Flight Tab Pro Adware - How to remove

Flight Tab Pro is a web browser extension made by Innover Group and, once installed, it replaces your new tab page and puts there a search bar that takes you to Yahoo.com. It is just another hijacker, an adware virus made to take advantage of users by spamming them with unwanted ads. Flight Tab Pro targets people from the USA and is advertised on alternative search engines, clickbait sites, and flight and travel websites.

In short about Flight Tab Pro:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems with Flight Tab Pro	Reads your browsing history, hijacks your browser’s new tab page, gets installed without your permission.
How adware spreads	Advertised by adware viruses, promoted on low-quality sites, advertised on flight trackers.
Remove Flight Tab Pro	Manually remove unwanted extensions, use an anti-malware tool to get rid fo adware (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for macOS, Malwarebytes, etc.), block unwanted web push notifications.

Flight Tab Pro Newtab virus

Flight Tab Pro installs as a browser extension with these permissions:

• read and change your data on flighttabpro.com,
• replace the page you see when opening a new tab,
• read your browsing history.

Flighttabpro.com has a new tab page that includes a search box in the middle of the page, a flight tracking pop-up, and links to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Wikipedia. The search bar opens Yahoo.com, no surprise there.

From these features, we can see that Flight Tab Pro is a traditional Newtab virus. These programs hijack browsers to direct people to related sites so that they can raise their ad revenue. Whatever the front features are – checking flight status, converting files, editing your photos – they’re just an excuse to release a new extension. Innover has a few, including Manuals Aid, Maps Assist, Ezy Photo Tab, and a ton of others. The “features” are super limited, the equivalent of a bookmark, and do not merit a browser extension.

How the adware got installed

Flight Tab Pro is advertised online. You can encounter its ads on:

• legitimate flight status checker sites,
• clickbait sites – the ones that you find at the bottom of many legitimate sites,
• on alternative search engines, like Info.com and Searchincognito.com, which are symptoms of other adware infections.

These ads are quite deceptive. Flighttabpro.com at first looks like a real flight tracking site, but if you try to use it, it tries to get you to install a browser extension called Flight Tab Pro. It’s especially easy to fall for it on Firefox, but nearly fifteen thousand people got it on their Chrome, too.

In addition, Flighttabpro.com asks visitors to allow its notifications, then uses that to spam unwanted pop-up ads and make even more ad-money.

How to remove Flight Tab Pro

To deal with the Flight Tab Pro adware, there are a few things to do:

• uninstall the extension,
• block the notifications,
• check your computer for adware and remove it if any is found.

First, if you have sync turned on in your browser, you might need to temporarily disable it or else Flight Tab Pro will get reinstalled. Next, simply right-click Flight Tab Pro’s icon in your browser’s UI or open the settings and go to the Extensions section. There, choose to remove all the extensions that you want to get rid of.

If you can’t find Flight Tab Pro in your extensions list but you know that it’s installed, that’s a bit more complicated. You may be able to delete the local files of the extension after looking up files named by its number, which you can see by turning on the Developer mode switch in the Extensions screen. Check this How-To Geek article for more.

Manually deleting files is a bit complicated and risky, so using automatic tools is sometimes a better option. Programs like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macoS, Malwarebytes, and others can find malicious browser extensions and most adware infections, so it’s recommended to scan your machine just in case.

But removing Flight Tab Pro won’t stop its pop-up spam. To block the ads by Flighttabpro.com, you need to find it in the list of sites that can send you web push notifications, open the menu next to it, and choose the “Block” option. Here’s how you can open the notifications settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• 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.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove unwanted extensions

TopRemoving Flight Tab Pro Adware 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 Flight Tab Pro Adware. Click on the trash bin icon next to Flight Tab Pro Adware 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 Flight Tab Pro Adware, 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 Flight Tab Pro Adware 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 Flight Tab Pro Adware. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Flight Tab Pro Adware 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.

How To remove Flight Tab Pro Adware 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 Flight Tab Pro Adware 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 Flight Tab Pro Adware, 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.