![]() After a while advertisement shows up, and the search engine of your browser gets locked. In reallity: yac installs unwanted programs that are hard to remove and takes over control over you computer.The site is rated Red (high risk) by the WOT site advisory service and a visit to the site details page revealed the following user comments: The first thing I did was access YAC’s home page only to be confronted with a warning from WOT. ![]() However, on reading the Malwarebytes article I decided to delve a little deeper into the software’s reputation. I have heard of YAC before but never actually checked it out. Read the Malwarebytes blog post in full here: Yet Another Cleaner, Yet Another Stealer.The manner in which Malwarebytes presents the facts is certainly compelling. Malwarebytes has published an article detailing all the steps taken to prove beyond doubt that YAC is using Malwarebytes’ detection database in its malware scanner/removal tool. Now, it would seem, a similar situation has occurred again, only this time involving the developers of the YAC software. Some of you may remember the furor some time back when the IObit software company was accused of stealing intellectual property from Malwarebytes, an accusation that, to the best of my knowledge has never been repudiated. In YAC’s case, included among these components is a malware scanner and removal tool. ![]() As the name suggests, Yet Another Cleaner (also known as YAC) is one of those universal PC cleaner/maintenance utilities that offers a variety of different of components.
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