Discover My Ancestry

The Discover My Ancestry is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP), which serves as a browser extension for Google Chrome. According to its official website and the description found on the Chrome Store, the Discover My Ancestry is meant to help users learn more about their name, ancestry, and other interesting information that they can access by utilizing the service offered by the Discover My Ancestry. While this might sound like a great opportunity, the data that the Discover My Ancestry provides is likely to be quite generic, since providing proper ancestry information is impossible without genetic testing. Furthermore, you also should remember that the Discover My Ancestry is featured on the databases of multiple anti-virus product vendors, which have classified this add-on as a Potentially Unwanted Program.

The installation of the Discover My Ancestry also might turn out to cause a minor but irritating problem – the extension is meant to replace the Google Chrome's default new tab page with a 3rd-party website. The change is not unsafe, but it might have an adverse impact on the quality of your Web searches. Furthermore, the new tab page that the Discover My Ancestry offers is how you are meant to gain access to the features promised by the add-on – it contains links to 3rd-party pages and services regarding one's ancestry, name and other information.

If you do not wish to use the Discover My Ancestry's features or the new tab page it promotes, then you should proceed to uninstall this extension either manually or with the help of a trustworthy PC security software suite.