GetNowUpdater

GetNowUpdater is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) whose installation may become the cause for a large number of unwanted changes in your computer's behavior. This software's publisher is AppScion, a software company whose name is associated with other Potentially Unwanted Programs that tend to use deceptive marketing tricks to get on the computers of as many users as possible. GetNowUpdater may often be seen being advertised as a useful computer utility that allows users to check all their installed applications for updates quick and easily. The GetNowUpdater may claim to improve the computer's performance by monitoring and updating all installed software, but these claims may not truthful, and GetNowUpdater may not be a reliable program to use.

The GetNowUpdater application may offer to change the Web browser's settings so that users will be redirected to a 'new and improved' search engine called SearchTheWeb. However, this behavior is typical for browser hijackers, and we advise users not to agree to have their homepage and new tab page changed by GetNowUpdater. The SearchTheWeb search engine isn't threatening, but its search results might not be reliable, and it may contain links to other Potentially Unwanted Programs.

GetNowUpdater isn't a piece of software most people would agree to install knowingly, and that's why its perpetrators may use deceptive marketing tricks to convince users into agreeing to install this software unknowingly. GetNowUpdater may often be found in software bundles that may use misleading installation instructions to trick people into accepting the offer to install the GetNowUpdater program.