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TheSearchGuard New Tab Extension

Posted: March 23, 2018

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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