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MySportTab

Posted: January 15, 2018

Threat Metric

Ranking: 1,016
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 4,822
First Seen: May 19, 2023
Last Seen: October 14, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


MySportTab is a browser add-on, which is advertised as a convenient utility that allows its users to receive news, media content, score updates, results, and other sports-related information in their web browser instantly. While this might sound useful, you should know that none of the content that MySportTab provides is hosted on a website related to the extension's publisher and, instead, all it does is to summarize articles and updates from other websites, and then display the embedded in the new tab page that MySportTab is meant to promote.

The installation of MySportTab demands permission to modify the default new tab page of your Web browser. If you do not approve this, you can't proceed with the installation of MySportTab and you will not get access to any of the add-on's 'features.' Overall, it appears that MySportTab's primary purpose is to generate traffic for the new tab page it promotes.

The MySportTab extension is marked as a 'Potentially Unwanted Program' (PUP) by malware researchers. This means that this software is safe to use, but its installation might bring unforeseen changes to your computer's behavior (in this case, an unwelcome change to your browser's configuration). If you've installed the MySportTab, and you are not satisfied with the set of features and changes it introduced, then we suggest that you consider removing it as soon as possible. To ensure that this PUP is uninstalled properly, you should either use your Web browser's integrated add-on manager or a 3rd-party PC security tool.

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