EasyRecipesSearch - How to remove

EasyRecipesSearch is advertised as letting you find and print recipes, but that’s not all that it does. Besides letting you quickly and easily search for recipes, EasyRecipesSearch replaces your default search engine to leech off you for some ad revenue. Those who install EasyRecipesSearch see internet search queries redirected to Yahoo.com. As for printing recipes, this feature doesn’t seem to be part of EasyRecipesSearch.

EasyRecipesSearch features and problems:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems with EasyRecipesSearch	Hijacks your search engine, extremely basic functionality.
How it gets installed	Advertised on recipe sites, promoted using dishonestly designed ads, installed without the user realizing it.
Removing EasyRecipesSearch	Find and delete malware and potentially unwanted programs (use Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, or another trusted app), uninstall the EasyRecipesSearch extension manually.

EasyRecipesSearch as a browser hijacker

Web browsers can benefit a lot from browser extensions. Extensions can enhance features, add new ones, and customize the browser in a way that makes it more fun to use. But not all extensions can be trusted with access to your browser. Some are created just to manipulate people’s browsers, directing them to associated sites, inflating their traffic, and then benefitting from increased advertising revenue. They’re called browser hijackers.

EasyRecipesSearch provides a quick way to search for recipes, collecting search results from multiple recipe sites. At the same time, it controls your default search engine and sets it to Yahoo (infamous for showing a lot of ads) by default. This, along with the fact that EasyRecipesSearch’s main function is not even related to internet search settings, could be enough to consider it a browser hijacker.

However, EasyRecipesSearch is not as bad as a lot of other web browser extensions. It has settings that let you choose between Yahoo, Google, and Bing as your main search engine, which, though, not perfect, is better than nothing. Also, EasyRecipesSearch’s privacy policy doesn’t have anything too bad. Your IP and data about your browser and operating system is collected and shared with a few service providers, which is not too bad.

EasyRecipesSearch is made by Tightrope Interactive, which is a company that’s already released a few other dubious browser extensions, including Search Private, OfficeX New Tab, MyMapsTab, and others. These extensions do offer their promised features, but at the same time, they mess with people’s search settings to monetize them.

How to avoid browser hijackers

EasyRecipesSearch is advertised on recipe sites as Print Recipe Search, which is not exactly what you get with EasyRecipesSearch and the difference is baffling. Why not just advertise honestly?

If you use a Chrome-based browser, you have to install extensions from the Google Chrome Web Store, which gives you some information about EasyRecipesSearch: number of users, reviews, a link to its privacy policy, and a detailed description. EasyRecipesSearch has over ten thousand users, yet not a single rating or review. That’s suspicious. It might mean that many users don’t know that they have EasyRecipesSearch installed:

• People might get confused by the ad’s unclear interface, where clicking the “Continue” button installs EasyRecipesSearch. “Continue” doesn’t imply that you will now download an extension. It’s deliberately misleading.
• Browser extensions often get bundled with free programs and are installed quietly in the background. Such bundles tend to be distributed on software download sites.
• Some extensions get installed in groups, where one redirects to another and ask you to continue the installation, falsely implying that a single installation process is happening.

In such cases, people may let browser extensions to be installed without realizing it. It’s important to remain vigilant and to check your installed extensions from time to time.

How to remove EasyRecipesSearch

If you wish to use EasyRecipesSearch but also don’t want EasyRecipesSearch’smakers to have control over your internet search, you can do that. EasyRecipesSearch pretty much only exists to open the s.easyrecipessearch-serp.com/public/home.html website, which is where the recipe search happens. You could have the same functionality by saving s.easyrecipessearch-serp.com/public/home.html in your bookmarks.

EasyRecipesSearch lets you choose your search engine from Yahoo, Bing, and Google, which is a pretty limited selection, not to mention that your search working right is now in EasyRecipesSearch’s grace.

To remove EasyRecipesSearch, you can manually remove or disable it in web browser settings (detailed instructions in the following section). A scan with an antivirus program (such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.) would help you catch potentially unwanted programs, like adware bundles.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove the EasyRecipesSearch extension

TopRemoving EasyRecipesSearch from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to EasyRecipesSearch. Click on the trash bin icon next to EasyRecipesSearch or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to EasyRecipesSearch, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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.

TopRemoving EasyRecipesSearch from Firefox

• 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 EasyRecipesSearch 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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to EasyRecipesSearch, 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove EasyRecipesSearch from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to EasyRecipesSearch. Click on the "Remove" icon next to EasyRecipesSearch or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.