Tarma Installer

PUP.Tarma Installer is a general software installation utility that, unfortunately, often is exploited to distribute and install unwanted applications. Although PUP.Tarma Installer doesn't include any intentionally hostile functions, its tendency to be found next to other PUPs, adware, browser hijackers and various low-level PC threats makes its presence on your computer a meaningful warning signal that could indicate a compromise of your PC's security. If you don't remember installing PUP.Tarma Installer or want PUP.Tarma Installer on your computer, using anti-malware products to clean up after PUP.Tarma Installer and remove any other software that PUP.Tarma Installer may have installed usually is the best choice you can make.

How One Little Program Can Be the Wellspring for Countless New Problems

PUP.Tarma Installer is a basic software-bundling and installation utility that provides features meant to help the distribution of multiple programs packaged together. PUP.Tarma Installer isn't considered a threat and doesn't try to attack your computer, but does have a long and regrettable history of assisting the distribution of adware, browser hijackers, other Potentially Unwanted Programs and some minor PC threats. Common side effects malware experts would rate as probable from PUP.Tarma Installer's payloads may include pop-up advertisements, homepage hijacks, Web page redirects to unwanted sites, Web page-injected advertisement content and a variety of system settings modified.

Traces of PUP.Tarma Installer's components often are found on PCs that have had some form of PUP.Tarma Installer-packaged software installed. This installation isn't always deliberate, and malware researchers have seen many past scenarios where PUP.Tarma Installer and related unwanted software are installed automatically or through less than perfectly honest circumstances. Free software websites with poor reputations for controlling the quality of their downloads are the most likely source of getting PUP.Tarma Installer on your PC – an infection vector that malware researchers consider just as applicable for most other Potentially Unwanted Programs.

Uninstalling the Unwanted Installer and Its Friends

Many PC security programs are able to detect PUP.Tarma Installer and the various payloads related to PUP.Tarma Installer, although the actual aliases used for PUP.Tarma Installers are fairly wide. PUP.Tarma Installer sometimes may be misidentified as a Trojan or other type of threat, but malware experts note that PUP.Tarma Installer doesn't attempt to harm your PC directly and that most PC security products have been updated to reclassify PUP.Tarma Installer simply as a PUP – a program that's undesirable but not deliberately toxic.

PUP.Tarma Installer's entire purpose is to help install other PUPs onto your computer, with symptoms and components that are extremely variable. To counter any unwanted programs installed by PUP.Tarma Installer, removing PUP.Tarma Installer and its related products should be done with anti-malware scans that are capable of detecting all unwanted and threatening software through generalized methods. Nonetheless, you will not need to bother yourself with any of this, as long as you practice safe browsing behavior and keep yourself away from download links for PUP.Tarma Installer as a basic form of online self-defense.