Watch TV Online Tab - How to remove

Watch TV Online Tab, or hwatch-tvonline.com, changes your new tab page in your browser to hwatch-tvonline.com and reads your browsing history. It’s installed by people who are looking for ways to watch television on their computer. That doesn’t work, as Watch TV Online Tab does nothing more than hijack your new tab page and try to get you to use their affiliate search engine.

Watch TV Online Tab short description:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
How Watch TV Online Tab is installed	Advertised on streaming sites, installed by free programs, installed from watch-television.com.
Problems and issues	Hijacks browser new tab page and replaces it with hwatch-tvonline.com, does not help you watch television online, reads your browsing history and may hijack your web search.
How to remove Watch TV Online Tab	Delete malware from your computer (SpyHunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for Mac OS), uninstall unwanted browser extensions.

How Watch TV Online Tab gets installed

Watch TV Online Tab has a lot of negative reviews by disgruntled users. People install Watch TV Online Tab under the impression that it will help them watch television on their computer. A lot of users discover Watch TV Online Tab after looking for a way to watch their favorite television show or, more likely, a sporting stream.

There are sites online that do this for free, including some illegal sites. The illegal ones often have malicious advertisements that redirect visitors to promoted websites automatically. Some of these advertised websites offer you a way to “Watch Free TV Online, Watch Free on your Computer”. You may be offered to “Continue for Full Access” and then lead to install Watch TV Online Tab.

Of course, Watch TV Online Tab has nothing to offer in those terms, apart from putting a few links to sites like Youtube and ESPN on hwatch-tvonline.com. Needless to say, you probably already know how to go to those sites yourself. It would be best to uninstall Watch TV Online Tab right away because it just doesn’t do anything useful.

Some signs that Watch TV Online Tab is to be avoided include:

• hwatch-tvonline.com’s permissions (to read your browsing history),
• bad reviews (they’re pretty scathing),
• Watch TV Online Tab’s developer Eightpoint (the company has made other browser hijackers, including TV Now, Search.hwatchtvnow.co, Get TV Easy, Search.heasytowatchtvnow.com, and others).

Watch TV Online Tab is bad for privacy

Not only is Watch TV Online Tab useless, it’s also potentially a bit dangerous. For one, it can read your browsing history. This is done for the sake of advertisers who would like to know what you like and your demographic info to advertise more effectively. There are lots of browser extensions that spy on your browsing history.

If you check Watch TV Online Tab’s privacy policy, you will find that this extension can reveal a lot of your information:

• your IP address and location,
• your device hardware, operating system, and the browser,
• your other installed extensions,
• your internet service provider.

According to this policy, third-party advertisers may also collect data about you through Watch TV Online Tab, including your search queries.

Another problem with Watch TV Online Tab is that it may get installed together with Hide My Searches and Email Search Tools – other browser hijackers. Hwatch-tvonline.com takes over your browser’s new tab page, while Hide My Searches replaces your default search engine with hidemysearches.com. Thoroughly hijacked, your browser may force you to use either Hidemysearches.com or Yahoo.com to search the web.

How to remove Watch TV Online Tab

You can avoid Watch TV Online Tab and similar browser hijackers by being careful online. For example, you may want to use an ad-blocker or an antivirus program to block malicious websites.

Watch TV Online Tab and all the other hijackers can be uninstalled manually or with an anti-malware program (like SpyHunter for PC or Combo Cleaner for Mac). Manual removal instructions are in the following section. As far as I know, there shouldn’t be any difficulties removing Watch TV Online Tab. But if you think there’s some suspicious software on your computer, like freeware that was downloaded together with Watch TV Online Tab, you can use an anti-malware scanner to uncover it and remove it.

Automatic Malware removal tools

How to remove Watch TV Online Tab using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Watch TV 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 Watch TV Online Tab . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Watch TV 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 Watch TV Online Tab from macOS

Delete Watch TV Online Tab from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Watch TV Online Tab 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 Watch TV 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 Watch TV Online Tab, 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 Watch TV 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 Watch TV Online Tab. Click on the trash bin icon next to Watch TV 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 Watch TV Online 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.

TopRemoving Watch TV 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 Watch TV Online Tab 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 Watch TV 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 Watch TV 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 Watch TV Online Tab. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Watch TV 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 Watch TV Online Tab from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Watch TV 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 Watch TV Online Tab, 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.