Search.heasydiyapppro.com Hijacker - How to remove

Having your home page set as search.heasydiyapppro.com and your search hijacked by Yahoo might not look like a big deal, but it’s still worth examining the how and the why of its installation. This home page is set by a browser add-on that uses some dubious distribution methods and sets off quite a few reputable antivirus programs. On its own, search.heasydiyapppro.com isn’t a dangerous website, but the context of its installation and distribution could reveal some security holes in your system.

A browser extension is a piece of software that makes unwanted changes to your browser settings or otherwise interferes with the normal functioning of a browser. In the case of search.heasydiyapppro.com, an extension called Easy DIY Pro App (Chrome), Easy DIY App (Internet Explorer), or HowTo (Firefox).

Why search.heasydiyapppro.com is problematic

While search.heasydiyapppro.com is not a virus, it’s still considered unsafe, given labels like “browser hijacker”, “bundler”, “adware”. There are legitimate reasons for this — other than the fact that the company that developed search.heasydiyapppro.com, Eightpoint Technologies, has a history of creating and spreading PUPs (potentially unwanted programs).

Search.heasydiyapppro.com makes unnecessary changes to your browser: sets a new search engine intended to be used. While Yahoo is a legitimate search engine, not everyone wants to use it. You can argue that the new tab is needed for the extension to work (I disagree, lots of extensions provide more functionality without hijacking the new tab page and the home page), but replacing the search site is just search.heasydiyapppro.com overstepping its boundaries. search.heasydiyapppro.com even bundles another extension (Search Encrypt) on the Chrome browser to help it hijack the search more completely. Search Encrypt will redirect you when you attempt to use search sites that it doesn’t approve of.

Search.heasydiyapppro.com acts like mild adware. Yahoo already shows a lot of ads in the results page, but search.heasydiyapppro.com injects even more (according to my experimenting), so get used to scrolling way down to find relevant results. Meanwhile, search.heasydiyapppro.com collects data about you: your IP, location, software and hardware — and everything that you search for. This helps make the ads more relevant.

All of this on top of the extension honestly being nothing more than a few links to DIY-related websites. This functionality is very minimal and does not even justify the existence of search.heasydiyapppro.com from a user’s point of view.

How search.heasydiyapppro.com is distributed

Advertising and bundling are the two main ways that search.heasydiyapppro.com gets installed on computers.

And while there is nothing wrong with using ads, hijackers like search.heasydiyapppro.com frequently appear promoted by adware. Pages like Dredrewlaha.info, which hijack notifications to deliver annoying pop-up ads and to open unwanted pages in the browser, often advertise extensions like MergeDocsNow and search.heasyspeedtestapp.com. This shows that the developers of hijackers are willing to partner with malicious adware just to get more people to install their program.

With the same motive, bundling is used to install search.heasydiyapppro.com on computers, even in the background. If the victim s too shy to mess with the browser settings and not very knowledgeable if technology, they might decide that the change is normal, official, and they don’t do anything about this. Bundling does often result in installation regardless of the victim’s knowledge and consent.

How to remove search.heasydiyapppro.com

Getting rid of search.heasydiyapppro.com and the other hijacker extensions is the only way to get back control of your new tab page and your search engine. Search Encrypt won’t even allow you to set another search engine as long as it is enabled, and Easy DIY Pro App won’t allow you to change your new tab page from search.heasydiyapppro.com until it’s disabled or removed, either. So, if you like some of the search.heasydiyapppro.com functionality, you either need to find an alternate way (such as saving the useful links yourself), or keep using it (which cybersecurity professionals advise against).

Know that you can always remove (and reinstall, if you want) an extension very simply. The guide for each browser is below this article. Take Chrome, for example: look for the extension icon next to your address bar, right-click it, then choose “Remove from Chrome”.

It is advised that you scan your system with a strong antivirus program to find any PUPs on your system, but especially if you don’t remember even installing search.heasydiyapppro.com, or if you uninstall it but it keeps coming back. Spyhunter would be good for finding the unwanted applications.

That said, because search.heasydiyapppro.com is distributed using malware, finding it after it’s been removed can be tricky. The extension seems to be hidden from normal search and requires a direct link to the installation page. Maybe that’s for the best.

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How to remove heasydiyapppro using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Easy DIY Pro App 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 DIY App . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make HowTo 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 HowTo from macOS

Delete Search.heasydiyapppro.com Hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the heasydiyapppro 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 Search.heasydiyapppro.com Hijacker 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 HowTo, 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 Search.heasydiyapppro.com Hijacker 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 Search.heasydiyapppro.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.
  
• 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 DIY Pro App, 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 Search.heasydiyapppro.com Hijacker 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 Search.heasydiyapppro.com Hijacker, 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 Search.heasydiyapppro.com Hijacker 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 DIY App 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 HowTo, 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.