Yapages.ru

Yapages.ru is a Russian search engine whose design resembles the one used by Funday24.ru and Smartinf.ru, other Russian search engines that may be hosted on all sorts of domain names. However, the language is not the only common thing between these pages – all of them also are associated with browser hijacking software that may be used to improve their traffic and popularity artificially.

The Yapages.ru browser hijacker is not unsafe, and users who opt to install it either knowingly or unknowingly will notice only one change in their Web browser's behavior – their default new tab page will be set to Yapages.ru. The Russian search engine does not use a custom search algorithm and, instead, all search queries will be redirected to a custom Google Search aggregator. Apart from the search field, the Yapages.ru website also hosts a weather forecast, currency exchange information, quick links to popular Russian pages, as well as a collection of articles written in Russian.

Overall, the Yapages.ru will not be a page that non-Russian speakers will like, and the browser hijacker that brought it to their Web browser should be removed if they want to get their Web browser's old settings back. The removal of hijackers may be a task that can be performed manually, but the name of the browser hijacker linked to Yapages.ru is unknown, and that's why the removal should be carried out with the help of a trustworthy cyber security product.