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Defender in now detects IncrediMail's installer packages as a potentially unwanted application (PUA). Microsoft calls it PUA:Win32/Perion.

This is short-term mixed but ultimately very good news, because IncrediMail, a program from the days, traps user mail in a proprietary format defying exportability even today, and it uses cutesy features as the bait for that trap.

go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linki

The description reminded me that the customer I had who swore by it the most constantly brought their PC to me for spyware clean-up. It jogged my memory because I haven't seen or heard from them in 13 years.

But the completely unrelated tech support patient in my care still had copies of the installer in their Downloads directory.

@arielmt Wow, that must be some resistant, proprietary stuff. It's not using a custom compressor or something like #SQLite?

@arielmt Oh god I haven't thought about incredimail in a literal dog's age. What a pile. I still vaguely remember that like "If you can't read this, get incredimail" message/signature it stuck to outgoing mail.
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