity years ago. Next question.
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