Conduit - a Potentially Unwanted Program
Published on April 18, 2014
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I had an interesting experience when I found that web pages were loading very slowly, if at all, on my computer. I tried loading the same pages on my iPad and found that they loaded normally.
Conduit in computer speak as a PUP, or a Potentially Unwanted Program. It Hijacks your Browsers and infects the computer's registry. You will know that there is something wrong when you are trying to access a web page and you get messages telling you that the page isn't loading, and asks if you want to kill the page or wait. If you click on wait the page eventually loads. Once loaded is seems to behave normally.
Conduit is often bundled with Freeware programs. If you download and install Freeware programs read every screen very carefully and click decline on any programs that you don't want installed, particularly Conduit.
If you find your computer showing the symptoms I described above Google search "pcsmarties + conduit, and you will find a very detailed solution to the problem. The solutions includes deleting an Conduit related programs, cleaning out any registry links, and blocking any potential cookies in each of your browsers.
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