Online TV Streamer

Not all browser extensions are there to provide you with access to helpful features that aim to enhance your Web browsing sessions. Some of these add-ons may lie to their users by promising them great things. However, in reality, they plan to force their users to use a particular website on a daily basis, therefore boosting the ad revenue it is able to generate. A browser add-on that employs a strategy like this is the Online TV Streamer extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

It promises to provide its users with access to free online TV streams. However, users who install it may find out quickly that it does not host any working streams and, instead, it may refer them to poor-quality streaming websites that can be accessed without using a special extension. Furthermore, the installation of the Online TV Streamer also will bring some changes to the user's Web browser. This add-on will reconfigure the browser to use the Query.watchonlinestreamsnowtab.com page for all searches initiated through the address bar, and it also will set Search.watchonlinestreamsnowtab.com as the default new tab page.

Security researchers categorize this add-on as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP,) and users of reputable PC security products are likely to be warned that its installation is not recommended. If your computer is not protected sufficiently, and you have installed the Online TV Streamer extension, then you may be wondering whether its presence is threatening. You can rest assured that Online TV Streamer is not harmful, but it is normal to find the changes it makes to be annoying. If you wish to revert your browser's settings to their previous state, then you should take care of the Online TV Streamer's removal as soon as possible.