TV Fans Online Tab - How to remove

TV Fans Online Tab, or Htvfansonline.com, is a browser add-on that changes your homepage to htvfansonline.com. It’s supposed to help you watch television streams on your computer, but it’s not great at it. At the same time, TV Fans Online Tab is disliked by a few antivirus programs VirusTotal because it acts as a browser hijacker. And with TV Fans Online Tab, more hijackers may get installed, such as Hidemysearches.com.

TV Fans Online Tab is a browser hijacker and you should probably uninstall it.

Symptoms	Htvfansonline.com or a site like it is your new home and new tab page, searching the web returns your results in Yahoo.com or Hidemysearches.com.
Problems with TV Fans Online Tab	Reads your browsing history, takes over your new tab page, tricks you to install other, stronger hijackers.
How it gets installed	By a free program, thanks to dishonest ads, manually after finding it.
How to remove TV Fans Online Tab	Uninstall TV Fans Online Tab and other suspicious extensions, remove malware with antivirus programs (Combo Cleaner for Mac, SpyHunter for PC, and others).

How to remove TV Fans Online Tab

TV Fans Online Tab changes your browser settings to advertise more effectively, but it fails to help you stream television. It basically tells you to go to other sites and buy a subscription there. What even is the use of TV Fans Online Tab, then?

If you happen to like Htvfansonline.com and don’t care about it reading your browsing history, that’s fine. It’s not like TV Fans Online Tab is some great malware. But if you have any problems with it, go ahead and uninstall it. There are much better ways to access online streaming.

More importantly, there are likely extensions besides TV Fans Online Tab that you should remove from your browser. Find and disable or remove all the suspicious ones. The process is the normal one for uninstalling extensions. It’s possible that you need to disable syncing or even look up how to remove an extension controlled by your enterprise, but most likely, it’ll be enough to just go to your browser settings and remove TV Fans Online Tab and its related add-ons. More detailed instructions can be found at the bottom of this article.

If you think that TV Fans Online Tab was downloaded and installed by some program, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool, for example, Combo Cleaner for Mac OS or SpyHunter. A scanner can help you find suspicious programs.

How does TV Fans Online Tab get installed

There are a few possibilities for how TV Fans Online Tab may have appeared on your computer:

• it was bundled with some program that you recently installed,
• misleading ads got you to agree to install TV Fans Online Tab,
• you found it yourself and got the impression that it will stream television in your browser.

If you didn’t install TV Fans Online Tab on your own, it may have come to your computer packaged with another program – some freeware. TV Fans Online Tab could have been one optional offer that gets installed if you don’t refuse it manually. You may have just missed the warning.

There’s also the possibility that a bad ad online told you that you needed to install TV Fans Online Tab to watch some video or something. Mostly, illegal streaming sites show these malicious ads. Such ads are meant to trick you to download and install stuff adware and scareware and make some money to the tricksters who developed these applications. In no way is TV Fans Online Tab ever required for you to stream anything or watch any videos, don’t listen to such ads.

But most likely, you found TV Fans Online Tab when you were looking for ways to watch television, sports, and movies on your computer. You might have come across sites like Tvfansonline.com which advertise the TV Fans Online Tab extension. Even though Htvfansonline.com doesn’t show streams, you wouldn’t find out until you’d have installed it.

Is TV Fans Online Tab dangerous?

Htvfansonline.com takes over the user’s browser and appears every time they open a new tab page. It’s supposed to contain all of TV Fans Online Tab’s functionality but all it has are a few links to a few websites that do online streaming: ESPN, HBO, CBS, and others.

TV Fans Online Tab is kind of suspicious. It’s associated with sites like Info.com and Searchdiension.com, which are a little malicious and quite dishonest. And it doesn’t help that Htvfansonline.com’s developer has a reputation.

Eightpoint/Polarity made TV Fans Online Tab and a few other online streaming extensions: Online TV Streamer, Watch TV Online Tab, and TV Now. It seems like TV Fans Online Tab is less bad than the other extensions because its marketing and its description are more honest. But it’s undeniable that it behaves like a browser hijacker. For example, it strings users to install Hidemysearches.com, Email Search Tools, or other extensions which are worse than TV Fans Online Tab. They take over the search engine and they don’t even let you use other search sites, sometimes. Very annoying.

At the same time, TV Fans Online Tab doesn’t pose any imminent danger and you don’t need to worry about it stealing your passwords or doing anything concerning like that.

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Manually remove TV Fans Online Tab

How to remove Htvfansonline.com using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like TV Fans Online Tab install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Htvfansonline.com . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make TV Fans Online Tab easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Htvfansonline.com from macOS

Delete TV Fans Online Tab from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Htvfansonline.com app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to TV Fans Online Tab and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

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

TopRemoving TV Fans Online 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 Htvfansonline.com. Click on the trash bin icon next to TV Fans Online 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 Htvfansonline.com, 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.

TopRemoving TV Fans Online Tab from Firefox

• 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 Htvfansonline.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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to TV Fans Online Tab, 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

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

How to remove TV Fans Online 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 Htvfansonline.com. Click on the "Remove" icon next to TV Fans Online 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.

TopRemoving Htvfansonline.com from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the TV Fans Online Tab. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Click on the Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari.
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

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