What is Search My Tabs?

Search My Tabs is an annoying adware gettings into your PC in the form of an extension to the browser Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Search My Tabs hijacks your browser and displays advertising banners, displays false coupons and promotional links to sites that cooperate with the developers of the program. Search My Tabs is a potentially unwanted program, it is not a virus, so antivirus software can not detect it. Search My Tabs may collect your personal information and pass it on to third parties. This reduces the speed of your browsing and constantly interfere with the user. Banners and coupons appearing on the screen show promotional offers of popular web stores. Search My Tabs not do anything useful, so you should remove it right away.

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How Search My Tabs gets on your PC?

Malicious software penetrates to computer bundled with free programs. Search My Tabs comes on a computer without the consent of the user and can cause irreparable damage to your computer. Most often, the user can prevent the penetration of such programs on their own. For this, it is necessary to follow closely the installation process and not to rush. Read the user agreement, do not agree to install suspicious software. Choose advanced or full installation type. Read reviews about the programs. You can also use special programs that will help you protect your PC. If you have found Search My Tabs, use our instructions to remove it.

How to remove Search My Tabs from your computer?

To uninstall Search My Tabs remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Search My Tabs in their database. You can try to use them for removing Search My Tabs.

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You can try both of these products to remove Search My Tabs

Or uninstall Search My Tabs manually.

Step 1: Remove Search My Tabs from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Search My Tabs.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Search My Tabs and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Search My Tabs, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

  1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
  2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
  3. On the right side, locate Search My Tabs and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
  4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Search My Tabs from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Search My Tabs from browsers

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Search My Tabs.
  6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
  3. Choose Search My Tabs.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Push Alt + T.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Search My Tabs.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Search My Tabs:

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Written by Rami Douafi

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