Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com - How to remove

Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com looks like a practical and trustworthy browser enhancement but, unfortunately, it’s considered to be a browser hijacker. That’s because the ways that hgeteasytemplatespro.com is distributed aren’t always honest — you might have even found it attached to your browser despite never installing it. Besides, hgeteasytemplatespro.com makes some invasive and unnecessary changes to your browser: it can control what you are able to do, which sites you access, and what is displayed to you. Because hgeteasytemplatespro.com doesn’t justify this intrusive behavior, it’s considered to be potentially harmful.

When it comes to malware, hgeteasytemplatespro.com is a very mild example. Aggressive promotion and installation, undisclosed and unnecessary changes to your settings are things that many legitimate programs do, too — but this behavior is still not okay. It’s important to be informed about the potential harms of the hgeteasytemplatespro.com extension, about how software like this spreads, and how it can be abused by unethical people online.

Symptoms of hgeteasytemplatespro.com

Hgeteasytemplatespro.com is disruptive compared to normal browser extensions: it requires a new home page (and new tab page) to be set. That’s very unnecessary — all that hgeteasytemplatespro.com does is post a few links to certain websites. But the new tab page does give the creators an excuse to put a search bar there. It also links to a page that hgeteasytemplatespro.com has partnered with. This way, the extension routes your and the other users’ traffic to the websites that it wants.

The meat of hgeteasytemplatespro.com is the redirecting of users to the partner websites where ads are displayed. More people can see those ads, making more money for the extension and its partners. These websites aren’t necessarily malicious. For example, the Yahoo search is a functional search engine. Of course, search engines are the websites which display Web search results and they’re generally monetized by displaying ads among the results, which makes it useful for them to have a lot of users. Allowing applications like hgeteasytemplatespro.com to promote them doesn’t mean that they agree with the aggressive promotion tactics.

Some users of hgeteasytemplatespro.com might also experience an increased amount of redirects, pop-up ads, banners, and in-text advertisements. Even if the ads are not caused by the add-on directly, they are likely connected. Hgeteasytemplatespro.com bundles other adware applications, some of which are a lot more disruptive and powerful than it. It tricks people to install add-ons that they don’t want by showing them the installation windows and not providing a clear way to quit the process. Withholding information, deceiving people, other unfortunate behaviors are a part of why hgeteasytemplatespro.com is classified as malicious by some experts.

Extensions should be installed carefully, as they’re capable of a lot, including harm. Some are malicious, others mean well but are hijacked and exploited by third parties. For now, despite the best efforts of the browser developers, malicious add-ons continue to be developed and deceive users.

How hijackers are distributed

Most of the hgeteasytemplatespro.com users got it in one of two ways:

• Freeware bundles — installers that install not juts the application you wanted, but also some additional ones.
• Malicious ads — either notification spam, redirects, or an adware infection.

Bundles are one infamous way that a lot of unwanted, dishonest, malicious, or just desperate programs try to make it onto people’s computers. While bundlers are supposed to ask you for permission to install the additional software, they either don’t listen, or they hide the option in a way that most people don’t notice it. Innocent graphics like giant, bright buttons with vague words like “Continue” can be red flags because of their vagueness. Even people with experience dodging the unwanted offers don’t always succeed. If hgeteasytemplatespro.com and other browser add-ons were attached to your browser out-of-the-blue, you can suspect that they were bundled with some free program.

Malicious ads also often promote hgeteasytemplatespro.com. Online, hgeteasytemplatespro.com has a neat, professional-looking website that might give visitors the impression that the product is professional and safe. The small description is not enough to explain anything, but the only way forward is to install hgeteasytemplatespro.com. Most of all, this installation page is discovered by people who are victims of adware — either online or infecting their desktop. If you often go to sites that offer deceptive, legally-gray functions, you know that a lot of them are filled with very aggressive ads. Adware viruses, if they infect your computer, can seemingly turn the whole internet into a minefield of malicious ads. And, often, they advertise hijackers such as hgeteasytemplatespro.com, as well as other malware and dubious products.

Hgeteasytemplatespro.com is developed by Eightpoint Technologies Ltd. That’s an issue in itself — many of this company’s products are considered to be malicious, such as MergeDocsNow, MyMapsExpress, and YourFreePdfConverterNowPro. So, it’s difficult to trust anything that the company released anymore.

How to remove hgeteasytemplatespro.com

Hgeteasytemplatespro.com’s new tab page is the face of this extension — but the search redirects, the other under-the-hood modifications are also essential parts. You can go to search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com yourself and even set it as your home page without installing the Get Easy Templates Pro add-on and having to give up your privacy. You could even keep using your favorite search engines. As well, you are free to skip hgeteasytemplatespro.com completely and just add the links that it lists to your bookmarks so that you can always reach them as quickly as you want to — no hijacker necessary.

To remove all unwanted browser extensions, access the settings of your browser. There, a list of your add-ons is displayed and you can easily review all of them and decide which ones are useful, and which you might want to remove. Don’t be surprised if you see some other hijackers that are sitting there — malicious add-ons are often installed in little bundles. Just decide which ones you don’t use and which are suspicious, then remove or disable them.

Based on how hgeteasytemplatespro.com is spread online (bundlers, malvertising), there’s a risk that some junkware is still lurking on your system. If you know which programs are responsible for installing other applications in the background, you might want to remove them or at least keep a close eye on them. If you don’t know which applications to suspect, you might employ the help of some aggressive antivirus solution — we recommend Spyhunter (Windows), or Combo-Cleaner (Mac) for a free scan that might reveal whether all the programs on your computer are reputable and safe, or if you need to investigate some of them more closely.

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How to remove hgeteasytemplatespro using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com 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 hgeteasytemplatespro . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com 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 hgeteasytemplatespro from macOS

Delete Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the hgeteasytemplatespro 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.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com 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 hgeteasytemplatespro, 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.

TopRemoving Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com 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 hgeteasytemplatespro. Click on the trash bin icon next to Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com 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 hgeteasytemplatespro, 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 Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com 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 hgeteasytemplatespro 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 Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com, 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 Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com 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 hgeteasytemplatespro. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com 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 hgeteasytemplatespro from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Search.hgeteasytemplatespro.com. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

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

• Click on the 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.