Yawtix

Yawtix

Known Toolbar

by Yontoo Technology, Inc.

What is Yawtix?

Yawtix is software application developed by Yontoo Technology, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 51.14% of installations running this operating system. Yawtix's installer is typically 7.00 MB in size and installs around 7 files. The most common release is 2014.09.14.083512 with 2.27% of all installations currently using this version.

Yawtix is most popular in the United States with 26.16% of installations residing in this country.

About Yawtix?

Yawtix is a browser extension designed to display banner and text-context link ads promoting the installation of additional content, including web browser toolbars and optimization utilities. These advertisements may cause webpage text to become hyperlinks and potentially lead to the installation of other adware programs without the user's knowledge.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Yawtix.

updateYawtix.exe (MD5: 5f9697f397abf70044a0d15b90c0f439) has been flagged by 31 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.1822950
Agnitum Outpost PUA.Kranet!
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus,HEUR]/MSIL.Kranet
AVG Generic.CB4
Avira ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen7
AVware Yontoo (fs)
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.BH
Bitdefender Trojan.GenericKD.1822950
CAT-QuickHeal AdWare.MSIL.r3 (Not a Virus)
Comodo Security UnclassifiedMalware
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Trojan.GenericKD.1822950 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.H
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/Kranet
F-Prot W32/A-db42cb3b!Eldorado
F-Secure Trojan.GenericKD.1822950
G Data Trojan.GenericKD.1822950
K7 AntiVirus Trojan ( 0049f7ad1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 020000001 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.MSIL.Kranet.heur
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.Yawtix.A
McAfee BrowseFox.c
McAfee-GW-Edition BrowseFox.c
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.1822950
nProtect Trojan.GenericKD.1822950
Panda Antivirus Trj/Chgt.D
Qihoo-360 Win32/Virus.Adware.e4c
Sophos Generic PUA LK
Symantec Trojan.ADH.2
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0825
VIPRE Antivirus Yontoo (fs)
Yawtix.FirstRun.exe (MD5: 5431536183dc24ada3128a19ac59ab9d) has been flagged by 42 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Avira AntiVir APPL/BrowseFox.Gen
ESET-NOD32 a variant of MSIL/BrowseFox.G
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.Sambreel.A
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0611
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Adware.SwiftBrowse.CO
Agnitum Outpost Riskware.Agent!
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
avast! Win32:BrowseFox-FB [PUP]
AVG BrowseFox.F
Avira ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen2
AVware Yontoo (fs)
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.O
Bitdefender Adware.SwiftBrowse.CO
Bkav FE W32.HfsAdware.6B2C
Comodo Security Application.Win32.BrowseFox.JM
Cyren W32/S-7bed2e86!Eldorado
Dr.Web Trojan.BPlug.143
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Adware.SwiftBrowse.CO (B)
Fortinet FortiGate Riskware/BrowseFox
F-Prot W32/S-7bed2e86!Eldorado
F-Secure Adware.SwiftBrowse.CO
G Data Adware.SwiftBrowse.CO
Jiangmin AdWare/SwiftBrowse.dj
K7 AntiVirus Trojan ( 0040f9921 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0040f9921 )
McAfee BrowseFox
McAfee-GW-Edition BrowseFox
MicroWorld-eScan Adware.SwiftBrowse.CO
NANO AntiVirus Trojan.Win32.BPlug.dfntoz
nProtect Adware.SwiftBrowse.CO
Panda Antivirus Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM30.1.Malware.Gen
Sophos Generic PUA LG
Symantec Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Suspicious.Eyc
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00LH14
Vba32 AntiVirus AdWare.Kranet
VIPRE Antivirus Yontoo (fs)
Zillya Backdoor.PePatch.Win32.55973
CAT-QuickHeal AdWare.MSIL.r3 (Not a Virus)
Kaspersky not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.MSIL.Kranet.heur
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud)

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • updateYawtix.exe runs as a service named 'Update Yawtix' (Update Yawtix).

Software Details

URL:
https://yawtix.com/support
Support:
https://mailto:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Yawtix
Uninstaller:
C:\Program Files\Yawtix\Yawtixuninstall.exe
Size:
7.00 MB
Language:
English

Yawtix Executable Details

Primary executable:
Yawtix.FirstRun.exe
Name:
Yawtix
Path:
C:\Program Files\Yawtix\Yawtix.FirstRun.exe
MD5:
5431536183dc24ada3128a19ac59ab9d
SHA-1:
–
SHA-256:
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Files installed by Yawtix
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
7za.exe
e92604e043f51c604b6d1ac3bcd3a202
EXE
Updater.exe
c5bc3d856c77bc50fb4f06591205e1b1
EXE
YawtixUninstall.exe
6bd0eea74497ba0f9e5b12084fda657b
EXE
updateYawtix.exe
Malware
5f9697f397abf70044a0d15b90c0f439
DLL
Yawtixbho.dll
b0e09a02214e87b4dafceb65116eb8f0
EXE
Yawtix.FirstRun.exe
Malware
5431536183dc24ada3128a19ac59ab9d
EXE
YawtixUn.exe
c2d1fa7acf4438db6b9e0feaa192649b