Bwplayer

Bwplayer is considered a Potentially Unwanted Program by security researchers due to the numerous issues it can cause to the computers and their users that are affected by it. The Bwplayer favored distribution method is by misleading pop-up advertisements, bogus flash payer installer and bundled with freeware downloaded from the Internet without checking its origin. The symptoms of the Bwplayer's presence on a computer are a slow and irresponsive machine, unwanted advertisements that start appearing out of nowhere, and other, unusual events. Bwplayer is a software which the con artists use to generate monetary gain to them by pestering a computer's screen with countless, unwanted advertisements that, if clicked, may lead the computer user to unsafe websites, or promote fake and costly applications. Bwplayer can monitor the users' activities on the affected computer, collect the computer users' data, which it may sell to ill-minded third parties.

Bwplayer is advertised as an application that can provide the computer user with functions and features that will help computer users to have a better browsing experience. However, it provides the opposite by interfering with the computer users' activities. Therefore, the recommended way to handle Bwplayer is to remove it with an anti-malware scanner, the sooner, the better.