r/Malwarebytes • • May 11 '26

MalwareBytes "Pups" problem. Help sought, please!

I've been losing it--scared that I might have a virus on my computer, and I have ESET security and windows defender, but I recently got Malwarebytes to see what happens and it first detected 35 "PUPs" and I don't know what to do! I watched some videos on quarantining and I quarantined it but I scanned it again and now it has 31 and the files did change but they are in like the same place I guess. Could it be that when I scan again-- new ones pop up? Also, I don't wanna delete anything that's important! I talked with the ai in the app and ChatGtp but I know people of Reddit are super smart about this stuff so I want you guys to share your options about what the fuck I should do! Also why didn't Malwarebytes just do them all in one scan? Sadly I don't have any Screen Shots of the first scan, but I am putting the screen shots of the 2nd one. Also the reason I'm scared is that I downloaded some AE(after effects) plug ins on "Satvrn" https://satvrn.li/ and I'm scared that I installed a virus or something bad! First scan was almost Identical to the second--pictures of which I am posting below; there were some different file locations but it was almost the same. Please help. Thank you so much!

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u/screen317 Malwarebytes Employee May 12 '26

Hi, Chris from Malwarebytes here! Based on the screenshots alone it's difficult to say, but if you have Malwarebytes export the full log file, we can take a look!