Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker - How to remove

Easytelevisionaccess.com is a website that can appear in your browser if you installed Easy Television Access (maybe even unintentionally). Although once Easy Television Access proposes to help you access online television, it’s mostly focused on influencing your internet searches and collecting data on your interests. It’s best to remove Easytelevisionaccess.com and other unnecessary browser extensions from your browser.

Details on Easytelevisionaccess.com:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Easytelevisionaccess.com affects the browser	Redirects searches to Yahoo.com, collects data about your browsing activities, replaces your new tab page, tries to offer more browser extensions.
Installation	Advertised online, bundled with free programs, promoted by adware.
How to remove Easy Television Access	Remove malware manually or with an antivirus app (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac), uninstall unwanted browser extensions, block notifications.

What is Easy Television Access

How it hijacks the browser

Easy Television Access is a browser extension that changes your new tab page and does pretty much nothing more. It’s a newtab virus and it tries to influence how you search the internet by injecting itself into your browser (by making it open Easytelevisionaccess.com in your new tab) and sending your searches to Yahoo. Oh, and there’s also an advertisement in the middle of Easytelevisionaccess.com.

Easy Television Access gets installed after being advertised as some kind of online television streaming tool. You can find ads for it online, especially in the search results of certain search engines, like Izito. If you already had an adware infection on your computer, you’re more likely to see ads for Easy Television Access, TV Streaming Online, TV Fans Online, Online TV Streamer, TV Now, and many other browser hijackers. But even if your computer is not infected, you can still encounter ads for these programs. They imply that Easy Television Access can help you watch online television and encourage you to install it.

Oh, and sometimes, browser hijackers come bundled with free programs and get installed without giving you a heads-up.

Unwanted changes to the browser

In reality, Easytelevisionaccess.com does nothing more than point you to unrelated sites that actually do television streams. It’s a useless site that offers nothing. Hulu, Netflix, and others exist and are accessible regardless of whether Easytelevisionaccess.com is there to link to them. Here’s a website reviewing top streaming services, if you’re curious.

Easy Television Access (and the other browser hijackers that I mentioned earlier) was made by Eightpoint Technologies, a company that’s made dozens and dozens of newtab viruses. Besides changing your new tab page, these hijackers read your browsing history and your search queries. Then they use this information to decide what ads you might be most interested in.

When you first see Easytelevisionaccess.com, it asks you to allow it to send notifications to your browser. Notifications are little pop-ups that appear in the corner of your screen. Often, they’re used to spam you with ads. For example, Easytelevisionaccess.com tries to push some related browser hijackers that take over your default search engine settings, which gives the search hijacker even more power. Sites like Historyhide.com or Searchencrypt.com aren’t actually helpful, they’re just more adware.

How to remove Easy Television Access

Uninstall Easy Television Access manually (instructions below) or have your antivirus app do it. Also, make sure to review your browser extensions other than Easy Television Access and remove the suspicious ones.

Use Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or another antivirus application to scan your computer. Whether you remove Easy Television Access manually or with your antivirus, it’s good to check and make sure that your computer is clean now.

To stop pop-up ads coming from Easytelevisionaccess.com, block notifications. Check out our post on web push notifications. basically, you need to access notification settings in the browser that’s showing the pop-ups, find Easytelevisionaccess.com and other unwanted sites, click the menu next to them, and choose the Block/Deny option. Access notification settings like this:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• New Edge – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopRemoving Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker 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 Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker. Click on the trash bin icon next to Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker 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 Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker, 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.

How to remove Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker 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 Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker 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.

TopRemoving Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker 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 Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker 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 Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker, 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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Easytelevisionaccess.com Hijacker and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

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