Just a heads-up, I tried to download Apprentice today in Chrome and it got blocked as malware. I was able to find it in “Downloads” and “recover malware”.

The version I was downloading was the production version: houdini-14.0.201.13-win64-vc11.exe

I did a scan of my Downloads directory with Windows Defender and it didn't complain about it.

And yet Chrome lets every other annoying piece of adware in to f$#k up everything… Like my dog would treat a burglar. Smiling and friendly…