is Y! Confidential a threat?

squegee

squegee

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I too get the little purple box in the lower right corner on my Yahoo news page. Nothing comes up when you click it. I see others mention it on the internet...some say it's benign, some say it's malware...the verdict? I have malwarebytes, AVG, and periodically run the Microsoft Safety Scanner
 
beers said:
Even if in the remote chance of being benign I'd uninstall that garbage anyway, especially since it makes it such a pain in the rear to remove as opposed to through control panel. Be very wary of applications that obfuscate their removal like that.

http://blog.mitechmate.com/how-to-get-rid-of-yconfidential/
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I ran the ADw cleaner, it seems to be gone (for now anyway). I noticed something new on my desktop that appeared from somewhere called 'cut the rope' I deleted that myself.
Somebody else on here said AVG is malware in itself...should I not use it and stick with Avist & malwarebytes?
 
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squegee said:
Somebody else on here said AVG is malware in itself...should I not use it and stick with Avist & malwarebytes?
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That was me that said that. It's not as good as it used to be. Not all of it is considered malware but AVG Secure Search is. I do highly recommend running Avast and Malwarebytes. I would also suggest running Junkware removal tool.

Please download Junkware Removal Tool to your desktop.

•Shutdown your antivirus to avoid any conflicts.
•Very important that you run the tool in this manner:
Right-mouse click JRT.exe and select Run as administrator
Do NOT just double-click it.
•The tool will open and start scanning your system.
•Please be patient as this can take a while to complete.
•On completion, a log (JRT.txt) is saved to your desktop and will automatically open.
•Post the contents of JRT.txt in your next message.
 
johnb35 said:
That was me that said that. It's not as good as it used to be. Not all of it is considered malware but AVG Secure Search is. I do highly recommend running Avast and Malwarebytes. I would also suggest running Junkware removal tool.

Please download Junkware Removal Tool to your desktop.

•Shutdown your antivirus to avoid any conflicts.
•Very important that you run the tool in this manner:
Right-mouse click JRT.exe and select Run as administrator
Do NOT just double-click it.
•The tool will open and start scanning your system.
•Please be patient as this can take a while to complete.
•On completion, a log (JRT.txt) is saved to your desktop and will automatically open.
•Post the contents of JRT.txt in your next message.
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ok I'll show you my junk next time...:rolleyes:

this is all that came up:

Successfully Deleted: [File] E.\WINDOWS\Tasks\DriverUpdate Scan.job
Successfully Deleted: [File] E.\WINDOWS\prefetch\DriverUPDATE. EXE- 1A419C36.pf
 
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