Question about Knctr

[mountaindew4spirit88]

I work for a rent-to-own company and work on desktop support/virus removal/"keep the customer happy and keep their computer fast" business. Recently a lot of computers have come back with a decent amount of malware/spyware stuff like that. Not difficult to remove, but, each time I inspect a computer, this program is always there: KNCTR. It's apparently a social-media app? I'm not familiar with it and was wondering if anyone could take me to school on KNCTR. ( I know a lot of malware has come from the adobe flash player. That I can handle, but it just seems too much of a coincidence that KNCTR is on there too )

[essellar]

It's sort of a "Skype substitute" (media-enhanced VoIP), and I can't find any reports of known exploits or vulnerabilities. The correlation between KNCTR installs and malware is probably an indication of usage patterns rather than the software itself -- KNCTR occupies a "younger, hipper, stick-it-to-the-man" market niche than its approximately equivalent platforms, and is more popular among youngsters, gamers and risk-takers than it is among staid adults and people who are fundamentally afraid of breaking their computers by pressing the wrong button on "the Googles".

[theone48]

mountaindew,

KNCTR, acronym for 'Connect Center'. It's an all-in-one communication suite. See here for more info.