Yandex Toolbar

The Yandex Toolbar is a Potentially Unwanted Program. Although the Yandex Toolbar is promoted as a way to access content directly from your Web browser and offers various supposed upgrades for your Web browser, the Yandex Toolbar does not offer any services of value or interesting or useful content. Rather, the Yandex Toolbar is designed specifically to profit at the expense of computer users using suspicious marketing techniques. The Yandex Toolbar is associated with misleading tactics meant to take advantage of inexperienced computer users and to profit at their expense while causing a wide variety of problems on the affected computers. Most importantly, the Yandex Toolbar may be installed automatically on the affected computer, often bundled with low quality freeware and using misleading messages to make it seem as if the Yandex Toolbar is part of the freeware program being installed. Malware researchers consider that the Yandex Toolbar presents a threat to your computer's security and to the computer users' privacy and that the Yandex Toolbar shouldn't stay on your PC. Therefore, using the help of a proven and updated anti-malware application you should disable the Yandex Toolbar right away.

What are the Symptoms of the Yandex Toolbar’s Presence

PC users have issued several reports concerning the Yandex Toolbar or similar PUPs. These types of programs may cause a wide variety of symptoms on the Web browsers on which they are installed. The following are some issues that have been reported in relation to the Yandex Toolbar:

• The Yandex Toolbar may cause performance issues on affected Web browsers, causing them to run slower than normal, freeze or crash frequently.
• The Yandex Toolbar may cause browser redirects, taking over the infected Web browser and forcing it to visit certain websites, display them on new windows or tabs or prevent certain websites from being accessed.
• The Yandex Toolbar may gather information about your Web browser settings and about your browsing patterns. The collected data may be taken by a third party and then used to carry out marketing research.
• The Yandex Toolbar is closely related to pop-up advertisements and suspicious error messages which main goal is to trick credible PC users into allowing other PUPs into the PC.