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Searchtabnew.com

Posted: December 15, 2016

Threat Metric

Ranking: 3,697
Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 18,575
First Seen: December 15, 2016
Last Seen: October 11, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


The Search Tab New is a Web browser extension that claims to provide users with an improved, more accurate and more intuitive way to search the Web. Unlike many other extensions of this sort, the Search Tab New is only compatible with Google Chrome, and users who rely on other Web browsers don't have to worry about seeing this extension on their computers. When the Search Tab New is installed, it asks for the users' permission to modify their default new tab page to 'Srchweb.com.' This page appears to be empty, but installing the Search Tab New extension does, indeed, change the default new tab to a custom search engine that is associated with the browser extension. Anti-virus vendors classify the Search Tab New as a browser hijacker and recommend its removal.

The website that the Search Tab New is meant to promote does offer some interesting features such as:

  • A customizable background that may be changed with one from the website's built-in gallery or any picture that the user chooses.
  • A collection of quick links to popular websites like Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook, eBay, Gmail, etc.
  • The ability to switch between different popular search engines quickly – Yahoo, Bing and Google.

While this website may be useful to some users, researchers don't support the usage of low-quality search pages that are promoted by dubious browser extensions. While the Search Tab New's website may seem legitimate at the moment, there's no guarantee that it will not be cluttered with ads in the future, or it will not start to deliver tampered search results. If you have the Search Tab New extension on your computer and it has modified your default new tab page, then it is recommended to eliminate the intrusive browser add-on, as well as to restore the previous value of your default new tab page.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathhttp_get.searchtabnew.com_0.localstoragehttp_get.searchtabnew.com_0.localstorage-journal

Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:
/searchtabnewa.comget.searchtabnew.comservices.searchtabnew.com
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