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SportCenter Search Extension

Posted: December 19, 2017

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 8/10
Infected PCs: 65
First Seen: November 11, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The SportCenter Search Extension (also named SportCenter Home and SportCenter New Tab) is a dubious browser extension, which claims to give users the ability to find out the latest and most intriguing sports news from their Web browser directly. In addition to the news and articles, the SportCenter Search Extension is also meant to give its users the ability to access free online sports TV channels, therefore allowing them to watch events live. While all of this may sound useful, the truth is that the SportCenter Search Extension is not as great as its description makes it sound. Instead of offering all of these features, it will simply replace your default search aggregator with Movie.eanswers.com, therefore changing the way Chrome will search the Web.

The search engine works reliably, and users should continue to see legitimate results that are not mixed with unwanted ads, sponsored results, or other content that is unnecessary. However, this should not take your attention away from the fact that the SportCenter Search Extension does not offer anything of value, and you'd probably be better off not having it on your PC.

If you wish to eliminate the SportCenter Search Extension and revert the changes it brought, then you can do this via Google Chrome's settings menu manually. Also, since the SportCenter Search Extension is detected as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by many PC security scanners, your favorite security application also might be able to assist you with this PUP's removal.

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