Trackyourpackagetab1.com - How to remove

Did Trackyourpackagetab1.com appear on your screen? It’s supposed to help people track packages, but it barely does anything for that. It’s just an adware browser hijacker with a package tracking pop-up tacked on. It’s best to remove it and use reputable shipment tracking services directly.

In short about Trackyourpackagetab1.com:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How to uninstall Trackyourpackagetab1.com	Remove Track Your Package Now and other browser hijackers, block unwanted notifications, scan your computer (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others) for remaining PUPs.
Problems with Trackyourpackagetab1.com	Changes your browser settings with no justification, tracks your browsing habits.
How adware gets installed	Offered by fake shipment tracking sites, bundled with other browser extensions or programs.

How to remove Trackyourpackagetab1.com

Track Your Package Now is a browser extension – a little program that gets attached to a web browser and changes or adds to its features. This one pretends to help you track packages, but it’s really there to show you ads. It’s not even affiliated with any shipment companies.

Removing Trackyourpackagetab1.com and other useless browser hijackers will free your new tab and search engine so that you can manage them yourself.

There are a few steps to getting rid of the Trackyourpackagetab1.com hijacker:

• remove all suspicious browser extensions,
• block notifications from sites that abuse them,
• check your computer for malware and junkware.

Remove all bad extensions

Trackyourpackagetab1.com replaces your new tab page (and possibly your home page) in your browser when the Track Your Package Now extension is installed. This is the extension that needs to be removed, then. Just click the Remove button in the extension’s context menu or in the page in Settings -> Extensions. I also put detailed instructions with screenshots below, in the last section. At the same time, you should check all the other extensions that are installed by reviewing their details. Be skeptical of extensions that:

• read and change your data on all the sites that you visit, or on popular search engines like Google.com and Bing.com,
• replace your new tab page,
• change your search settings.

Malicious browser extensions tend to use at least one of those permissions. Of course, safe extensions use them too, but they have good justifications. Malicious extensions don’t.

Block notifications

To stop unwanted pop-ups, read out post on blocking web push notifications. Trackyourpackagetab1.com does ask you to allow its notifications, as do the clickbait sites that it promotes. For me, Trackyourpackagetab1.com started by promoting TotalAV.

Remove any remaining malware

Finally, scan your computer with antivirus software, like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others, to catch any remaining potentially unwanted programs and junkware. This is important because malicious apps tend to spread in groups.

How Trackyourpackagetab1.com works

Unhelpful extension

Trackyourpackagetab1.com comes with the Track Your Package Now extension. Browser extensions are supposed to add useful features to the browser and Track Your Package Now’s main feature is helping people access package tracking services. Basically, it’s meant to let you type in the tracking number of your shipment and show you its location and other info.

Really, though, Trackyourpackagetab1.com is a new tab template with a package tracking pop-up tacked on. The template includes a search box that leads to Yahoo.com and a few links to ad-filled websites that belong to Track Your Package Now’s creators. The package tracking bit is a little pop-up at the top. This is also how Free Test Now, Easy Template Finder, and other hijackers work.

There are other ways to track packages without installing a browser extension and compromising your privacy. Many sites exist that work well. They just ask you to type in your tracking number and spit out the information. They don’t ask you to install anything.

Dishonest installation

One of the ways that Trackyourpackagetab1.com is promoted is through fake package tracking sites that tell you to type in your tracking number, but instead of showing relevant information, tell you that you must install Track Your Package Now. This is not how things are supposed to work. When a site does this to you, just close the tab.

Fake package tracking sites tend to be promoted by alternative search engines like Historyhide.com. It could be that your browser had already been affected by a malicious extension when you found Trackyourpackagetab1.com.

Alternatively, Track Your Package Now could have been included with the installer of a program that you downloaded. Do you remember if you installed a program at or around the time that Trackyourpackagetab1.com showed up? If so, maybe Track Your Package Now was included in that installer after its developers paid someone to do that.

People don’t flock to Trackyourpackagetab1.com by themselves. Track Your Package Now barely even has any ratings or reviews on the Chrome store (3 ratings for 100,000+ users). One of the few ways this disparity makes sense is if many of Track Your Package Now’s users didn’t mean to install this extension and don’t even know that it’s installed. This is what happens when dishonest installation tactics are used.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove extensions and restore settings in your browser

TopHow To remove Trackyourpackagetab1.com 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 Trackyourpackagetab1.com, 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 Trackyourpackagetab1.com 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 Trackyourpackagetab1.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 Trackyourpackagetab1.com 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 Trackyourpackagetab1.com 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 Trackyourpackagetab1.com, 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.