yourmailtab.com Hijacker - How to remove

Your Mail Tab is a browser extension that acts as a search hijacker and can be installed from yourmailtab.com. Your Mail Tab offers you a way to “Easily access popular email account web links and search directly from your new tab”. The extent of its email functionality is actually just putting a few links to the most popular email services on a banner in your new tab. “Your Mail Tab” also bundles another search hijacker with it — dishonest behaviour that only puts this extension closer to malware.

People looking for a way to log in to their email account sometimes find their way to yourmailtab.com, see what the site promises, and install the Your Mail Tab extension. And it is true that Your Mail Tab is not a virus and you can continue using it without your computer being in danger. But before you do that, you should be aware of Your Mail Tab’s business model and maybe consider looking for a more ethical and honest alternative.

What is suspicious about yourmailtab.com?

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A lot of adware, scareware, and similar useless software are promoted as utility tools that will improve your productivity or security for free. But, as Andrew Lewis said,

“If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”

And so, the main business of the developers of Your Mail Tab is to redirect your searches in order to profit from the ads shown to you. When you type a query into the search bars provided by yourmailtab.com, the ads shown on the results page are there to generate revenue to the developers of Your Mail Tab.

Too many ads being shown in your search results, especially when the browser extension responsible for the ads is promising a more secure way to browse the internet, is not desirable. It can be frustrating trying to tell what is an ad and what is a genuine result, as Yahoo’s labels for ads are not as clear as, for example, Google’s. Besides that, ads are a constant reminder that you are being tracked.

Loss of privacy

There is nothing wrong with free software showing ads. However, you do lose some privacy. According to yourmailtab.com’s Privacy Policy, your information is collected and shared with third parties. The information which is collected includes:

• Your location,
• The device you are using,
• Your IP address,
• The types of queries you submit to their search engine.

The Your Mail Tab browser extension can also read your browsing history, and it reserves the right to get your information from other companies, too.

Dishonest distribution

The installation process of Your Mail Tab was also suspicious. The user who wants the extension is railroaded into installing SearchSecure, sister extension to Searchsecureprime.co, which is classified as a browser hijacker.

This is known as bundling and is a common distribution method for adware and other potentially unwanted software. If you are a little careless, it is easy to miss the details and accidentally install unwanted addons.

Alternatives to Your Mail Tab

To be honest, Your Mail Tab does not do much for the new tab. But if you want to customise your new tab page, there are guides about how to do this online for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and others. Some browsers are more customisable than others, but in general, there are always ways to make a browser your own. Do not be afraid to dive into the settings; after all, they were created for the users to take control of their web browser.

How to remove Your Mail Tab

Your Mail Tab and bundled extensions, as well as notification permissions, can be removed manually by editing your browser settings. The instructions are below this article. But it would also be good to scan your system with a trusted antivirus program (like Spyhunter) because potentially unwanted applications use some of the same distribution methods that malware uses.

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How to remove yourmailtab.com using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like yourmailtab.com Hijacker 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 yourmailtab.com . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make yourmailtab.com Hijacker 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 yourmailtab.com from macOS

Delete yourmailtab.com Hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the yourmailtab.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.

TopHow To remove yourmailtab.com 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 yourmailtab.com 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 yourmailtab.com 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 yourmailtab.com 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 yourmailtab.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.

How to remove yourmailtab.com 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 yourmailtab.com Hijacker, 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 yourmailtab.com Hijacker from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall yourmailtab.com and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to yourmailtab.com Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on 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.