YaTab.net hijacker - How to remove

Cunningly, before adding the YaTab.net to your Chrome it mentions about the future modifications briefly (as well as in their Privacy Policy), like changing your data on websites, reading browsing history, replacing sites and altering bookmarks. This ensures that the company will not get in legal trouble for their malicious behaviour but at the same time pushes the responsibility on the user, who agrees with these conditions by the default if one keeps using the Yatab extensions.

Although browser hijackers are not the most harmful viruses, it is still dangerous to allow some unknown Third-party place ads on your screen, potentially delivering more threats, and track your every move online, which can later be misused or sold to someone else. Therefore, in this article, you will find everything you need to know about YaTab.net hijacker, ways it could have infected your computer, possible dangers and tools which should help you removing this unwanted plugin.

What is YaTab.net virus

As we mentioned in the introduction, YaTab.net is a browser hijacker type of malware, meaning that it affects only your search provider and not the whole computer, thankfully. Yet, that does not mean that it shouldn’t be treated as a danger. Firstly, YaTab hijacker installs into Chrome as a plugin, which seems to make your browsing efficient and nice, because of the multi-tools in one spot and pleasant-to-the-eye homepage background pictures. But once the extension is set on your engine, it becomes clear that these were not the only modifications YaTab.net had in mind. You can also notice this behaviour is other browser viruses like Search.getmybestyear.com, Search.stosgame.com,  search.kuklorest.com and etc.

When YaTab.net hijacker gets the necessary authorization from your browser, it connects directly to crooks’ servers and downloads additional Malicious scripts which enable the extension to get even more permissions and change your default engine to Bing, track the data you process via the compromised Chrome, gather the information from your browsing history (passwords, logins, credit card data included) and share it with third-parties, typically marketing companies to improve targeted advertising, on top of that post excessive amount of ads too.

Such complete dominance over your default settings, including the homepage, search engine and new tabs, allow YaTab.net virus to earn a decent revenue from PPC/PPV/PPA campaigns, therefore the more people it infects and promotions it places, the more chances it has to benefit from it. Right now, the most infected regions are the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France and Germany. The promotions that you’ll find posted by YaTab.net hijacker on almost every website you enter won’t be just simple redirects to sponsoring online stores or services since they are not regulated by anyone, they can very easily be links to more notorious malware installers, which will be able to compromise your whole computer in seconds.

Risking your online identity, bank account, social media and other platform profiles and system’s well-being is not worthy just for a nice note-taking app and beautiful backgrounds. This is why we recommend getting rid of YaTab.net hijacker as soon as you can, in order to prevent all the negative consequences of the threat.

How does YaTab.net hijacker infect browsers

While YaTab.net hijacker does look like a fun plugin, crooks cannot rely on voluntary installation by the users. Of course, having an official website, that leads to Chrome Web Store and nice design/description does work in favour of spreading the product, however, the main traffic comes from referral links, ad-networks and bundling. According to the Similarweb.com, users who end up on Yatab.net often come from 4ieghiufb.website, 1yweuvrvewe.host, poisdnverk.pw, paosmcwe.pw, qopiwndv.pw pages that work as redirects, as well as infected ads posted by Chameleon.ad, Adcash, AdRight, AdReactor, CPMStar advertising networks all over the internet. Developers pay these domains or companies to distribute YaTab.net link, which allows to gain a large audience and reach out to many more customers (no matter that through Malvertising), eventually increasing their own revenue.

Bundling is another shady proliferation method that YaTab.net hijacker practices. This plugin spreads with other software which could be found on third-party websites that offer shareware/freeware. Unfortunately, you don’t find out about the unwanted applications and hijackers until you are done setting the main program up from that site. The only method that does work in order not to install YaTab.net virus from a questionable source, is running a Setup Wizard in an Advanced mode and deselecting all the boxes of unwanted programs/extensions before going further. This is very important to remember as well as becoming more aware of the websites you get your applications from.

YaTab.net hijacker can be easily uninstalled just like any other plugin you have on Chrome. All you need to do is to access extensions section and click Remove (not just ‘Disable’) button on Yatab’s add-on. If you are not sure how to accomplish it, take a look at our detailed instructions below, which have all steps explained and aligned consecutively so it will be more understandable on how to remove YaTab.net hijacker. After such manual removal or in case it did not work, we suggest running a full system scan with an anti-malware program, e.g. Spyhunter either to ensure that your Chrome and the operating system is clean from YaTab and other potential viruses that could have sneaked in, or help you delete it if you couldn’t yourself. There are plenty of other security tools which can work in this case, just make sure to check if they are not rogue antivirus programs.