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Cool Media Tab Ads

Posted: February 19, 2016

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 10/10
Infected PCs: 14
First Seen: February 19, 2016
Last Seen: September 11, 2021
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Cool Media Tab is an adware extension that may create a toolbar in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The Cool Media Tab may bombard your browsers with many new commercial materials, which may disrupt your surfing sessions. The developers of the Cool Media Tab promote it as a reliable program that should turn your Web clients into a 'TV Media Center.' Allegedly, the Cool Media Tab should provide you with access to various free online movies, streaming platforms, and optimize your media searches. In fact, all the Cool Media Tab does is redirect you towards third-party partner sites. Each successful transfer pays off for the creators of the Cool Media Tab in the form of a referral commission. Security specialists note that many of the affiliate sites may require registration and subscription for some of their features. Even if you enjoy their content, you should access them without the intermediation of the Cool Media Tab. This adware may make your online experience unpleasant. The majority of PC users may not appreciate the large quantity of pop-ups, banners and interstitial ads that the Cool Media Tab creates. Moreover, the alleged 'optimization' of your searches may involve replacing the most accurate results with links that lead to partners. The commercial materials may disrupt the performance of the browsers, causing random glitches, failures to load some pages, freezes or unexpected crashes. It all may happen because the multimedia ads may seize a lot of the available system resources. Opening a few tabs at once may cause some of the listed issues. The experts cannot verify that all partner sites of the Cool Media Tab are safe. It is possible for you to find yourself on fraudulent or corrupted pages after clicking on the new ads, which is why it is better to ignore them. If you didn't download the Cool Media Tab manually from coolmediatab.com, then the Cool Media Tab might have been bundled with other software. You should use a dedicated security tool to delete the unreliable toolbar and eliminate the unwanted ads.

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