TheSearchGuard New Tab Extension
Posted: March 23, 2018
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
| Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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| Infected PCs: | 51 |
| First Seen: | February 15, 2025 |
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| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
TheSearchGuard New Tab Extension is a browser add-on whose purpose seems to be to enhance the privacy of its users by protecting their Web searches. While this might sound like a great privacy-enhancing tool to have at your disposal, you should know that TheSearchGuard New Tab Extension's installation might be accompanied by some unwanted changes to your Web browser's configuration. While the changes in question are not unsafe, they might have an adverse impact on the quality of your Web browsing experience, as well as prevent you from receiving reputable search results.
The website that TheSearchGuard New Tab Extension attempts to promote by setting it as either the default new tab or search aggregator is found at Search.thesearchguard.com. The page delivers results via the Yahoo Search so that it is safe to assume that it can be used safely at the moment. However, neither TheSearchGuard New Tab Extension nor the website in question is affiliated with a reputable company so that we can't vouch for their reliability in the long run.
If you have installed TheSearchGuard New Tab Extension and you are not happy with the changes it brought, then we advise you to consider its immediate removal. The easiest way to handle this task is to use a trustworthy anti-virus software suite, which should be capable of removing this Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) and the files associated with it.
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