Mediatab.club Hijacker - How to remove

Mediatab.club is a website related to the Media Tab browser extension. It might appear in your browser unexpectedly and take over the internet search or replace your new tab page. Mediatab.club is not dangerous, but it’s unhelpful, lacks features, and is potentially bad for privacy.

To stop Mediatab.club from showing up, remove the Media Tab extension.

Mediatab.club in short:

Classification	Browser hijacker.
How Media Tab changes the browser	It replaces the new tab page, it changes the default search engine,it tracks user data.
Problems and issues	Mediatab.club’s new tab page lacks features, it restricts the search engine to Bing, Yahoo, or another site.
How to remove Mediatab.club	Uninstall the Media Tab extension, if needed, scan your computer with antivirus programs (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.) to find and remove other adware, check the search engine settings in your browser and repair them, if needed.

How does Mediatab.club work?

Media Tab changes browser settings

Media Tab is made by ShakeApps Ltd., the same company that made Food Tab.

It is a browser add-on, or rather, multiple add-ons. They either replace your default search engine (the site that appears when you type a search query into your address bar) or change your home page to Mediatab.club. You can see that in the permission pop-ups that the Media Tab extensions show during their installation:

Mediatab.club replaces the new tab page

As a new tab page, Mediatab.club is very limited. It has a search box and a few links to popular websites (Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, etc.). You can type search queries into the search box and Mediatab.club sends them to Yahoo or Bing. You can’t change that, you also can’t change the pinned links that are featured on the Mediatab.club new tab.

According to Media Tab’s description on the Chrome Web Store, it “gives you quick access to the most popular websites”. However, not everyone uses the same “popular” websites. This extension gives users no options to customize their new tab.

This is in contrast to default new tabs in the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and other browsers. These new tab pages allow users to customize the appearance of their home page, most importantly which links are pinned to the page.

In other words, by forcing Mediatab.club to be the new tab page, the Media Tab extension takes away features from web browsers.

Mediatab.club replaces the default search engine

Some versions of the Media Tab extension don’t replace the new tab page, but change the browser’s default search engine. If you use your address bar to search the web, then Mediatab.club catches your search queries and sends them to whichever site it wants.

You might notice a few addresses loading and forwarding to each other. Search queries no longer go directly to your favorite search engine, but are sent from site to site. This can delay the appearance of the search results.

This also has privacy implications. In addition to Yahoo, Bing, or whatever other sites Mediatab.club might open, logging your data, not Mediatab.club can track you, too.

How Mediatab.club makes money

You might wonder why the Media Tab extension would force users to visit Yahoo search.

While Yahoo is a fine search engine, it gets forced on users by many shady browser extensions. This is because Yahoo allows extensions to make money by forwarding their users to Yahoo search.

Media Tab and many other browser add-ons hijack people’s search settings in order to make money. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, as long as users are informed about it before installing the extension. But Mediatab.club lacks any useful features that would justify its monetization.

How to stop Mediatab.club redirects

Uninstall Media Tab, the browser extension that is responsible for showing Mediatab.club on your screen. You can do it by following the instructions below. After getting rid of unwanted extensions, check your browser settings and make sure that they’re as you like them.

You might also want to review your other extensions and programs. Check them manually and with the help of antivirus tools like Spyhunter for Windows, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others. They can detect and warn you about malicious, suspicious, potentially unwanted apps and programs.

Automatic Malware removal tools

TopHow To remove Mediatab.club Hijacker 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 Mediatab.club Hijacker, 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 Mediatab.club Hijacker 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 Mediatab.club, 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 Mediatab.club Hijacker 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 Mediatab.club Hijacker 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 Mediatab.club Hijacker, 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.