McAfee and Generic PUP.x!ep

[BMEDFO]

Hi,

McAfee keeps telling me my computer has Generic PUP.x!ep after a full scan. It won't delete the file or quarantine it.

I've tried to google to find out more but there's very little there.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks.

[mixture]

What did you google ?

https://community.mcafee.com/thread/12640

Amongst others.....

[Tarq57]

What's the location of the detected file? (Full path).

"PUP" is usually "potentially unwanted program".
"Gen" is "generic".
What the detection probably means is that there is a program somewhere on your computer that you may not want to have running as its behaviour or signature is close to or somewhat mimics that of a known malware.

Research this program, if the file path points you to it.

[BMEDFO]

Thanks. McAfee says it's a unwanted program but not a virus. I've downloaded and run malwarebytes anti-malware and it's not found anything. McAfee doesn't give a path to the program.

hmmmm!

[mixture]

Have you purged System Restore ?

Antivirus Tools Cannot Clean Infected Files in the _Restore Folder (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263455)

[Tarq57]

Been away for a while.... does mcafee at least give the program name, or file name?
There should be some info to that effect. If not, I wouldn't be very happy with it.