Dell System Detect Vulnerability now classified as a PUP

They post these articles and then never look at them again. Good luck. You’re on your own.

Good work. Shame MalwareBytes can’t help with all pre-install software and mark as PUP.

Hey Scratchifier, If you’ve done a scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and you didn’t get this:PUP.Vulnerable.DellSystemDetect then that means either you don’t have it installed or your version isn’t one of the vulnerable ones so you are good to go. NoScript doesn’t matter here because the actual Dell System Checker program is accepting HTTP traffic, bypassing the browser.

Yes excellent. Malwarebytes did remove it and thus my PC rebooted to a black screen not once but twice. I had to unplug my pc and restart “windows normally” .

I would have to disagree. 😛

Hey Pullmanwa, can you let us know your PC specs? Which OS are you using? It would also be really great if you could send us the log from MBAM when it removed the file. Thanks!

Yay I don’t have it 😛

I’ve just had this detected on my laptop – which is a 6910p Compaq – why/how could that happen?
I’ve quarantined it (the only option) which, I hope, means it is removed.

Win 7 Pro, Serv Pk1, Optiplex 9020, i5-4570, 3.2Ghz, 4GB ram, 64Bit,

If it’s not in the “uninstall a program” menu, that means that it’s not installed on the system.

Just to let you guys know, the crappy Windows 8/8.1/10 OS’s are more vulnerable to this threat than Windows Vista/7.

Do you have a source for that information? I will update the blog post if so.

Actually, Win 8 and above have greater anti-malware features built into the operating system, making them far less likely to get infected by the same malware we normally see targeting Win 7 or XP. You might see more new threats going after Win 8 users because it’s a new market for the bad guys.

This is silly, dell doesn’t make any hard drives. has nothing to do with dell

It doesn’t offer scheduled scans.

To me it does. And Windows 8 is garbage!

I hate Windows 8/8.1/10 because metro is stupid and UUUGGLLYYY!!!!
I miss the longhorn interface… Ahh… Those were the days.

+TacoMan3o3 Sorry bud you have got it all wrong. I’m not challenging your competence, or trying to insult you, but your knowledge of operating systems is way out, and weak, as to your understanding of what they have as securities and protection.

Firstly Windows Defender (WD) has been available in Windows O/S since the Vista days, and along with a wishy washy version of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). And they got better and better in Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. So correctly as to what other posters are trying to tell you, the version in Windows 8.1 is superior to Windows 8 or Windows 7, contrary to your posts. And in fact when you install MSE into Windows 7 (not installed by default until one runs updates such as SP1 and further web based updates etc), it activate WD, as it is not switched on by default, thus making W7 weaker initially against malware threats. And yese it is an active scanner, but it is of no use today against the very powerful malware now in the wild on the Internet. So to put your trust in WD ans MSE alone is totally foolish on the part of a user. I have posted further up as to good tools to use along with MalwareBytes, to help keep your system clean and protected. Those such as Kaspersky, BitDefender, MalwareBytes, ESET etc are all good products to use, NO MATTER WHAT Windows O/S you use.

Again if you knew what you were doing, you can easily disable the Modern Metro “Start” screen of W8/8.1, and with a few well documented tweaks, return the boot up of W8/8.1 to it’s classic screen that looks like W7. Plus you can install a freeware add-on called Classic Shell to make the “Start” orb look and function exactly like W7. So don’t slate something until you have read up properly and tried all of the alternatives. Your responses about W8/8.1 have currently been baseless.

My 7 year old dell is still running the same hardware just fine.

ahahahahahaha.

that is all.