Users are not advised to download the program.

"Seeing this site lurch back into life, looking identical to how it did back in 2006 and with the browser download following close behind is quite a shock," says Boyd. Our advice would be to stick with another browser. Like their highly appropriate slogan says: "Don't waste your time".

Despite exiting history, Zango's excesses, , had the positive effect of drawing the US FTC's attention to the way consumers were being tricked into installing useless and potentially dubious software with bogus claims and features.

Whichever entity is behind the latest YapBrowser, they have gone to the small effort of giving it a marketing entry on Wikipedia.

"We can assure you that the new YapBrowser download does not contain any hidden software, spy-ware, ad-ware or any harmful applications. We will be regularly checking the software and updating," reads the entry, hopefully.