Windows 10: blocked item in windows 10 PUA:Win32/Pearfoos.A!ml

has anyone succesfully remove this if they ever had it? i really need help because i think its a mining software

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Windows Defender PUP/PUA protection blocked BitTorrent

Suggestion to read all of these articles:

• How to Add or Remove Exclusions for Windows Defender in Windows 10
  
• Enable or Disable Microsoft Defender PUA Protection in Windows 10
• https://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh508770.aspx
• Configure Windows Defender in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10

 

Windows Defender blocking PUA?

Few questions about blocking PUA in Windows Defender.

I enabled the prevention or blocking of PUAs and would like to ask how intrusive the notifications are?

Are there a lot of false positives?

I only download and install apps which I really need, no Java installed and really careful on what apps I install if I really had to.

Does blocking PUA really helps blocking Ad Choices in the browser or it does not? Because I do get those lately.

 

Windows Defender blocking PUA?

- Notifications. same as other WD notifications (PUA at the beginning of the message)
- False positives: hard to tell. Have none in a month or so (non PUA detections)
- PUA blocking is only for file transfers. Nothing to do with ads themselves (only ad injection).

From MS doc:

Read more: MS docs: Detect and block potentially unwanted applications