What is MixSportTV Search Plus?
If you cannot imagine your daily life without watching various sports events, you might think that MixSportTV Search Plus is a good browser extension. Judging from its name, it should help you find sports contents online. However, our research specialists say that this application is a potentially unwanted program, and potentially unwanted programs might come with a number of unwanted features. The point is that it would be for the best to remove MixSportTV Search Plus from your browser, especially if you did not intend to have this extension in the first place. Once you remove it, do not forget to scan your PC with SpyHunter.
Where does MixSportTV Search Plus come from?
Browser extensions often have official sources, so it is not really possible to call them malicious infections. What’s more, it requires user’s permission to enter a target system, so unless you allow MixSportTV Search Plus inside, the extension would not be able to work on your browser.
At the same time, some users might say that they never intended to have this application, so how on earth it managed to enter their computer? Well, aside from mix.tvnoop.com/sport and the Chrome Web Store, this extension has several other distribution sources. In fact, it is very common for such programs to arrive via third-party routes, rather than the official ones.
Our research suggests that MixSportTV Search Plus can come from website ads, fake download links, and redirects. For example, if you access a website that is full of random outgoing links or flashy ads, clicking those links could automatically offer this extension. It is very often that such applications are offered through pop-up messages that are very persistent. It might seem that you cannot close them unless you add the likes of MixSportTV Search Plus to your browser. The truth is that you can close the pop-up by closing the browser window. If you cannot close it by clicking the Close button, you can kill the process by pressing Alt+F4.
What does MixSportTV Search Plus do?
Although the name of this application is very fancy, at the core of things, MixSportTV Search Plus is just a search engine. According to the official information, it is “a powerful search engine, offering you a variety of unique feature and search tools.” With those tools, you can “easily keep up to date with sport TV channels and search the web.” The question is, however, whether you really need a third-party search engine in order to search for such content. After all, MixSportTV Search Plus does not offer you anything different from the most common search engines. It might seem more customized, but it doesn’t mean that you would get more relevant search results.
In fact, it wouldn’t be surprising if MixSportTV Search Plus if employed tracking cookies to collect information on your web browsing habits. This information is necessary to provide custom search results, and the application will do it mostly by utilizing the Yahoo! Search page. Please note that Yahoo! Search is not related to this extension in any way. The page is merely used by the program. When such apps use known trademarks, it makes them look reliable. Are they reliable though? That is an entirely different question.
It is clear that MixSportTV Search Plus does not try to infect you with malware or anything, but the application also cannot ensure that you will encounter only reliable content. Anyone can embed their links into the search results that MixSportTV Search Plus displays. Consequently, malevolent third parties could also embed their links that redirect you to potentially harmful web pages. Thus, you need to avoid such links no matter what.
How do I remove MixSportTV Search Plus?
To protect yourself from unwanted content, you should remove MixSportTV Search Plus from your browser today. You can find the manual removal instructions right below this description. At the same time, you should also run a full system scan with a reliable antispyware tool. There is a good chance that you have more than one unwanted application installed, and so it would be for the best to remove them all. Afterwards, protect your system from other unwanted programs by employing safe web browsing habits. After all, your system’s security should be one of your top priorities.
Manual MixSportTV Search Plus Removal
- Open the Chrome browser.
- Press Alt+F and click More tools.
- Open Extensions.
- Remove mixSportTV Search Plus from the list.
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