For two days, I have been trying to figure out what I downloaded or updated. My ISP provides McAfee Security Center for its customers. Previously they provided Norton Security Suite and decided to make a change after the ISP’s system was hacked. I never had a problem with the Norton. Now that I have McAfee on my system, many things are popping up including a recent attack on my system by a Generic PUP.z. The path was in my C drive and the i386 folder. The PUP stands for potentially unwanted programs. Yesterday, I followed the McAfee instructions for “fixing” the problem. It required a restart on my computer, which I did.

Today, I received another alert from McAfee that another Generic PUP.z was attacking my system. This time I noticed the path was different in my C drive. It was in my System Volume Information folder, then the Restore. Again, I followed McAfee removal instructions. I checked my Protection Status Report as I did yesterday and it states my system is protected. I wonder how it came back today.

I have been searching the web for a solution of removing Generic PUP.z. If you have had any problems with this attacking your system and have found a solution on the removal, please let me know. From what I have read on it, it will not infect or inject your computer from mine.