Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects - How to remove

Earth and Satellite Maps is a map-themed browser extension for the most popular browsers. It promises to help users find directions, check traffic, and access maps from your new tab page.

“Search and access popular maps quick links instantly form your new tab page!”

The extension’s map functionality is not impressive at all, but Earth and Satellite Maps is very good at delivering ads to users.

What Earth and Satellite Maps does

An extension that changes your home page and new tab page to Search.hearthandsatellitemaps.com (something that you can do without any extensions). A search bar for addresses is there for you to quickly find directions. With Earth and Satellite Maps it’s only one click away from your home page — as opposed to two clicks that you need on the same browser without the extension.

Earth and Satellite Maps home page lacks a lot of features that a normal online map would have. But it does have links to sponsored and sponsor sites. This lack of useful features is not surprising when you realise that Earth and Satellite Maps is adware — software that only wants to be installed so that it can show you advertisements.

How it affects browsing

Adware like Earth and Satellite Maps offers very little that’s useful, but do a lot in terms of advertising to you, collecting my information, promoting various products. It hijacks the browser and spies on you just to show more targeted ads.

Earth and Satellite Maps is made by Eightpoint Technologies Ltd., a sister company to Polarity Technologies Ltd. Polarity has developed a huge number of clone extensions that all do the same thing: change your home page and search engine.

The new search engine allows search results to be filled with ads, making it annoying to find the actual results. Sometimes I got 8 ads for 7 results. Yes, other search engines also advertise in result, but they aren’t so bad as to have more commercials than content. So searching with Earth and Satellite Maps installed either requires me to sift through ads to find results, or to go through additional steps to go to the search engine that I want. This negatively affects my browsing experience, my productivity, and my mood.

The abundance of ads on websites that Earth and Satellite Maps directs me to also slows down the computer and strains the CPU. Another problem is malicious ads. There is always a chance to encounter some, but having adware installed definitely raises the odds. Scams and Ponzi schemes, phishing sites, infected websites that download viruses might be directed to by some ads, and ad-networks can’t always catch them all.

Marketing really benefits from knowing more about their target. So Earth and Satellite Maps and the related websites collect and record data like your device, your operating system, your IP, search queries (this one is terrible for privacy!), and your location. Earth and Satellite Maps uses this information to, among other things, “help advertisers and publishers connect with you to offer relevant advertising in their apps and websites”.

How browser hijackers are distributed

Earth and Satellite Maps can be found and installed organically, by looking for something relevant online. With browser hijackers and adware, you are essentially tricked into installing what you believe is a good product, but is actually a platform for marketing to you. So, a lot of browser hijackers and adware promote themselves as practical tools, such as document converters, hardware optimisers, or privacy protectors. Then people install them and find how poor the functionality of the tool actually is.

Bundling is another way that unwanted software spreads. For example, Earth and Satellite Maps uses budling to promote Search Encrypt — another browser hijacker that sometimes promotes unwanted software. Software bundling often results in people accidentally and unknowingly installing programs. This is unethical, especially because a lot of inexperienced computer users might have difficulty recognising malware and knowing how to remove it. Some people whose browsing experience is compromised by a browser hijacker might just deal with it because they don’t know that redirects, popup ads, and search results filled with ads are not the norm.

How to get rid of Earth and Satellite Maps

You can remove the Earth and Satellite Maps extension, but you will also probably need to edit your browser settings to stop notifications from bothering you. The way to manually remove the extension can be found below.

Since Earth and Satellite Maps is not a virus, you can continue using it if you wish. But, in case you accidentally downloaded something (this can happen very easily), there could some sort of malware or potentially unwanted software installed on your computer that won’t go away even after you fix your browser. Try using an antivirus program that you trust, for example, Spyhunter, to examine your programs and files, and remove threats if any are found.

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How to remove Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects from macOS

Delete Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects, 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects, 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects, 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects 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 Earth and Satellite Maps Redirects, 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.