To sum up, the presence of the unwanted apps on devices can result into huge risk of system infections, severe privacy issues, financial losses and even identity theft. The collected data could be shared and/or sold to potent crooks who misuse them to generate illicit revenue. They can monitor browsing activity (browsing and search histories) and collect personal information extracted from it (IP addresses, geo-locations and other details). What’s more, most PUAs have data tracking capability. They restrict users’ access to those settings and thus restoring to the previous option is not possible.

Browser hijacker: Another type of PUA that alters browsers’ settings to promote address of a fake search engine.

Adware – this type of PUAs deliver pop-ups, banners, surveys, full-page etc that redirect to various sponsored, affiliated and even dangerous pages and lead to stealthy download/ install software.

They can force-open various unreliable and malicious pages: Further, such software can have hidden some harmful functions. PUAs like this ask for the activation to act the way like they are advertised, but even after the activation is purchased – the apps do not show any promised functions. For this shady, deceptive distribution practices, the app is categorized under potentially unwanted application. Many people see this app installed on their device without their actual permission asked. However, users have registered complaint about its deceptive distribution. Also, it is allegedly capable of eliminating junk, large and duplicate files as well as removing personal data that could result into privacy leaks.

Umate Mac Cleaner is a rogue application supposedly promoted as a system optimizing tool that enhances the performance of the Mac operating systems.

Steps to remove malicious extensions from Chrome browsers:.

Guides on removing malicious plug-ins from Mozilla Firefox:.

Instruction on removing suspicious Safari extensions:.

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