Do you know what MyWayNotes Toolbar is?
MyWayNotes Toolbar is an application that is meant to help you take notes easier. Although it might appear to be legitimate and useful, it is not as innocent as it might appear to be at first. Our research team classifies it as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). It always comes bundled with a tremendously suspicious search tool, and trusting it is not a good idea. Furthermore, the application itself is not that great, and some might say that its alleged benefits are blown out of proportion. Yes, it allows you to make lists and notes directly on your browser, but do you really consider it to be an amazing tool? Probably, you do not. Whether you want to remove MyWayNotes Toolbar because you do not find it useful, or you are worried about your virtual security, we can help you. Continue reading, and you will be able to delete this strange application in no time.
Google Chrome users can download the suspicious MyWayNotes Toolbar from the Chrome web store at chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mywaynotes/ckhdcflhhdlkfdgjeapoiihmdhmkjmkg? Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer users can acquire this PUP from mywaynotes.com/index.jhtml. This is how most toolbars created by Mindspark Interactive Network are introduced to users. Other toolbars include WeatherBlink Toolbar, FreePDFCombiner Toolbar, and ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar. They all come bundled with the MyWay search tool that is either represented via the interface of the toolbar (MyWayNotes Toolbar is represented via New Tab and homepage) or the default search provider. How the search tool works depends on the web browser you install the toolbar onto. For example, the toolbar takes over the homepage on Mozilla Firefox. This is why some users rush to remove this PUP thinking it is a browser hijacker. All in all, it does not matter which web browser you use. We advise deleting the PUP from all of them.
MyWay Search is a suspicious search engine because if you enter keywords into the search field, it redirects to search.myway.com, where results are taken from Google (hence the “Enhanced by Google” tag). However, the bigger part of the search results are taken over by ads, and there is a good probability that the creator of the PUP is earning money for the clicks that users make when they interact with these ads. This is not the biggest issue; although you might want to delete MyWayNotes Toolbar if you consider the search tool useless. What is most disconcerting is that the links shown to you could be unreliable, and you could get in trouble by interacting with them. Unfortunately, some users might ignore this just because the application allows creating notes and lists, and it also provides easy-access links to such popular sites as gmail.com, yahoo.com, facebook.com, youtube.com, amazon.com, or booking.com.
MyWayNotes Toolbar screenshot
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Do you trust MyWayNotes Toolbar? Do you enjoy the services provided by this PUP? Did you install it on its own, or were other questionable programs installed along with it? These are very important questions you need to ask yourself. Whether or not you decide you want to remove MyWayNotes Toolbar, we recommend scanning the operating system immediately to make sure that malicious threats do not exist. If they do, you might decide to install an anti-malware program so that all threats and PUPs would be deleted automatically. If you decide to eliminate unwanted programs manually, you can follow the instructions available right below.
Remove MyWayNotes Toolbar
Google Chrome
- Open the browser and tap keys Alt+F on the keyboard.
- In the menu on the right select More tools and then Extensions.
- Move over to the unwanted extension and click Remove.
Mozilla Firefox
- Open the browser and tap keys Ctrl+Shift+A on the keyboard.
- In the Add-ons Manager menu move to extensions.
- Identify the unwanted extension and click the Remove button.
Internet Explorer
- Launch RUN by tapping Win+R keys on the keyboard.
- Enter Control Panel into the dialog box and then go to Uninstall a program.
- Identify the app representing the PUP, right-click it, and choose Uninstall.
In non-techie terms:
It is your decision whether or not you want to delete MyWayNotes Toolbar from your operating system, but that is something our research team strongly recommends doing. That is because although the toolbar allows you to create notes and lists, and the links it promotes on the home page are legitimate, the search tool linked to the PUP is highly questionable. Although it takes search results from Google, it shows mostly ads, and we probably do not need to explain why interacting with them could be dangerous. If other threats or PUPs exist, we advise employing an anti-malware program to remove MyWayNotes Toolbar and the rest of the detected threats. Otherwise, you can eliminate it manually using the instructions you can find above.