Yahoo Messenger
by Yahoo! Inc.
What is Yahoo Messenger?
Yahoo Messenger is software application developed by Yahoo! Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 (SP1) with nearly ~99% of installations running this operating system.
Yahoo Messenger is most popular in the United States with 100.00% of installations residing in this country.
Yahoo Messenger adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Yahoo Messenger is known to create 3 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.
About Yahoo Messenger?
This downloadable PC game is available on Yahoo! Games and offers a casual gaming experience.
Software Behaviors
- Services:
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- YahooMessenger.exe runs as a service named 'McAfee Application Installer Cleanup (0285841475581559)' (0285841475581559mcinstcleanup).
- UNWISE.EXE runs as a service named 'Browser System Enahncer' (671c50b0).
- Firewall:
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- YahooMessenger.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\cyber\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe'.
- UNWISE.EXE is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\UNWISE.EXE'.
- Ymsgr_tray.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files1\Yahoo!\Messenger\ymsgr_tray.exe'.
- Scheduled tasks:
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- YahooMessenger.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{D556CEAB-DA41-4596-99DC-3BAE7F8CA0DF}' (runs on registration).
- UNWISE.EXE is scheduled as a task with the class '{F71A9918-1861-4EFE-AE94-530BDDE46DD4}' (runs on registration).
- Ymsgr_tray.exe is scheduled as a task named 'YahooMessngr Tray' (runs on boot).
Startup Entries
- Startup tasks:
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- YahooMessenger.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 1.
- Ymsgr_tray.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named YahooMessngr Tray.
- Registry entries:
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- YahooMessenger.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Windows Bootloader' and executes as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Temp\Microsoft Bootloader\bootloader.exe.
- Registry entries (User):
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- YahooMessenger.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as "C:\Windows\System32\Adobe\SHOCKW~1\SWHELP~1.EXE" -Update -1103472 -"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .
Software Details
- URL:
- https://games.yahoo.com
- Support:
- –
- Installation path:
- C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger
- Uninstaller:
- C:\Program Files2\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\UNWISE.EXE /U C:\Program Files2\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\INSTALL.LOG
- Size:
- 0.00 B
- Language:
- English
Yahoo Messenger Executable Details
- Primary executable:
- dpinst.exe
- Name:
- Yahoo Messenger
- Path:
- C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\dpinst.exe
- MD5:
- 2bfabd08bfaa4c75fe105af365733954
- SHA-1:
- –
- SHA-256:
- –
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