YAC MAY BE MALWARE!
Hold the presses… I am hearing that YAC MAY be malware… I am researching now. In the meantime, do not install it! I JUST ran Malwarebytes Ant-Malware, and it turned up nothing on the PC I installed it on… but, I am still checking.
Pro and Con comments I have found on YAC:
Pros:
“I used it for a while and it is nice and safe program. I uninstalled it due to there being no apparent way to disable the HIPs module. The HIPs module is set to automatically deny suspicious actions when you haven’t chosen whether to allow or deny the action after I think 30 seconds. I’d prefer there to be no countdown and for the prompt to stay there until clicked.
But apart from that it is excellent.”
“It’s not malicious, but because it’s not well known as of yet there is little information to be found about it.”
“(I) tried Norton and McAfee but was not thrilled with the mediocre results so out of desperation downloaded YAC. I find it to be as effective as any of the programs that you pay for and will continue to use it as I like its’ simple format. It’s a good security program and is so easy to clean/optimize/scan for malware. I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Maybe because it’s free some people think it must be a scam. I like it.”
“A school mate from Brazil told me that YAC is a useful utility developed by a company from his country. Certainly I know what it is, so we began to discuss on this program. He said every Brazilian is proud of YAC, because it is useful, helpful and free. In my opinion, this program had a space for improvement.”
Cons:
https://botcrawl.com/remove-yac-virus/
https://manual-removal.com/remove-yet-another-cleaner-yac-and-search-yac-mx-redirect/
MORE NEWS:
I uninstalled YAC easily, with no hassle, they said “Goodbye, what did we do?” and all that… but, there was no weird surprises. It seems harmless to me so far… but, I am still researching…
