Tabs000.online

By GoldSparrow in Browser Hijackers

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 50 % (Medium)
Infected Computers: 2
First Seen: August 30, 2016
Last Seen: September 17, 2018
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Tabs000.online domain is associated with a browser plug-in that you may have been offered to install to improve your search functionality. The browser plug-in linked to Tabs000.online may have landed on your PC along with Vaudix and NavSmart. The software from Tabs000.online is recognized as a browser hijacker that may claim to improve your Internet experience by redirecting you to a custom search engine at Tabs000.online and provide secure links to popular services. The Tabs000.online portal may have links to YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, and Amazon that may be rigged to open transitional page advertisements and new tabs when you click on them. The Tabs000.online browser hijacker may alter the behavior of browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. This browser hijacker may appear in your 'Control Panel' under the name TabCool and run in the background continuously.

While the TabCool browser hijacker is running, you may experience redirects to sponsored items on eBay and Amazon, as well as goods at AliExpress. The TabCool browser hijacker may change your DNS configuration to make sure that you are not using a search service from competitors and reroute you to Tabs000.online. The search engine at Tabs000.online is of poor quality and users will be provided with text and image results only. The results at Tabs000.online may be accompanied by a logo saying that Google Inc. supports Tabs000.online, but that is not true. The TabCool plug-in and the Tabs000.online portal are not affiliated with Google, and you should avoid using them. You can remove all data related to Tabs000.online and TabCool by using a reliable anti-malware application to clean your PC.

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