What is TopSites Tab?
TopSites Tab is a Google Chrome browser extension which can be downloaded from its official website, the Chrome web store, or it might enter the system without permission. In any event, you will find it listed in the Add-ons Manager, so if you are not 100% sure whether changes you see applied to your Google Chrome browser are the result of the TopSites Tab extension entrance, go to check the list of add-ons. If this piece of software is active on your computer, you should remove it because, unfortunately, specialists working at anti-spyware-101.com cannot it call trustworthy. In addition, it is the only way to undo changes applied to your browser. Remove it even if you have found this browser extension quite useful. We do not say that it is a harmful malicious application that can cause serious harm to you, but it is, without a doubt, a potentially unwanted program. These applications are far from malicious software, but keeping them installed is still not recommended because they might perform undesirable activities, and, consequently, several issues might arise.
What does TopSites Tab do?
The majority of potentially unwanted applications we have analyzed are promoted as very beneficial software. The browser extension TopSites Tab is no exception. It promises to give users “a nice, clean and useful new tab page” and, on top of that, enable users to access those websites they visit the most frequently with a click of a button. This browser extension does not change users’ homepages and default search tools. It only changes the New Tab page. From this moment on, users see squares with websites they visit the most frequently when they open a new tab page. This also means that you will no longer see your preferred New Tab URL. You can bring the page you like back by removing TopSites Tab from your browser. As mentioned in the first paragraph, this piece of software is not a harmful malicious application; however, if you do not like it, find the changes applied undesirable, or it has been added to the list of add-ons of your browser without your permission, you should not let it stay, for sure. Last but not least, users should also remove TopSites Tab if they do not want this extension to access their web-browsing data and record various details about them.
Where does TopSites Tab come from?
There are two reasons why you have TopSites Tab enabled on your Google Chrome browser. First, you have downloaded it from http://lp.blpmovies.com/secondoffer.php?state=plain or the Chrome Web store. It has two links there: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/topsites-tab/opamlohahgnnkjpdjjjgbgldemnaoaob and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/topsites-tab/llkcejffbbhncfdofejibljdamlocopb. Also, there is a possibility that it has entered your PC illegally when you have clicked on some kind of commercial advertisement. In most cases, these advertisements are displayed on users’ screens by ad-supported applications (adware), so there is a huge possibility that your system is infected with this threat if you remember clicking on a commercial advertisement before finding TopSites Tab active on your computer. In most cases, TopSites Tab comes as an additional offer. Users usually see it when they install another extension. Of course, not all of them read information provided for them, so a number of people simply do not notice that they click on the ADD TO CHROME button on the TopSites New Tab – Additional Offer window. What we try to say here is that users themselves contribute to the entrance of undesirable software in most cases. Be more careful in the future! If you do not think that you can ensure the protection of your system alone, install a security application.
How to delete TopSites Tab
Potentially unwanted programs are not such threats that are hard to erase, so you should not find the TopSites Tab removal very complicated too. The only thing you have to do is to remove this piece of software via the Add-ons Manager. We know that this does not sound easy, especially if you have never removed an extension before, so we have prepared the manual removal guide for you – feel free to use it if you need some guidance. Alternatively, you can erase this extension with an automatic malware remover.
Delete TopSites Tab
Google Chrome
- Open Google Chrome.
- Tap Alt+F to open the browser’s menu and click More tools.
- Click Extensions.
- Select TopSites Tab and click on the Trash icon.
- Click Remove.
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