I am of the personal opinion that ASC should be detected as PUP based solely on their overly aggressive and often deceitful advertising tactics where users are tricked into downloading ASC when intending to download some completely different product/software on a reputable download site simply because ASC has purchased ad space on the page in (in my opinion) misuses that space by displaying nothing but large, green, legitimate looking "Download" and "Download Now" buttons, nowhere indicating that those buttons are not for the intended application being hosted on the page, but are actually ads linking to downloads of ASC. ASC is detected as PUP for a valid reason, and that is because it meets the current criteria for PUP classification under the current policies used by Malwarebytes to determine what apps should be detected as PUP, which has absolutely nothing to do with the company's history in relation to Malwarebytes and the world of antimalware applications.
The detection of ASC as PUP has absolutely nothing to do with Malwarebytes' history with iOBit, otherwise not only would ASC have been detected as PUP LONG before Malwarebytes actually started detecting it (which was only recently, and only due to a change in the PUP policy which enabled the Research team to be more aggressive against PUPs), but Malwarebytes would also have started detecting all of iOBits' apps as PUP, yet they do not. ASC never pirated any of Malwarebytes' scripts long ago the company that makes ASC allegedly stole the Malwarebytes database (along with several others belonging to other reputable antimalware vendors) and used them in their antimalware product (not ASC).
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