Charming-tab.com Redirects - How to remove

Charming-tab.com is a website that redirects searches, usually to Bing.com. It appears in web browsers thanks to a misbehaving browser extension. To stop the Charming-tab.com redirects it is enough to find and disable the offending extension. If Charming Tab is installed, it’s best to remove it. That said, don’t stress – Charming-tab.com is not dangerous, beyond collecting a lot of information about each user’s browsing habits.

About Charming-tab.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Charming-tab.com hijacks searches	A browser extension changes search settings or interferes with certain websites, opening Charming-tab.com and passing it your search query.
How browser hijackers get installed	Bundled with free programs, advertised online, Charming-tab.com redirects are not disclosed.
Removing Charming-tab.com	Disable and remove suspicious browser extensions, find and delete malware with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and other antivirus apps, block notifications.

How to stop Charming-tab.com redirects

Disable your browser extensions one-by-one until Charming-tab.com redirects stop. Instructions for how to do that can be found below.

Another thing to check is your default search engine setting. This should be under your control. Set it to whatever site you like. The instructions for this are also below.

If any extension refuses to be deleted, check out this post on how to remove extensions that abuse the enterprise policy (by changing configuration profiles on Macs or registry entries on PCs). If your browser is showing pop-up ads, look into blocking web push notifications.

Watch out for malicious extensions in the future. Check your browser extensions and other programs for any suspicious items by using an anti-malware app, like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

What causes Charming-tab.com redirects

Adware browser extensions

Some people experienced Charming-tab.com/search redirecting their searches, usually to Bing.com. Charming-tab.com takes your search query and sends it off to Bing after adding a referral tag. This is not dangerous but it’s quite annoying and disruptive.

It is various browser extensions that cause browsers to redirect searches to Charming-tab.com/search. People have mentioned a volume amplifier, an ad blocker, and a bunch of other extensions that do this sort of thing.

Search redirects through Charming-tab.com are done to make some advertising money, it’s as simple as that. Free browser extensions are monetized by their authors, sometimes in ways that are unhelpful to the user. Ad-injection, new tab hijacking, and search redirects are common ways that the owners of free extensions make money. Sometimes, extensions are updated to include the Charming-tab.com “feature” and thus, a good old extension turns into a search hijacker.

There is also a browser extension called Charming Tab that changes the default new tab to show a random beautiful picture. It features a search box but it is not usually the extension that’s responsible for Charming-tab.com redirects. Still, with that reputation, it would be best to stay away from Charming Tab and related websites and browser extensions, such as Beauty Tab, Incredible Tab, ClockTab, New Tab Splash, and others.

Strangely, analysis sites show that there’s some common traffic between Charming-tab.com and Trovi.com, Searchmulty.com, Becovi.com – other browser hijackers. The malicious browser hijackers probably change up which sites they send you to.

A bit of spyware

According to Charming-tab.com’s privacy policy, this site collects information about each user:

• If you use a Charming-tab.com-related extension, your demographic information may be collected.
• Your visited websites (including ones from before Charming-tab.com appeared on your browser), the ads you see, the searches you performed, what you click on.
• Technical information to identify your computer.

Charming-tab.com promises to not use your personal information for advertisement. The rest, though, is used to target ads to your interests. These ads can appear not just on Charming-tab.com but on other websites, as well.

Permissions to watch out for

Each browser extension has permissions that define what the extension is capable of. Search hijackers usually take advantage of one or more of these permissions:

• Replace the page you see when opening a new tab – this allows the extension to place its own search box on the new tab page.
• Change your default search engine settings – changes what site the browser opens when you search in the address bar.
• Read and change your data on all sites or only on a few sites (Google.com, Bing.com, Duckduckgo.com, etc.).

Charming-tab.com redirects may be implemented in different ways by different browser extensions. Check your browser settings and what permissions each extension uses.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopHow To remove Charming-tab.com Redirects from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Charming-tab.com Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Charming-tab.com Redirects from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Charming-tab.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Charming-tab.com Redirects from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Charming-tab.com Redirects related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Charming-tab.com Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.