OhMyTabs Ads
Posted: June 8, 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: | 12,466 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 6,188 |
First Seen: | June 8, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
OhMyTabs is not a threatening program that can cause substantial system damage, but it may still make your time behind the PC unpleasant. The experts classify OhMyTabs as adware because its main purpose is to inject Web ads. OhMyTabs may attach towards the browsers of the client in the form of an extension. Since this unreliable software is cross-compatible, it may affect various Internet engines, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It will not be surprising at all if you didn't permit the installation of OhMyTabs, or at least you think so. OhMyTabs may travel hidden in the installation files of third-party software. The name of this approach is bundling. If you don't opt-out of loading suggested bonus apps, a single permission of yours will install all of them. You should use the 'Custom' menu to unmark the checkboxes of the suspicious programs likes OhMyTabs manually. The 'Quick' guides may not disclose detailed information about its components, which can explain why you cannot recall loading this adware. The primary function of OhMyTabs is to redirect you to sponsored domains. OhMyTabs may achieve this purpose via intrusive online ads that may obtain different shapes. Whenever you launch your browsers, you may encounter pop-ups, banners, in-text ads, interstitial and transitional ads. They may become very annoying with their persistence. Since they may originate from an extension and not directly from the visited sites, you may find them anywhere you go. The loading of these unwanted commercial materials may become a burden to your system. Some of the multimedia ads like videos and animations may consume so much of the free RAM that you may experience speed drops or crashes. The most important reason not to click on the offers and discounts by OhMyTabs concerns its partner network. Some of the sponsored domains may host cyber threats or try to take your money via popular tactics. You may be unable to delete OhMyTabs via traditional methods. If you encounter any errors, or the extension reappears automatically, you should eliminate OhMyTabs with a trustworthy security utility.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
Regexp file mask%WinDir%\System32\Tasks\OhMyTabsHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\OhMyTabsHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}OhMyTabs
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