Check My Email Tab - How to remove

Check My Email Tab is installed on the computers of over ten thousand users. You can find its home page on Hcheckmyemail.co – it’s the page that Check My Email Tab sets when it is installed. Check My Email Tab is sold as helping you access your email account and other useful websites quickly, but its main goal and function is to get you to use the sponsored Yahoo search.

In short about Check My Email Tab:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
Problems with Check My Email Tab	May get installed without your consent, changes browser settings to manipulate your browsing, collects usage data and helps third parties show you relevant ads.
How it gets installed	Bundled with free programs, promoted by other extensions, promoted by adware infections.
Remove Check My Email Tab manually	Uninstall unwanted browser extensions, scan your computer with anti-malware tools (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.) to check for potentially unwanted programs.

What is Check My Email Tab

Check My Email Tab is a browser extension – a little program that adds functions to a web browser or changes its existing settings. It is an infection of a web browser. It causes issues with your internet browser, but that doesn’t cross over to the rest of your computer. Still, if you discover Check My Email Tab or a similar item in your web browser, it’s better to remove it. Pretty much the only goal of these extensions is to get you to visit their affiliated sites, driving up their traffic and making them more advertising money. Some of the companies behind browser hijackers are ad-tech companies.

Hcheckmyemail.co on its own is a very poor extension: all it does is change your new tab page to one with a few links to email login sites – Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail. Considering you can customize your default new tab page more than what Check My Email Tab does for you, it’s clear that not a lot of effort was put into making it a good extension.

The most important part of Hcheckmyemail.co is the search bar in the middle. If you use it to search the web, a Yahoo.com page opens with your web search results. That’s the sponsored search that Check My Email Tab’s makers make money off of.

To improve the search results and show you personalized ads, Check My Email Tab collects a bit of data on your habits:

• your IP, location, and your internet service provider,
• your computer model, operating system, and browser version,
• your browser extensions before and after Check My Email Tab was installed.

This is according to Check My Email Tab’s privacy policy. The collected data may be shared with advertisers to help them show you ads.

Check My Email Tab is made by Eightpoint Technologies, just like TV Streaming Online, Game Finder Pro, Local Classified Ads, etc. All these extensions do about the same stuff:

• change the new tab page,
• read your browsing history,
• offer sponsored search (on Yahoo.com),
• send you notifications.

There is the risk of Check My Email Tab showing you malicious ads that infect your computer with malware, so if you see excessive ads and/or your computer becomes slower, scan your computer with an antivirus tool.

How Check My Email Tab spreads

Check My Email Tab may have been installed on your device by a bundler. Bundlers are free programs that install additional software that paid to be included in the setup package. This is a way that some free programs are monetized, and it’s not always great for us users.

Another option is Check My Email Tab being offered with other browser extensions. Ezloginnow.com is very typical of that. It’s the kind of web page that is sometimes opened after you finish installing a browser extension. Since the button for Check My Email Tab’s installation says “Continue”, it may trick people into thinking that this is another screen of the previous installation. Be careful with screens like that.

Finally, extensions like Check My Email Tab get advertised online. On random websites, but also often by other adware. Browser hijackers and adware viruses capable of injecting ads often include ads for hijackers like Check My Email Tab at the top of your internet search results. If that happened to you, check your computer for malware and check your other browser extensions. There might be something suspicious there.

How to remove Check My Email Tab

Check My Email Tab may have got you to agree to get its notifications. They look like pop-ups in your browser labeled as sent by Ezloginnow.com or Hcheckmyemail.co. You can stop them by going to your browser settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• New Edge – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

There, you will see all of the sites that you have allowed (on purpose or accidentally) to send you notification pop-ups, like Hcheckmyemail.co or Ezloginnow.com. You can open the little menu next to each address and choose to Block notifications. You can always change these settings if you want to, so don’t worry if you misclick or aren’t sure about your choice.

Next, you might want to scan your computer with an antivirus tool, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows. The scan should tell you if there’s any malware or potentially unwanted programs on your device.

You can manually remove Check My Email Tab by following the instructions below or the instructions provided on Hcheckmyemail.co (there’s an Uninstall button at the bottom of the page). The process is the same as it is for all browser extensions.

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TopRemoving Check My Email Tab from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Check My Email Tab. Click on the trash bin icon next to Check My Email Tab or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Check My Email Tab, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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 Check My Email Tab from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Check My Email Tab. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Check My Email Tab or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.