PUP.Optional.FreeCause Issues
Most of the scans come out clean but few flag PUP.Optional.FreeCause. Attempts to disable Chrome plug-ins will not stop the ads (including Multiple pop up ads advertising products to buy and pop up video commercials) that come into the computer along with PUP.Optional.FreeCause. Attempts to exit out of them would sometimes open up a new window directing to a website to buy anti virus software (as a matter of fact some of the program could be rogueware). Besides, additional applications are caught in sight to occupy internal resource without authorization, freecause toolbar and srp.freecause.comfor example.
What Is PUP.Optional.FreeCause
Some consider PUP.Optional.FreeCause mistakenly as Trojan, instead, it is PUP and categorized as adware. It works just like PUP.Optional.Iminent, PUP.Optional.bProtector and PUP.Optional.Conduit that support web applications accordingly. Such PUP is created to help preload corresponding applications into the system configuration and assist in manipulating settings without being flagged by installed security utilities.
