{"id":4331,"date":"2015-07-14T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/?page_id=4331"},"modified":"2019-06-19T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T23:30:23","slug":"remove_yontoo_desktop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/p\/remove_yontoo_desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninstalling Yontoo Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Segoe UI,Lucida Grande,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; vertical-align: middle;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\"><img style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" \/><\/a>Uninstalling Yontoo Desktop<\/div>\n<h2>Problem<\/h2>\n<p>Yontoo Desktop is installed on your machine. You should uninstall it. This program poses a moderate threat to your PC.<\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p>Yontoo provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yontoo.com\/Support.aspx\">uninstall steps on their website<\/a>. If you have trouble with those steps, they have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yontoo.com\/Support.aspx\">contact form<\/a> that you can use to request help.<\/p>\n<h2>Additional Yontoo Uninstall Information<\/h2>\n<p>YontooDesktop has multiple versions. You can learn more about how to uninstall YontooDesktop on the Microsoft Malware Protection pages for YontooDesktop:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/portal\/threat\/encyclopedia\/entry.aspx?Name=Adware%3AMSIL%2FYontoo\">Adware:MSIL\/Yontoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/portal\/threat\/encyclopedia\/Entry.aspx?Name=Adware%3aWin32%2fYontoo\">Adware:Win32\/Yontoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/portal\/threat\/encyclopedia\/entry.aspx?name=Trojan%3aWin32%2fLowzones.DZ#tab=1\">Trojan:Win32\/Lowzones.DZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"mailto:rlander@microsoft.com?subject=Help%20me%20remove%20Yontoo\">contact Microsoft<\/a> for help if the suggested instructions do not help you remove Yontoo Desktop.<\/p>\n<h2>Other ways to protect your machines<\/h2>\n<p>Microsoft provides free tools to remove viruses and unwanted software such as Yontoo Desktop. On Windows 8, you can use <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows-8\/windows-defender#1TC=t1\">Windows Defender<\/a>. Otherwise, you can install <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/security-essentials-all-versions\">Microsoft Security Essentials<\/a>. You can also use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/scanner\/default.aspx\">Microsoft Safety Scanner<\/a>, for a quick scan of your machine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This information has been provided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\">.NET team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uninstalling Yontoo Desktop Problem Yontoo Desktop is installed on your machine. You should uninstall it. This program poses a moderate threat to your PC. Solution Yontoo provides uninstall steps on their website. If you have trouble with those steps, they have a contact form that you can use to request help. Additional Yontoo Uninstall Information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":58792,"parent":4241,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4331","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4331\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}