What is PUP.Optional.Conduit.A?

What is PUP.Optional.Conduit.A?
PUP.Optional.Conduit.A is a trojan that is not easily removed by conventional anti virus products. You will experience your anti virus informing you that PUP.Optional.Conduit.A has been detected but you will be unable to remove it after scanning and rebooting your computer a few times.

PUP.Optional.Conduit.A has many variations. The common one which infects many computers has the following sympton. When you boot up your computer and access the Internet with Internet Explorer, you will see multiple random ads appear. New tabs are opened and this causes your PC to use up resources to cater to these Ads. If you have a slow computer that has installed many programs, this can bring your surfing experience to a crawl, as your PC has to share resources not only displaying the webpage you’re trying to visit, but those of the pop up ads as well.

PUP.Optional.Conduit.A is very tricky and stubborn, and it is able to update its malicious features to prevent the removal from antivirus programs. What’s more, PUP.Optional.Conduit.A will eat up the system resources to run various processes that are responsible for collect users’financial data, privacy etc and transferring to remote hackers for evil purposes in the background. Meanwhile, users may notice that the computer is really slow and takes long time to boot up the Windows. Everything works weirdly, some programs may not be opened properly and show error message. Users must remove PUP.Optional.Conduit.A without any delay before the targeted PC is completely controlled by remote hackers.


Severe threats of PUP.Optional.Conduit.A reported

The most annoying part is that, it redirects to suspicious website when ever you visit popular social site such as Facebook. Recently, it has been reported that on browsing specific Facebook application, the Trojan redirects to a malicious site that claims to be designed by “Sun Java Microsystems.” Not only that it also promotes a scam, involving young Pop singer Justin Bieber spreading fake news about him, with a specific link having a logo of Fox News. It misleads the visitors and if you happen to click it, it installs a malware on your computer. The malware is designed to send spam emails to your friends and relatives using your profile and spreading the threat to their system as well. It is very important to get rid of PUP.Optional.Conduit.A on detection.