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Transit Guide Extension

Posted: May 2, 2018

The Transit Guide Extension is a product of Polarity Technologies LTD, and its installation is meant to provide users with access to a convenient set of tools, which can help them find the most convenient way to travel through cities via the public transportation system. While this might sound like a great utility to have at your disposal, just about every big city has a website meant to provide this information, and it is accessible publicly without the installation of 3rd-party software. Another reason why you might want to skip the Transit Guide Extension's installation is that this add-on has been classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) and its installation is known to bring unwanted changes to the configuration of popular Web browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Although the Transit Guide Extension is certainly not unsafe, having it installed will not get you into trouble. However, its installation can only be completed if you authorize it to replace your Web browser's default new tab page with an affiliated website. While this change is not meant to be harmful, the Web page promoted by the Transit Guide Extension might not be as credible as Google, Bing, Yahoo, or other commonly used new tab pages.

If you are happy with the Transit Guide Extension's services and are not bothered by the changes it brought, then there is no problem to continue using this add-on. However, if you find the Transit Guide Extension to be either useless or annoying, then you should proceed to remove it either manually or with the assistance of specialized PC security software.

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