CharityEngine

Posted by Lisa Blanc on February 12, 2016

What is CharityEngine?

Potentially unwanted programs are among the most annoying ones out there on the web. This is so because they often are right in the middle, meaning that they exhibit some valuable features and some suspicious one as well. Our research team has recently categorized a program known as CharityEngine this way due to its questionable functionality. We highly recommend staying away from this program as the dubious features obviously outweigh the valuable ones, which are actually rather questionable as well. You might come across claims stating that this piece of software has been developed for a great cause – to help various charities collect money in an easier manner. While it might sound great at first, you should know that in reality such claims are mostly used as a marketing strategy to lure unsuspecting users into obtaining this potentially unwanted program. In fact, our malware experts advise, every user that has this suspicious program running on their PC, to remove it in order to avoid any potentially dangerous outcomes that you might face by running CharityEngine on your computer. test test

Where does CharityEngine come from?

During the research, it has been found out that an official website that would host a direct download link for CharityEngine does not exist. This finding signifies the fact that the developers of this potentially unwanted program use some dubious ways to distribute their software. In most cases that this potentially unwanted program is spread via software bundles, which are mostly obtained from questionable third-party download websites. Such way of distribution is one of the major reasons this application has been classified as a potentially unwanted program since it is extremely popular among malware distributors.

Fortunately, there are a few simple steps that you can take in order to improve your virtual security. It is critical to download your software from official vendors’ websites only since unauthorized site often provides installers filled with extra software, about which you can never be sure. Additionally, you should take each setup procedure seriously. This is imperative since users often skip through all the steps; such carelessness can often turn out to have unwanted consequences since the user might not even realize that he or she allowed an installation of some questionable program to take place. Finally, we recommend installing a reliable malware detection and removal tool since it provides overall system security at all times, meaning that it would warn you about any suspicious sites or download beforehand.

What does CharityEngine do?

The functionality of CharityEngine is a rather suspicious and complicated one, to say the least. What is alarming about it is the fact that the potentially unwanted program performs its questionable task in the background. This means that they are quite hard to spot; thus, a large number of users might not be able to realize that there is something invasive and intrusive about this software. Malware experts working in our internal labs have discovered that this suspicious program is used to mine bitcoins in the background. Since such a task is heavy recourse-wise, it is not at all surprising that the primary indication of such a procedure taking place is a significantly slower performance of your computer. If you have noticed such behavior while running CharityEngine on your computer, you should immediately take action to terminate it since the longer this procedure runs on your PC, the slower it will get. As far as helping various charities collect money in an easier way, we have very little to say about that since we have not found any evidence confirming such claim. Thus, we believe that keeping this potentially unwanted program on your PC is not a good idea whatsoever. Make sure to use the removal guide to delete it in the most efficient way.

How to remove CharityEngine

Fortunately, the removal procedure of CharityEngine is not so complicated. The guide is designed in the way that even non-advanced users could simply terminate this potentially unwanted program. What is imperative is the in-depth analysis for potential leftovers, which should be executed once the manual removal is completed. Only by checking your computer for potential leftover will you be sure that every single bit of this potentially unwanted program has been deleted. Make sure to check your registry system for dubious values or keys. Also check the %PROGRAMFILES% and %APPDATA% directories since they are often used by devious programs.