All Social New Tab

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 2,937
Threat Level: 20 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 206
First Seen: June 7, 2023
Last Seen: September 20, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The All Social New Tab is a browser extension that falls within the general category of Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs). The All Social New Tab extension has a Chrome Web Store page and also is advertised on the website of its parent entity – Newtabtools.com. Upon installation, the All Social New Tab replaces the new tab page in your browser with one that contains shortcut links to various social media websites so that there's 'no need to type or search,' according to the Chrome Web Store description of the extension. You already have that functionality in your browser without the need of add-ons, just through your bookmarks toolbar. Your browser also has built-in search functionality, but the All Social New Tab offers you its own custom search box.

What is different about it, then? According to the Privacy Policy published on the main website of Newtabtools, using the custom search box contained in the browser extension will allow Newtabtools to collect information about, among other things, your location, IP address, operating system, viewed pages and searches performed. The obvious way you can get extensions such as All Social New Tab on your system would be visiting their Chrome Web Store page and installing them manually. Speaking of the Chrome store, the All Social New Tab has a single rating there at the time of writing, and that rating is 1 out of 5 stars. Another way you can get such extensions installed on your system automatically is via software bundle installers. In such bundle installers, similar Potentially Unwanted Programs may be packed together with other, sometimes legitimate software.

The best way to stay safe and protect your system from unwanted intrusions is to use an up-to-date security suite with a full set of protection features.

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All Social New Tab may call the following URLs:

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