Sunbelt: Stay Far Away From YapBrowser

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Alex Eckelberry writes over on the Sunbelt Blog:

This is a completely worthless and, in fact, potentially dangerous application that pre-installs 180Solutions Zango and does nothing but apparently redirect you to a porn site. A relationship to child porn is even suggested from posts by Andrew Clover (who calls it the “kidporn browser”) and PaperGhost.

You can see [above] the URL “microsoft.com” is redirected to this porn page.

More worrisome is a Russian document (related to the highconvert gang) that we uncovered on April 4th which suggests that the YapBrowser will be used for some very nasty spyware installs.

More here.