Email Access Online

By GoldSparrow in Potentially Unwanted Programs

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 3,111
Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 6,756
First Seen: January 16, 2017
Last Seen: September 20, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Email Access Online extension is a product published by Polarity Technologies Ltd. that offers services licensed to Eightpoint Technologies Ltd. The Email Access Online extension is available to Web surfers that run Google Chrome on their system. The Email Access Online extension has an official page that you can access at Search.emailaccessonline.com/Home/. The Email Access Online program requires integration with your browser to offer its services that include a redesigned new tab and a custom search field powered by Yahoo. You might find a copy of the Email Access Online that is named Email OnlineV2 on the Chrome Webstore, which refers to emailonline.co and offers the same functionality. The Email Access Online app is aimed at users who have accounts with multiple email services like Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo. At the time of writing this, the Email Access Online has a user base of twenty-five people, and the app is promoted via freeware bundles, ads shown by adware, and clean ads on browser extension platforms.

You may be interested to know that the Email Access Online is a re-packed version of MyEmailXP, which was released by Polarity Technologies Ltd. back in June 2015 and followed by another re-pack named Fast Email Checker released in May 2016. If search.myemailxp.com and search.emailaccessonline.com are loaded, you may be unable to spot the differences because they are clones. Polarity Technologies Ltd. and Eightpoint Technologies Ltd. are known to deploy riskware under new names that change your new tab and invites the user to access a customized Yahoo engine, which earns a profit for them. The new tab offered with Email Access Online is identical to the one provided with MyEmailXP and includes safe links to services like Gmail, Amazon, YouTube and Facebook. However, your traffic is rerouted via search.emailaccessonline.com and your input on Yahoo is recorded to help affiliated advertisers push relevant promotional offers to your new tab page and supported sites.

Email Access Online by Polarity Technologies Ltd. is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that may show links to useful services and provide targeted advertisements on your new tab page based on your location, Internet history, downloads log and profile on social media. Web surfers that install Email Access Online may see ads that feature the slogan 'Brought by Email Access Online' and may be invited to disable extensions like Ghostery and Adblock Plus. If you are not satisfied with the behavior of Email Access Online you may want to remove it via the Extensions Manager and install a reputable anti-spyware scanner that can erase the tracking cookies downloaded by Email Access Online.

URLs

Email Access Online may call the following URLs:

.hquickemailaccess.co
config.emailaccessonline.com
https://query.emailaccessonline.com/s?uid=

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