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Sports Addict New Tab

Posted: August 10, 2016

Threat Metric

Ranking: 8,388
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 50,688
First Seen: August 10, 2016
Last Seen: February 24, 2025
OS(es) Affected: Windows


The Sports Addict New Tab is a Web browser extension that is supposed to provide users with the latest sports news, updates and rumors. This may seem like an attractive utility to have at your disposal, but you may want to double check the Sports Addict New Tab's reliability and functionality. Despite its claims, this extension may be useless! All it does is include quick links to several popular sports news websites that can be reached without the help of 3rd-party extensions like the Sports Addict New Tab. Furthermore, the installation of this utility may change Google Chrome's default new tab page to a search engine linked to http://search.mysearch.com. The Sports Addict New Tab is identified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that isn't threatening, but may lead to unwanted changes to your Web browser's settings.

The new tab page that the Sports Addict New Tab promotes includes a simple search field accompanied by quick links to popular sports news outlets. All links published on the page that the Sports Addict New Tab promotes are legitimate, but users might want to reconsider using this page's search feature. The search results the Sports Addict New Tab provides may be mixed with sponsored links that may lead users to irrelevant content.

Since the Sports Addict New Tab may not introduce any valuable features with its installation, and it even has the audacity to change the browser's default new tab page, there's no legitimate reason to keep using this browser extension. The Sports Addict New Tab should be removed swiftly by uninstalling it from the list of installed browser extensions or by scanning your computer wth a reliable anti-malware application.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathhttp_sportsaddict.dl.mysearch.com_0.localstoragehttp_sportsaddict.dl.mysearch.com_0.localstorage-journal

Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:
sportsaddict.thewhizproducts.com
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