YOK

It includes Moderate risk threats that are often bundled with functionally unrelated software or installed without adequate notice and consent, and may display unwanted advertising on the user's desktop. Such threats may track users' online browsing habits and transmit non-personally identifying data back to a server in order to target advertising. These threats may be configured to start automatically with the operating system, use an auto-updater that the user cannot control, or install other functionally separate programs without adequate notice and consent.0

General information:

Malware Name:	YOK
Malware Type:	Toolbar
Company Name:	YOK.com
Company URL:	http://www.yok.com/
Threat Level:	Moderate Risk
Operating System:	WIN XP
Installation Type:	Installed through EXE
Operation:	Time of After Installation

Company Description:

YOK.com provides YOK Super search. YOK super search, integrating more than 100 Chinese Search Engine massive resources to cover the website, music, video, software, photographs, novels, journalism, forums, games, Flash, maps, shopping and other commercial search more than 10 themes for us to provide the most comprehensive search results. YOK super search using multithreading parallel mechanism that allows the same theme of the search for mass searches highly effective and practical. We can also search the themes in a different key switching, only light hits the button, and the results can be instantaneous access to various search engines, and more control for your convenience.

Spyware Description:

It includes Moderate risk threats that are often bundled with functionally unrelated software or installed without adequate notice and consent, and may display unwanted advertising on the user's desktop. Such threats may track users' online browsing habits and transmit non-personally identifying data back to a server in order to target advertising. These threats may be configured to start automatically with the operating system, use an auto-updater that the user cannot control, or install other functionally separate programs without adequate notice and consent.0

Characteristics/Symptoms:

    -> It has a search function and provides search results for paid advertisers -> Track browsing habits -> Adds a third-party utility bar to the web browser -> Changes browser -> Shows Advertisements0

Additional information might be found here:

	Search at Google for YOK
	Search at Bing for YOK
	Search at Yahoo for YOK

Processes Running:

File information Created after Installation:

File Location	Size (Bytes)	Type
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Desktop\YOK¦¼ ¦---˜.lnk	1056	Shortcut
C:\Program Files\YOK.com\SuperSearch\yoksch.htm	379	HTML Document
C:\WINDOWS\system32\yokcol.dll	65536	Application Extension

Folder information Created after Installation:

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