Editing Malware (section)

====Potentially unwanted program====
[[Potentially unwanted program]]s (PUPs) are applications that would be considered unwanted despite often being intentionally downloaded by the user.<ref>{{cite web|date=2009-12-15|title=Rating the best anti-malware solutions|url=https://arstechnica.com/security/2009/12/av-comparatives-picks-eight-antipua-winners/|access-date=28 January 2014|publisher=Arstechnica|archive-date=2 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202092753/http://arstechnica.com/security/2009/12/av-comparatives-picks-eight-antipua-winners/|url-status=live}}</ref> PUPs include spyware, adware, and fraudulent dialers.

Many security products classify unauthorised [[Keygen|key generators]] as PUPs, although they frequently carry true malware in addition to their ostensible purpose.<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|last1=Kammerstetter|first1=Markus|last2=Platzer|first2=Christian|last3=Wondracek|first3=Gilbert|title=Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and communications security|chapter=Vanity, cracks and malware|date=2012-10-16|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/2382196.2382282|series=CCS '12|location=New York, NY, USA|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|pages=809–820|doi=10.1145/2382196.2382282|isbn=978-1-4503-1651-4|s2cid=3423843}}</ref> In fact, Kammerstetter et al. (2012)<ref name=":7" /> estimated that as much as 55% of key generators could contain malware and that about 36% malicious key generators were not detected by antivirus software.