Playgamenowtab1.com - How to remove

Playgamenowtab1.com is a webpage that takes over the start page in the browser once you install a certain browser extension. Playgamenowtab1.com is advertised as giving you access to free games but it’s much more about giving Playgamenowtab1.com’s creators access to people’s browsers and filling them with ads. It looks like advertising and data logging are Playgamenowtab1.com’s priorities and the gaming features are an afterthought. It’s better to remove Playgamenowtab1.com and find safer and more convenient ways to play games in your browser.

Playgamenowtab1.com in short:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Removing Playgamenowtab1.com	Uninstall Play Game Now and other suspicious browser extensions, find and remove malware on your system with anti-malware programs like Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and others.
Problems with Playgamenowtab1.com	The free game selection is very limited, the game search is very inconvenient, the new tab is needlessly hijacked, many advertising links on the new tab, usage data is tracked.
How hijackers spread	Advertised online, promoted by adware infections, bundled with free programs.

How to remove Playgamenowtab1.com

Delete malware

If Playgamenowtab1.com took over your browser, you can remove it by uninstalling the browser extension Play Game Now (or similar). Play Game Now was released by Eightpoint Technologies, the same company that made Gamers Corner, Game Finder Pro, Easy Gaming App, and others. Like them, Play Game Now it replaces the browser’s new tab page with Playgamenowtab1.com, which has too many ads and not enough customization.

Because Play Game Now is a browser extension, it needs to be removed from browser settings as described at the bottom of this post. You can also remove extensions by right-clicking their icons in the browser user interface and selecting the “Remove” option in the menu.

You can also use anti-malware apps, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, to check your computer for potentially unwanted programs.

Stop pop-up ads

Removing Play Game Now doesn’t get rid of the notifications that Playgamenowtab1.com and Onlinegameswizard.com deliver.

• To stop the pop-ups, go to your notification settings:
  • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
  • Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
  • Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
  • Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
• Scroll until you see a list of “Allowed” sites.
• Press the button next to those sites that are sending you unwanted notifications. Click “Block” in the menu that pops up.

How Playgamenowtab1.com works

Games on Playgamenowtab1.com

Playgamenowtab1.com is supposed to help users find and play games. It’s advertised on Onlinegameswizard.com as giving you access to FREE games. Unsurprisingly, it’s not effective at that.

Indeed, there is a selection of browser games that can be played without leaving Playgamenowtab1.com. These games aren’t delivered by Playgamenowtab1.com and aren’t exclusive to it but it can’t be argued that they’re there. It’s just that the selection is very limited.

In addition, Playgamenowtab1.com has a searchable list of around 500 games categorized by genre. The categories seem to be nonsense. For example, Slither.io, Candy Crush, and The Last of Us are all considered to be Strategy, which is very inaccurate and entirely unhelpful. And, of course, Playgamenowtab1.com doesn’t let you filter games by platform, so if you don’t have a Playstation or an Android device, you’ll still be offered games exclusive to those platforms, which is just a waste of time. Also, most of the games on this list are not free.

User interface and adware

I have some issues with the user interface of Playgamenowtab1.com. All those games that it recommends – they could fit in the extension pop-up, the window that pops up when you click the extension icon. But Playgamenowtab1.com doesn’t do that. Instead, it replaces the start page. And Playgamenowtab1.com uses this position to do some stuff unrelated to games:

• It has a search box in the middle that leads to Yahoo. The results show more ads than you would normally see.
• Playgamenowtab1.com prominently features links to Totalvideos.tv, Myemailcentral.com, and other clickbait sites – sites that have truly excessive amounts of ads. Fun fact – these sites are controlled by the same company that released Playgamenowtab1.com.
• The privacy policy of Playgamenowtab1.com reveals that your technical information and search queries are logged. And then they”re used to help advertisers and publishers offer you relevant advertising.
• Playgamenowtab1.com recommends other browser hijackers through a link on the page and through notifications. Notifications are pop-up ads in the corner of the browser.

Web browsers nowadays are minimalist, lightweight, and quite customizable. Playgamenowtab1.com throws that away and turns your browser into an advertising platform. It could have delivered the gaming content in a way that respects your choices and your privacy – but it does not. Because then it would be difficult for Playgamenowtab1.com’s creator, Eightpoint Technologies, to make money from it.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Playgamenowtab1.com 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 Playgamenowtab1.com, 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 Playgamenowtab1.com 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 Playgamenowtab1.com, 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 Playgamenowtab1.com 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 Playgamenowtab1.com 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 Playgamenowtab1.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.