Is anyone familiar with YPOPs? Can you me info about it. My antivirus detected a worm. Should I remove it?

Answer 1

Well, second question first. As a rule, if your antivirus software program detects a malicious file then you should quarantine it before deleting it. Ever so often, antivirus programs detect false positives - safe files incorrectly labeled as malicious ones. By quarantining the file, should removing it cause problems, you can restore it.

Now, to answer your first question. You might have seen the terms POP3 and IMAP associated with e-mail. Without going in to great details, these two are protocols that e-mail services (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail) use to deliver incoming messages. The free version of Yahoo! Mail does not provide POP3 access. The latter creates a problem for those of us who use desktop e-mail clients like Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Eudora. These e-mail clients can not download messages from Yahoo! mail on to the PC. YPOP is a workaround for this obstacle. With YPOP, these e-mail clients can download e-mail messages off of Yahoo! using some very clever programming. Some antivirius and anti-spyware applications can mistakenly detect YPOP as a malicious file because the way it works is very similar to how some malicious file behave as well.

Answer 2

Yes, this is a popup and can deliver keylogger application in y our computer. As you know some spyware can snoop your personal information without your problem. So Always use Reputated antispyware software to clean your pc, such as noadware.

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Answer 3

You should and reformat after backup worms cause damage....