It’s not just malware that causes device performance issues. Although they do not represent malicious activity or contain suspicious code, potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) may compromise user privacy or weaken a computer’s security configuration.
Adware (advertising display software), browser toolbars, download managers are considered PUAs. By operating without direct permission from the system administrator, PUAs compromise a operating system performance by running background processes – which slows down the device and uses the memory capacity that could be used to give more efficiency to other applications.
To avoid this type of application, one must use an active Anti-virus or anti-malware solution, with the option of blocking unwanted applications. Blockbit’s Intelligence Lab has a catalog of more than 2000 of these applications, providing intelligence for all our security solutions.
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