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What is ymailadvisor.exe? Yahoo! Mail Advisor?

Vendor:      Yahoo! Inc
Product:     Yahoo! Mail
Vendor Website:      http://www.yahoo.com
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

Process is Bad PC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is bad.
Process is questionablePC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that the safety of this process is questionable.
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Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: YMailAdvisor.exe- Yahoo Mail Advisor is the part of yahoo messenger that when logged in and you have mail on that account, a little mail icon will show up in the bottom right corner of your screen near the time and it will say how many unread items you have.

ymailadvisor.exe uses excessive system and memory resources with no corresponding benefit. Applications such as these should be disabled to improve overall system performance.


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ymailadvisor.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
Learn more about protecting yourself from bad versions of this file with PC Matic.

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.13%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 1 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
ymailadvisor.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x7d21171da91a625692daa6e0f27d27b2 2/27/2019 9:26:00 PM Unknown Unknown Yahoo! Mail Advisor 170 KB
2 Status 0xdc42fa40848ce3d14308c4a1a80de3ad 1/23/2012 8:52:00 PM Unknown Unknown Yahoo! Mail Advisor 122 KB
3 Status 0xe88a451b2198aa3962b133a0c7f66847 8/14/2011 12:42:00 AM Unknown Unknown Yahoo! Mail Advisor 129 KB
4 Status 0xff66da8247b46133a446d683a5bd88b9 11/21/2008 2:59:00 AM Unknown Unknown Yahoo! Mail Advisor 122 KB
5 Status 0x995130c54abd58fff2cd3c61e2511826 10/27/2008 10:15:00 PM Unknown Unknown Yahoo! Mail Advisor 194 KB


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