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Track My Flight New Tab

Posted: December 14, 2017

Threat Metric

Ranking: 7,456
Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 3,883
First Seen: July 9, 2017
Last Seen: October 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Track My Flight New Tab is a browser add-on by Polarity Technologies LTD, which offers to give users the ability to track flights in real time. Although this may sound like a handy utility to have at your disposal, we'd like to inform you that there are plenty of free sites and services that can provide you with the same information without asking you to install 3rd-party software. Just like many other of Polarity's software products, the Track My Flight New Tab is also classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP), and you should not be surprised if your anti-malware software suite recommends this add-on's removal.

Once installed the Track My Flight New Tab, also will replace the user's default new tab with Search.htrackmyflight.co. This search engine does not provide any extra features, and its search function isn't anything spectacular either. In fact, using the Track My Flight New Tab's search will lead users to a results page hosted on Yahoo Search. The results displayed by Yahoo Search are reliable, but they may sometimes include ads and, in addition to this, Search.htrackmyflight.co also may collect anonymous user data and use it for various marketing purposes.

Since the Track My Flight New Tab is not helpful at all and all it does is replace the browser's new tab, it is likely that most users will find this add-on useless and annoying. If you want to remove the Track My Flight New Tab and revert the changes it applied, then you can accomplish that by using a reputable anti-virus tool or uninstall the Track My Flight New Tab through your Web browser's settings panel manually.

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The following URL's were detected:
https://query.htrackmyflight.co/s?uid=https://query.trackmyflight.co/s?uid=
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