TvNewTab
Posted: May 3, 2016
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Ranking: | 14,942 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 600 |
First Seen: | May 3, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | August 14, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
TvNewTab is an ad-oriented extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, which you may wish to avoid. TvNewTab doesn't exhibit any threatening symptoms, but may still make your time on the computer far less enjoyable. This unreliable application may create a variety of commercial materials, which the majority of PC users may perceive as aggressive. In theory, TvNewTab should help you find new streaming websites. According to its developers, TvNewTab should let people watch free movies and TV shows. In reality, this extension may read your surfing history to find out what may be interesting to you. After that, TvNewTab may adjust the commercial materials to meet your current needs. Since this adware has a pretty extensive partner network, TvNewTab can always find a site that you may find appealing. TvNewTab may try to redirect you to pages for plane tickets, bookstores or platforms for online games. In all cases, however, the presence of pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads and embedded videos may cause you annoyance. First of all, you may encounter these commercial materials during your surfing sessions consistently. Second, their loading may require much of the available system's resources. As a result, the whole browser may start operating in a sluggish manner. The greatest risk of keeping TvNewTab concerns the security of your PC. Nothing can guarantee that all of the displayed coupons and offers are safe. In some cases, the sponsored links may take you to dubious sites that may attempt to infect your system or trick you. Some people may not enjoy that TvNewTab may change a lot of settings automatically. TvNewTab may replace your homepage with a low-quality search provider that may show manipulated results. Not all installations of this adware are properly authorized by PC users. In some cases, TvNewTab may enter hidden in software bundles silently. You should scan your system with an advanced security application to delete TvNewTab.
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