A nagging adware, called Playtopus
Playtopus is known as a nagging adware, when this infection runs into the target computer, you cannot uninstall it even after you trying to do it many times. When you try to uninstall this adware, you may meet the error message every time somethiang called “RunDLL does its thing. The error message says that ...\AppData\Local\PLAYTO~1\Updater.dll isn't found. Otherwise, it keeps popping up whenever you visiting any web site, you cannot able to stop at all. Usually, this adware program will enter into the target system without your notification, when you are installing some certain free programs which you think that are useful and important to you.
The complains from Playtopus adware’s victims
“My computer caught a virus called Playtopus. It affects my Internet browsers especially Firefox. This nasty program opens a window each time I am running the browser. What is so annoying is it opens a window that cannot be close until I complete what it calls ‘survey’.”
“About a week or so ago, I was stupid enough to respond to a pop-up that told me a virus or trojan had been detected on my PC. It prompted me to press a prompt which would, allegedly, take me to the Microsoft site and give me the chance to download a nifty tool that would find and delete the threat. Like a fool, I responded as prompted, downloaded the tool then ran it. It quickly told me the threat had been detected and removed. By the next day, fed up with these pop-ups every time I visited a site, I looked a bit more closely and saw they were all to do with Playtopus.”
