Threat Database Adware NewTabTV Plus

NewTabTV Plus

By CagedTech in Adware

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 931
Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 159,184
First Seen: September 2, 2015
Last Seen: September 20, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The NewTabTV Plus browser extension is advertised with its ability to turn your browser into a media station and allow you to search media content on specially selected online sources. The NewTabTV Plus extension may overwrite your new tab and home page settings in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. NewTabTV Plus will change your default search aggregator to Search.NewTabTVSearch.com and may limit your search options by writing a registry entry in Windows. The NewTabTV Plus extension is developed by Imali Media Ltd., that deployed WinFix Pro, and may direct you to register for insecure services from third parties. Users may install NewTabTV Plus extension with a freeware package and may want to know that it is ad-supported. PC users who installed NewTabTV Plus should expect to see coupons, discounts and sponsored offers from advertisers partnering with Imali Media Ltd. The Search.NewTabTVSearch.com domain may seem a good place to start searching for media because it has links to IMDB, Hulu, and Netflix. It may feature links to suspicious pages and will not give you the same quality results as Google would. Moreover, the NewTabTV Plus extension may display pop-up windows to invite you to install software like the FileSendSuite Toolbar and the MyRadioAccess Toolbar that are adware. The NewTabTV Plus browser extension uses web beacons, session cookies, and Web data to help its customized advertisements in your browser, and you may not approve of that. You may want to remove NewTabTV Plus from your OS with a reliable anti-spyware instrument and seek less intrusive alternatives.

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Registry Details

NewTabTV Plus may create the following registry entry or registry entries:
File name without path
http_newtab-mediasearch.com_0.localstorage
http_newtab-mediasearch.com_0.localstorage-journal
http_newtabtv.com_0.localstorage
http_newtabtv.com_0.localstorage-journal
http_newtabtvplussearch.com_0.localstorage
http_search.newtabtvsearch.com_0.localstorage
http_search.newtabtvsearch.com_0.localstorage-journal
http_search.tvplusnewtabsearch.com_0.localstorage
http_search.tvplusnewtabsearch.com_0.localstorage-journal
http_www.newtab-tv.com_0.localstorage
http_www.newtab-tv.com_0.localstorage-journal
SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\tvplusnewtab.com
SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Explorer\EdpDomStorage\tvplusnewtab.com
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\tvplusnewtab.com

URLs

NewTabTV Plus may call the following URLs:

https://newtabtvsearch.com/?q=
https://tvplusnewtabsearch.com/?q=
medianewtabsearch.com
mediatvtabsearch.com
mynewtvsearch.com
newtab-tvplussearch.com
newtab-tvsearch.com
newtabtvgamasearch.com
newtabtvplussearch.com
searchnewtabtv.com
socialmedianewtabsearch.com
tv-newtabsearch.com
tvnewtabplussearch.com
tvnewtabsearch.com
vhomepage.com

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