Yaimo.com is a browser hijacker designed to act as a search engine in place of your usual homepage. It looks like Google but obviously it isn’t:
This kind of malware has the ability to change, without your knowledge, several browser settings such as the Start page, the Error page the Search page to make your browser visit other pages already defined. These pages contain ads that will make profit for the Yaimo.com designer. The more this page is visited, the more it makes profit. For that reason, this page enters sneakily when you install downloaded software on your computer.
Yaimo.com is also used to give warning about an imaginary virus. This false alarm comes along with a link to an online vendor of anti-malware to help you deal with this infection. This seller is often the designer of the browser hijacker. He earns money by the purchases made by the user that he has cheated.Yaimo.com is designed so that the internet user won’t be able to reconfigure manually through the browser options, the changed settings or if not, it sets up the wrong settings each time you start your computer.
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