Unchecky malware8/31/2023 Unchecky offers no 100% protection against unwanted software installations. It will come to action whenever you install a software program on your PC. The application itself runs silently as a service on the system. In short, Unchecky does two things: it warns you when program installers include unwanted offers, and it will pick the custom installation option and uncheck boxes for you automatically. If you get an accept or decline screen, it is you who has to make the decision as Unchecky won't do anything here. It is very likely that it won't detect all custom installation options with 100% accuracy, and what may weight even more, it cannot make decisions for you that require you to click on buttons. To avoid such PUPs, use either portable version of CCleaner or try unchecky.It needs to be noted that while this works well most of the time, it is not something that you put all your faith in. Some other German blogger who tested the installer during the last hours, has been offered Google Chrome browser as PUP. Down in the lower left corner of the installer windows is a checkbox offering to install Avast Antivirus. I was greeted by the installer dialog shown above. I then downloades Pirifom CCleaner V5.37 installer and gave it a try. Now I noticed this Techdows article, pointing out, that CCleaner installer is shipped with PUP offers. But none of my blog readers confirmed this observation. After publishing this article, I received a user comment, claiming, that AVAST antivirus has been installed with CCleaner. I don't (like and) use the tool, and I'm warning you to be cautious, especially since the September 2017 incident where the software was shipped with malware (see my blog post Autsch: CCleaner has been infected with malware). But Pirifom was purchased by AVAST, an antivirus vendor, last summer. The program CCleaner from Piriform is quite popular to clean up Windows.
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