Easy Speed Tracker Extension - How to remove

Monitoring your internet speed can be useful for planning downloads and troubleshooting, but it’s important to be careful of the many deceptive speed trackers online. Easy Speed Tracker is an example of a dishonest tracking tool: deceptive distribution, spying on users, modifying their settings unnecessarily.

Easy Speed Tracker is developed by Eightpoint Technologies Ltd, a company already responsible for many so-called browser hijackers: programs (extensions) which modify browser settings beyond what their functions require in order to control what the user does. Get News Fast, search.heasyconverter.co, and Googlesearch.me are not only worthless, but also promoted by dangerous adware sites and malicious advertisements, installed with the help of bundling, and thrive on forcing people to use unwanted search engines and exposed to an excessive amount of ads.

What is Easy Speed Tracker?

Of course, it’s advertised as an online utility that helps you test your internet speed without looking for a website. Strangely, Easy Speed Tracker also boasts of the free web search function, wrongly implying that search is not usually free.

Features:
Quick access to testing your internet speed.

Speed Test:
Access to useful speed test measuring content.

Free and Easy to Use:
Web Search powered by Yahoo! to provide you with a free experience.

In reality, Easy Speed Tracker only exists as an ad-serving platform. It uses its powers as an extension to watch all of your online activity, including what you search for and what you click on. That data is used to help advertisers promote their products to you.

Impact of Easy Speed Tracker

Easy Speed Tracker does seem to have a functioning internet speed tracking tool, but so do other, less intrusive browser extensions.

The Yahoo search is not terrible, but the results are often full of paid content. Ads sometimes take up more than half of the results. Using another search engine is made very inconvenient by the installed extensions (Easy Speed Tracker tries to get you to install a couple of additional browser hijackers).

Your online activity is being tracked (by more companies than before) and shared with advertisers (as described in Easy Speed Tracker’s privacy policy).

Being exposed to more ads raises the risk of encountering a few malicious ones. Malvertising campaigns affect even established ad networks. Not to mention how many of the commercial pages encountered thanks to Easy Speed Tracker and Yahoo want to send you push notifications, which, if abused, can be annoying and intrusive enough to negatively affect your productivity and strain your computer hardware.

In exchange for all of that, you get a poor quality product which is likely to be abandoned and the speed tracker to stop working — like what’s already happened to some of the older Eightpoint extensions.

How to remove Easy Speed Tracker

Getting rid of Easy Speed Tracker is simple, just follow the instructions for your browser in the guide below this article. Check your list of installed extensions and remove all the ones that were bundled with Easy Speed Tracker, as they’re all the same type of hijacker.

But there’s one more thing: we need to examine the way that Easy Speed Tracker is distributed. It seems that currently the webpage that lets you install the Easy Speed Tracker extension is mostly promoted by redirecting people to it from other sites. It’s very, very rare for anyone to find Easy Speed Tracker on their own. Being forwarded and redirected to unasked for sites is generally either a result of some shady ads or adware.

Adware — programs which primarily show ads — can cause symptoms like new tabs and windows being opened in your browser, as well as promoted content being injected into websites as you see them. Some adware viruses are more aggressive than others, but they are all dangerous because of the kinds of ads that they show. If you suspect that Easy Speed Tracker was recommended to you by adware, and especially if you don’t remember installing Easy Speed Tracker at all, it’s important to find and remove whatever unwanted program is causing you trouble. Check your list of programs manually, or use an antivirus program like Spyhunter to find and remove the virus.

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How to remove Easy Speed Tracker Toolbar using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Easy Speed Tracker Extension 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 Speed Tracker Toolbar . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Easy Speed Tracker Extension 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 Speed Tracker Toolbar from macOS

Delete Easy Speed Tracker Extension from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Easy Speed Tracker Toolbar 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 Speed Tracker Extension 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 Speed Tracker Extension, 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 Speed Tracker Extension 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 Speed Tracker Extension 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 Speed Tracker Toolbar, 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 Speed Tracker Extension 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 Speed Tracker Extension, 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 Speed Tracker Extension 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 Speed Tracker Toolbar 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 Speed Tracker Extension, 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.