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Simple New Tab Ads

Posted: October 27, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 1,910
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 18,704
First Seen: October 27, 2015
Last Seen: March 9, 2025
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Simple New Tab is a useless web add-on that you should not install. First of all, it doesn't offer any feature that your browser cannot achieve, so you don’t need third-party software. Second, this plugin is adware, which means that its developers may benefit from some rather intrusive online ads. The Simple New Tab should let you customize new tabs of your web clients. You should be able to place your favorite site there. All of the popular browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer have this function in their engines, so there is no need to download any additional extension. When you know that the Simple New Tab lacks real functionality, it is not surprising that its creators may spread it in software bundles alongside freeware. This fact explains why the unreliable add-on may evade the attention of the PC users sometimes. The adware may change your default homepage automatically. The first site to notice when you launch your browser may be an unknown search platform. You should abstain from using such sites because they may display manipulated results to generate traffic towards their partners. The Simple New Tab may inserts ads in various formats: you may detect some pop-ups, banners or videos that start as soon as you enter the page. After the installation of this extension, your browser may start working more slowly than usual due to the resource consumption from the multimedia elements. A particularly worrying aspect of this adware is that it may transfer you to unsafe sites that you should avoid. The ads by the Simple New Tab cannot be disabled as long as the add-on is present, so you should use reliable security software to delete it.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

CLSID{5C2DD58F-613F-4580-8AC0-F10D760AF938}{8DAA9564-C7BF-43E1-ADB9-17B44DA980A6}{B47A69DE-9B38-4EC0-996E-99F90C0F8CA5}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{5C2DD58F-613F-4580-8AC0-F10D760AF938}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions\{59F39B89-94C3-44C5-B903-9A6B85C32921}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{5C2DD58F-613F-4580-8AC0-F10D760AF938}Software\SimpleNewTabSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{5C2DD58F-613F-4580-8AC0-F10D760AF938}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\simple_new_tab%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\simple_new_tab
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