Is it safe to keep Television Ace Toolbar in your browser?
Television Ace Toolbar is an addition to web browsers that can be added from its official web page. Although you can add this extension to Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Chrome, none of these browsers present this extension in their official browser extensions’ stores. This is quite suspicious, besides, some users complain that this extension has appeared in their browsers without downloading them, which is even more suspicious. Therefore, we have decided to analyze this piece of software and share details about it with you.
Television Ace Toolbar is a piece of software that can be described as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). Many spyware and malware removal programs identify it as PUP and recommend users to remove it from the system. It is similar to other programs from the same developer, including 100sOfRecipes Toolbar and PackageTracer Toolbar. Once installed, the extension reforms homepage and new tab page settings and adjusts them so that the user would be redirected to a customized version of int.search.myway.com search engine everytime he opens the web browser or a new tab. We have tested this search engine with a keyword “dating.” First of all, we have noticed that it delivers search results based on country we are living in, which means that this program tracks geolocation of our computers. The second thing that we have noticed was the amount of results marked as “ads.” There were loads of them. Besides, next to these advertisements, we have found a list of suggested and related searches. Sadly, organic web results were placed at the very end of the results page, which disappointed us. Then we have decided to check this program’s Privacy Policy, which usually holds important information. This is what we found:
The extension that this PUP adds to the browser collects certain data when the user browses the web. This is what it collects: “information may include your IP address, your browser type and language and other browser-related information, the keyword query, a time-stamp, search query text, search results clicked, search history, pages viewed, the content of any of our undeleted cookies, including a unique identifier, software installed upon and/or devices connected to your PC and/or device, and the referring website address.” Besides, this company shares information it collects with advertisers and ad networks, authorized service providers, business partners, IAC businesses, and the like. According to the developers, “we or these third parties may use the collected data to provide ads of interest to you.” However, the developer also claims that it is not liable for direct and indirect damages that might arise from using its program. We think that you should think twice before searching the web via this tool, and if you wish to remove Television Ace Toolbar, do it without a doubt using instructions provided below. 
How do developers of this program promote it?
Some users say that they have detected this toolbar in their browsers although they have never downloaded or installed it by themselves. In such case, we assume that it could be installed along freeware. Some free programs advertise their partners’ products and offer them to computer users via their installation process. Sadly, suggestions are obfuscated behind Default or Standard options, which are not as frank as Custom/Advanced ones. Therefore, we suggest you choose Default or Standard option when installing software and deselect checkmarks next to tenders to install “recommended” software alongside your download. Besides, just like we have mentioned before, this toolbar can be downloaded from televisionace(dot)com.
Recently, the developer of this program contacted us asking us to remove this post from 2-spyware.com website. We believe that we shouldn’t do that as long as programs that we offer for the removal of Television Ace Toolbar can detect it and help users to remove it from the system. As it is mentioned under each of download buttons, we ARE affiliated with these anti-malware programs, and while some of them are free, others can remove a virus only after purchasing them. These mentions fully fulfill each of the requirements of FTC.
Nevertheless, we have recently decided to make a revision of this and other posts that are related to this developer. We claim that all of them are described properly.
How to remove Television Ace Toolbar?
It is easy to remove Television Ace Toolbar. You only need to find TelevisionAce extension in each affected web browser and uninstall it. To ease this task for you, we have prepared detailed Television Ace Toolbar removal instructions. Scroll down to learn how to remove this system tool from the system.
Uninstall from Windows
Uninstall from Windows 10/8:
- Type Control Panel into the Windows search box and open the result.
- Under Programs, select Uninstall a program.

Uninstall from Windows 7/XP:
- Click on Windows Start > Control Panel (Windows XP users should click on Add/Remove Programs).
- In Control Panel, select Programs > Uninstall a program.

Remove the unwanted program:
- In the Programs and Features window, look for any recently installed suspicious entries, select them, and click Uninstall.
- If User Account Control appears, click Yes to confirm, then complete the removal.

Delete from macOS
Remove the unwanted application:
- From the menu bar, select Go > Applications.
- In the Applications folder, look for any suspicious entries, then drag them to Trash (or right-click and pick Move to Trash).

Delete leftover files and folders:
- Select Go > Go to Folder.
- Enter /Library/Application Support and remove any suspicious folders related to the unwanted program.
- Repeat the same check in the /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons folders, deleting any suspicious entries.

- Finally, empty the Trash to permanently remove the leftovers.
Reset Internet Explorer
Remove dangerous add-ons:
- Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top-right corner of the browser
- Pick Manage Add-ons.
- You will see a Manage Add-ons window. Here, look for suspicious plugins. Click on these entries and select Disable.

Change your homepage if it was altered:
- Open IE and click on the Gear icon.
- Select Internet Options.
- In the General tab, delete the Home page address and replace it by your preferred one (for example, Google.com).
- Click Apply and then select OK.

Delete temporary files:
- Press on the Gear icon and select Internet Options.
- Under Browsing history, click Delete...
- Select relevant fields and press Delete.

Reset Internet Explorer:
- Click on Gear icon > Internet options and select Advanced tab.
- Select Reset.
- In the new window, check Delete personal settings and select Reset.

Remove from Microsoft Edge
Delete unwanted extensions from MS Edge:
- Select Menu (three horizontal dots at the top-right of the browser window) and pick Extensions.
- From the list, pick the extension and click on the Gear icon.
- Click Remove.

Clear cookies and other browser data:
- Click on the Menu (three horizontal dots at the top-right of the browser window) and select Settings > Privacy, search, and services..
- Under Clear browsing data, pick Choose what to clear.
- Select Cookies and other site data and Cached images and files. (apart from passwords, although you might want to include Media licenses as well, if applicable) and click on Clear.

Restore new tab and homepage settings:
- Click the menu icon and choose Settings.
- Then find On startup section.
- Click Remove next to any suspicious startup page.
Reset MS Edge if the above steps did not work:
- Press on Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager.
- Click on More details arrow at the bottom of the window.
- Select Details tab.
- Now scroll down and locate every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right-click on each of them and select End Task to stop MS Edge from running.

Instructions for Chromium-based Edge
Delete extensions from MS Edge (Chromium):
- Open Edge and click select Settings > Extensions.
- Delete unwanted extensions by clicking Remove.

Clear cache and site data:
- Click on Menu and go to Settings.
- Select Privacy, search and services.
- Under Clear browsing data, pick Choose what to clear.
- Under Time range, pick All time.
- Select Clear now.

Reset Chromium-based MS Edge:
- Click on Menu and select Settings.
- On the left side, pick Reset settings.
- Select Restore settings to their default values.
- Confirm with Reset.
- This will disable extensions and reset startup pages but will not delete bookmarks, saved passwords, or browsing history.

Remove from Mozilla Firefox (FF)
Remove dangerous extensions:
- Open Mozilla Firefox browser and click on the Menu (three horizontal lines at the top-right of the window).
- Select Add-ons.
- In here, select the unwanted extension and click Remove.

Reset the homepage:
- Click three horizontal lines at the top right corner to open the menu.
- Choose Settings.
- Under Home, set your preferred homepage and new tab settings.
Clear cookies and site data:
- Click Menu and pick Settings.
- Go to Privacy & Security section.
- Scroll down to locate Cookies and Site Data.
- Click on Clear Data...
- Select Cookies and Site Data and Temporary cached files and pages, then click Clear.

Reset Mozilla Firefox
If clearing the browser as explained above did not help, reset Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Mozilla Firefox browser and click the Menu.
- Go to Help and then choose Troubleshooting Information.

- Under Give Firefox a tune up section, click on Refresh Firefox...
- Once the pop-up shows up, confirm the action by pressing on Refresh Firefox.

Remove from Google Chrome
Delete malicious extensions from Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome, click on the Menu (three vertical dots at the top-right corner) and select More tools > Extensions.
- In the newly opened window, you will see all the installed extensions. Uninstall all suspicious extensions related to the unwanted program by clicking Remove.

Clear cache and web data from Chrome:
- Click on Menu and pick Settings.
- Under Privacy and security, select Clear browsing data.
- Select Browsing history, Cookies and other site data, as well as Cached images and files.
- Click Clear data.

Change your homepage:
- Click menu and choose Settings.
- Look for a suspicious site in the On startup section.
- Click on Open a specific or set of pages and click on three dots to find the Remove option.
Reset Google Chrome:
If the previous methods did not help you, reset Google Chrome to eliminate all the unwanted components:
- Click on Menu and select Settings.
- In the Settings, scroll down and click Advanced.
- Scroll down and locate Reset and clean up section.
- Now click Restore settings to their original defaults.
- Confirm with Reset settings.

Delete from Safari
Remove dangerous extensions:
- Open Safari, click Safari in the menu at the top-left of the screen, and select Preferences.
- Go to the Extensions tab, look for any suspicious entries, and click Uninstall to remove them.

Clear history and website data:
- Click Safari in the menu and pick Clear History.
- Set Clear to all history and confirm with Clear History.

Reset Safari:
- Click Safari in the menu and select Preferences > Advanced.
- Enable Show Develop menu in menu bar.
- From the menu bar, click Develop and select Empty Caches.

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