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[ukbirdflu]

I installed Mipony (a download manager) yesterday and during installation it was trying to install Delta search tool bar and Browser Protect and I clicked NO to both, but after installation of Mipony, I found these two malwares have been installed onto my system. It is not as disaterous as a virus, but I spent a few hours cleaning the browsers and reinstall Firefox. Mipony used to do Babylon search tool bar which was as bad, I assume Delta is just a change of name.

I urge everybody to saty away from Mipony.

Most importantly I had Malwarebytes full version 1.62.0.1300 installed protection always on and the data is up to date. It did not catch and stop this malware installation. I think Malwarebytes should incorporated this Mipony and Delta as serious malware.

[Firefox]

Hello and

Sorry to hear you had issues with this malware.... that being said, I would advice you to update your Malwarebytes as you seem to be running a very old version, the current version is 1.70.0.1100 you can download the latest version right => HERE.<=

Once you get the latest version installed, you can perform a quick scan and see if it picks up anything else.

[Maurice Naggar]

@ukbird
Certainly do do as Firefox suggested.

It is likely that your system also got Conduit toolbar(s) which are reputed to have a certain trackware functionality.

Curious as to what motivated you to look at or to get Mipony? and from where?

The latest versions of Internet Explorer are reputed to have built-in download manager capability.
If that is not sufficient for you, and you have some really heavy download needs, give a try to Internet Download Manager (IDM) and or buy it. That product is legitimate and safe. Don't risk the security of your system to the "so-called" freebies.

btw, the webpages for that "mipony" has a lot of eye candy; but no normally expected look & feel & content about who "this entity" is or it's background.
If it looks like a skunk, then ........

[ukbirdflu]

I got the Mipony installation from its official site Mipony.net. I do a fair amount of downloading and I use Jdownloader and Mipony, now it got rid of Mipony in its entrity. I did not upgrade to a more up to date version of Malewarebytes because when I upgraded to newer versions then the one I am using now, after booting up may be after 10 minutes, Malwarebytes threw out a notice saying (from memory) something cannot be performed and then the icon at the system tray disappears. I am using Windows XP SP3 and AVG free version. I will however try the newest version you suggested and see what happens.

[ukbirdflu]

I now installed 1.70.0.1100 and just done a full scan, nothing is found. I will feedback in due course whether this version is giving me stability problems.

[Firefox]

OK thanks for the update, will wait and see what else you report....

If the current version gives you any errors let us know and we will help you get those corrected so that you stay protected with the latest version.

[ukbirdflu]

The new version has been stable for 2 days, I guess they must have fixed the bug that cause it to misbehave in earlier updates.

[Firefox]

Great, thanks for the update....