It was first done so only on the Enterprise versions, but now, on Home editions as well. In fact it's a strong stance on Microsoft's side to flag all torrent clients as PUA. In order to avoid installing such PUA / PUP, you have to always install the main software by choosing the advanced/custom options." ( The setup package is clean, so it must be a false positive on Microsoft's side. "A PUA / PUP (potentially unwanted application / potentially unwanted program) is a software that may be unwanted on the PC and sometimes comes bundled with freeware software. "Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) are unwanted software programs that come bundled in legitimate free software programs as a package." ( us.) Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat. The only details I can get, are from Microsoft's malware encyclopedia, which is not really helpful: Tried redownloading 4.3.3 from the official site, now the installer was flagged as well. I had the version 4.3.3, so I installed an older 4.3.1 and immediately quarantined as well. With our free version or Ninite Pro Classic not even Ninite is installed.Īnd, of course, we do not include any form of malware or spyware.Today, my qBittorrent was quarantined by Microsoft Defender because " This program has potentially unwanted behaviour.". This is transmitted when Ninite gets the latest app configurations from our server.Īll we do is install the apps you choose.
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