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PUP.Vittalia

Posted: October 15, 2013

Threat Metric

Ranking: 3,784
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 8,141
First Seen: October 15, 2013
Last Seen: October 15, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

PUP.Vittalia is a potentially unwanted application/browser add-on, which may proliferate using free software downloads. PUP.Vittalia may also be categorized as an adware program, which may generate and display in-text, pop-up and search advertisements when computer users are surfing the Internet. Mostly, computer users may inadvertently install PUP.Vittalia without their consent together with freeware and shareware programs downloaded from the net on free software download websites, which use download clients for managing their freeware and shareware downloads. PUP.Vittalia may lead to the web browser slow-downs, random pop-up ads, and may cause some serious privacy issues. PUP.Vittalia may use confusing techniques to raise traffic of the certain commercial website and generate revenue from the pay-per-click methods. PUP.Vittalia installs itself on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla FireFox.

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