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QuickFlightTracker Toolbar

Posted: October 22, 2018

The QuickFlightTracker Toolbar by MyWay.com is meant to provide users with a handy way to track flights and maybe even plan their flight for a future trip. However, this product has been categorized as a Potentially Unwanted Program ,and its installation might result in undesired changes to the configuration of popular Web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. One of the changes that the QuickFlightTracker Toolbar is known to bring concerns the default new tab page – this add-on might set it to hxxps://hp.myway.com/quickflighttracker/ttab02chr/index.html.

While this change is not harmful, users might not be happy with it since it forces them to use a new tab page that they are not used to. Furthermore, the MyWay.com search engines are not as reputable as Google, Bing or Yahoo, so it is safe to assuin orme that the search results they supply might not be the most credible. The new tab page, which the QuickFlightTracker Toolbar introduces will also provide you with the required flight tracking services. However, none of these services are affiliated with the QuickFlightTracker Toolbar's publisher and, instead, all that this extension does is to refer users to 3rd-party services and websites, which can be accessed without the installation of this add-on.

If you wish to remove the QuickFlightTracker Toolbar and use publicly available flight tracking services that do not require an installation, then you will be glad to hear that this task can be performed automatically with the help of a suitable PC security utility. The removal of this Potentially Unwanted Program should also revert the changes it made to your Web browser's default new tab page.

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