In fact, the relatively mild damage smokescreens a multi-pronged traffic reorganization hoax. Yahoo is legitimate and trustworthy, so the impression could be generally okay, except that the forwarding takes place without the user’s consent. The redirect scheme is constructed in such a way that the victim may mistake the virus attack for a trivial or accidental tweak of the browser settings.

The landing page,, is the tip of the iceberg in this plot. The following paragraphs will dot the i’s and cross the t’s so that you can grasp the gist of this annoying campaign. At first sight, the whys and wherefores of this tactic seem unclear, but in-depth scrutiny reveals that the adware operators’ motivation is ultimately clear-cut. One the nastiest threats of that kind is a potentially unwanted application (PUA) that takes over the main web navigation preferences in Safari, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox and causes an incessant rerouting to Yahoo Search.

To get rid of malware, you need to purchase the full version of Combo Cleaner. The free scanner checks whether your Mac is infected with Yahoo redirect virus.

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