Want a virus, here's one (Ref # Microsoft Security Intelligence)

What is a PUA?
A potentially unwanted program (PUP) or potentially unwanted application (PUA) is software that a user may perceive as unwanted. It is used as a subjective tagging criterion by security and parental control products. Such software may use an implementation that can compromise privacy or weaken the computer's security.    

1 - Doing Google search for a movie torrent



2 - yifymovies.net homepage



3 - Entire homepage has an overlay like an invisible wall



4 - The magnet link which was not clickable earlier is now clickable with also the cursor hover effect



5 - The new window that opens when you click on magnet link behind the invisible wall



6 - Windows Defender Alerts That You Start Getting Now On



7 - The fake app opener redirection page and the anti-virus defender alert for it



8 - The real choose an application window (that is coming from the browser built-ins)



9 - When you launch the torrent, your anti-virus defender alerts you for unwanted software



10 - Defender found threats



11 - More description and file location from Defender



12 - Description of PUA on Microsoft Security Intelligence site [ Microsoft Security Intelligence ]



13 - Actual file that was detected as PUA



14 - Details after action by Defender



15 - After all this, my utorrent stopped working and was failing to uninstall too



16 - after forced delete by deleting files instead of using appwiz.cpl, the file association is still there



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