Easy Coupon Access - How to remove

Easy Coupon Access is a browser extension that replaces the home page, the new tab, and the main search engine. Easy Coupon Access is just one of many newtab viruses that exist. They hijack the browser on which they were installing, watching people’s browsing histories and showing them ads.

Easy Coupon Access should be a simple, practical tool to help people find coupons online. At least, that’s what its description says.

Search and access popular coupons quick links instantly from your new tab page!

And search.heasycouponaccess.com, the page set as the new tab, really does have links to some popular coupon websites. But the marketing of Easy Coupon Access fails to warn people about which search engine the extension forwards people to (Yahoo!, an engine notorious for excessive ads in the results page).

Problems with Easy Coupon Access

Replacing the search engine

Eightpoint, the company behind Easy Coupon Access, has a lot of extensions developed (Findgofind.co, Search.hthereadinghub.com, Email Anytime), and one of the things that they have in common is pushing an unwanted search engine.

There are many people online wondering how Yahoo, MyWay, or another engine that they didn’t ask for hijacked their browser. For those who install Easy Coupon Access, it might not be entirely obvious that this extension and the new search engine are connected. But they are, and the main purpose of Easy Coupon Access is to introduce as many people as possible to the promoted search engine.

Privacy

Usually, I would recommend you to skim the privacy policy of whatever product you might want to install, but I’ll have to rethink that; the link to the privacy policy of Easy Coupon Access provided in the Chrome Web Store isn’t just broken (like what happens a lot of browser hijackers) — it leads me to a malware scam page (apple.com-scan-mac.live)! So I will summarize the most relevant points from Eightpoint’s privacy policy.

Easy Coupon Access collects information about its users. Data collected about you include your IP and location, info about the hardware and software that you use, and your search queries. This data is used to help advertisers and publishers connect with you and offer relevant content. There is an excerpt from the privacy policy in this article.

Advertising

This data collected about you is very useful for targeted advertising, which seeks to only show you ads that you might be interested in. The ads then are placed in the search results that you see after using the Using Easy Coupon Access search box.

The Yahoo search engine is known for injecting a large number of ads into the search results (sometimes as many ads as genuine search results), and some people find it very irritating. No wonder — the ads appear on top of the page, and they’re poorly labeled. This wastes people’s time, distracts them from their real task, and lowers the accuracy of the web search.

Some of the pages that Easy Coupon Access links to wish to push notifications. Notifications can be used to cause excessive pop-ups, which are a much worse distraction than ads in search results. Plus, they’re a risk to your cybersecurity. Malvertising is a big problem right now and, the more ads you’re exposed to, the more opportunities malware has to infect your device.

How to remove Easy Coupon Access

If you wish to use your own favorite search engine, you’ll have to remove the Easy Coupon Access extension. Luckily, most browsers allow people to customize their new tab page, so if you have some links that you wish to be quickly accessible, you can just put them on your new tab page yourself.

Easy Coupon Access is not a virus and, if you want to keep using it, feel free. But be aware of the risks and be careful online. However, there is a small concern about how you found the extension. Browser hijackers frequently use adware to promote themselves. If you have an adware infection, it’s important to remove it before it invites a serious virus. You can remove malware automatically, using Spyhunter, or another antivirus program.

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How to remove Easy Coupon Access using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Easy Coupon Access 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 Easy Coupon Access . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Easy Coupon Access 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 Easy Coupon Access from macOS

Delete Easy Coupon Access from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Easy Coupon Access 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 Easy Coupon Access 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 Easy Coupon Access, 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 Easy Coupon Access 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 Easy Coupon Access 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 Easy Coupon Access, 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 Easy Coupon Access 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 Easy Coupon Access, 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 Easy Coupon Access from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Easy Coupon Access 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 Easy Coupon Access, 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.