Browser hijackers such as tvnewtabsearch.com modify certain parameters of all browsers like the default homepage or the default search engine, thus any browser can be affected either Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera or Edge.
This reconfiguration is made in such a way that to have back your own homepage becomes impossible. Usually browser hijackers also modify Windows’ Registry and several other elements to make sure that their own configuration is set over and over again.
Hijacking browsers is a technique that is used to enlarge the developers advertising income and to improve the position of certain websites in search results.
tvnewtabsearch.com is particularly persistent and to remove it we must absolutely need to use a special tool. This program installs itself within a group, meaning that if you’ve noticed it is installed in your computer, you can be sure that many other programs were installed as well. This software packs can be downloaded in P2P networks, or in popular download websites that promote tools to be installed.
tvnewtabsearch.com installation is often done as optional, meaning that it was attached to another software and that you fail to see the warning, thus failing to see that you could have stopped it from being installed remaining only with the software you were after in the first place.
Even though tvnewtabsearch.com presents itself as a search engine with Google like strengths, and promises to show you results in record time, truth is that it will show sponsored links in the first positions, which could be greater threats that one would imagine. In their terms and conditions, tvnewtabsearch.com denies any responsibility for the content of links shown by them. This is because they could easily send you towards a forbidden website or a fake e-commerce one and what’s even worse to a phishing website. As you can see, keeping tvnewtabsearch.com installed in your computer exposes you to greater threats even when in seeing the search engine for the first time you can see nothing dangerous about it.
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