What is Home.myflightapp.com?
Keeping all travelling-related links at hand may be useful if you look for new destinations on a regular basis. Home.myflightapp.com a search engines aimed at helping you book and track flights; however, this search engine is categorized as a browser hijacker by some malware researchers, who recommend removing it from the browser. The search engine is spread and set as the homepage of the browser by a browser extension named My Flight App, which is compatible with the Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsers. Some researchers categorize the browser extension as a potentially unwanted program (PUP).
If you do not remember installing this application or being asked to approve its installation, it is likely that you either ignored the installation process or have had the browsers hijacked surreptitiously. In any case, we suggest that you remove Home.myflightapp.com from your browsers.
How does Home.myflightapp.com spread?
Home.myflightapp.com is set as the homepage of Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome, and as the startup page of new tabs on the Chrome browser. The browser extension making changes on these browsers is available on the Chrome Web Store, which, unfortunately, is not the only source of the application. All the browsers can get affected by My Flight App after clicking on some pop-up advertisement displayed by malware. If, for example, you are sure that you have not installed anything lately, you should think carefully whether you have encountered any questionable pop-ups. Consider checking your operating system’s security status to make sure that no more serious threats are running in the background.
How does Home.myflightapp.com work?
The website Home.myflightapp.com contains four links to flight booking and monitoring websites below the URL address box and four links below the search box located in the center of the page. The links offered by the toolbar of the search engine take you to cheapoair.com, flightaware.com, flightstats.com, and Google Maps. The websites enable you to find flights, monitor airplanes traffic, and check various geographical locations. When browsing the website flightstats.com, ignore the third-party web banners displayed on the different pages of the site. In general, websites displaying third-party ads usually disclaim responsibility for the content displayed by third parties, which are also managed by separate policies. Hence, do not trust web banners offering unknown services or products not to get deceived into downloading malware or exposing your personal information.
The very search tool of Home.myflightapp.com is another reason why you should restore your former browser settings. Home.myflightapp.com cannot offer you any unique search results because it is programmed to retrieve results from Yahoo. Additionally, Home.myflightapp.com displays paid links, which are displayed in the most noticeable location, that is, above the natural search results and on the right side of the page. Paid advertisements are displayed when given search terms are used, and you may also find some paid links to website that have nothing in common which your search query. Such search providers should be removed for your own online safety, so that you do not get accidentally deceived by an ill-purposed website.
It has also been observed that the application My Flight App could change the homepage to search.searchismfa.com, which offers users a slightly different toolbar and links to social media websites and email services. The search engine Search.searchismfa.com also retrieves Yahoo search-based results accompanied by paid links.
How to remove Home.myflightapp.com?
Removing Home.myflightapp.com does not take much time. If you choose to remove Home.myflightapp.com manually, you will have to uninstall it using the Control Panel utility if your Internet Explorer is affected. And this step is just one part of the manual removal. The other browsers are modified through the Extensions/Add-on managers. All of this can be escaped if you choose automatic removal. To have Home.myflightapp.com removed, all that you need is an anti-malware program. Not only will you have the unwanted application and search engine removed, you will also be protected from various threats aimed at making some use of you and your unprotected computer.
Remove Home.myflightapp.com
Internet Explorer
- Click the Start menu.
- Start typing Control Panel (Win 8/Win 10) or click Control Panel (older versions).
- Under Programs, select Uninstall a program.
- Remove the unwanted program.
Mozilla Firefox
- Click the menu button located in the upper-right corner of the browser.
- Select Add-ons.
- Select Extensions and Themes from the left-hand side panel.
- Click on the unwanted browser application and click the Remove button.
Google Chrome
- Click the icon with three dots.
- Select More tools.
- Click Extensions.
- Remove the unwanted application.
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