How to remove Easy Games Tab browser hijacker from PC

Effective guide to delete Easy Games Tab immediately

Easy Games Tab is described as browser hijacker that has been distributed and created by hackers with an aim to make illegal online profit. This malicious app is mainly designed to provide user to access to various online gaming related pages. Simply said, this app is used to promote fake search engine by changing certain browser settings in order to promote easygamestab.com. As we know, users do not download/install browser hijackers intentionally and therefore it has been categorized as potentially unwanted applications. Apart from this, most browser hijackers have the ability to track data which are used to spy users browsing habits.

More about Easy Games Tab

Like most other browser hijackers of this type, Easy Games Tab has the ability to make several unwanted changes into your browser settings like homepage, default search engine and new tab URL in order to promote its malicious domain. The main purpose of this malware is to insist users to visit this address when they enter any query into URL bar. Although, most fake search engines do not provide unique results and some of them even show misleading results. Thus, it becomes impossible for user to change those available settings until they remove installed browser hijackers.

What’s more, most PUAs can track data. They record users browsing activity including addresses of visited pages, IP addresses, geo-location etc and collect their personal as well as sensitive details. Later developers behind this send all those collected details with third parties who misuse it in order to make illegal profit. Simply we can say that users who have installed this type of browser hijackers on their system cause lots of severe privacy issues, browsing safety and even lead to identity exposure. So, to prevent all such troubles, we strongly recommend you to remove Easy Games Tab and all suspicious apps soon from the computer.

Quick Glance

Name: Easy Games Tab

Threat Type: Browser Hijacker, Redirect, Search Hijacker, Toolbar, Unwanted New Tab

Functionality: This app supposed to provide a quick access to various online gaming-related pages

Symptoms: altered Internet browser settings (homepage, default Internet search engine, new tab settings). Users are encouraged to visit the hijacker’s website and search the Internet using their search engines.

Distribution methods: Deceptive pop-up ads, free software installers (bundling), fake Flash Player installers.

Damage: Internet browser tracking (potential privacy issues), display of unwanted ads, redirects to dubious websites.

Removal: In order to remove Easy Games Tab, you are recommended to go through given below removal instructions.

How your computer gets infected from Easy Games Tab?

In most cases, PUAs gets downloaded and installed into your system through the installation setups of other free programs. This misleading marketing technique is called bundling. Usually, information about such apps can be found in setups of custom, advanced and other similar settings of the download/installation processes. Thus, in such situation users rush and skip all those important procedures and often lead to inadvertent installation of unwanted programs. Some PUAs also spread through intrusive adverts that are mainly designed to run malicious scripts that can cause unnecessary applications without knowledge.

How to avoid installation of PUAs?

All programs and files should only be downloaded by using official websites and through direct download links. Other download channels like third party downloader/installer, unofficial pages, peer to peer networks and other similar channels as they are often used to distribute unwanted or even malicious apps. So, you must avoid against using them. Moreover, it is always good to check settings that are available in any download or installation setup and see if any then decline it immediately. Further, it is not safe to click on intrusive ads that are displayed on dubious websites. Such ads often open harmful websites or cause unwanted downloads or installations.

Remove Easy Games Tab

Manual malware removal threat is hectic and time-consuming as it takes lots of time to detect and delete this nasty threat. So, if you are a novice users then we suggest you to use some reliable anti-malware removal tool such as Spyhunter that has the capability to remove Easy Games Tab and all infiltrated browser hijackers immediately from the computer.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Easy Games Tab:

Remove the related items of Easy Games Tab using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Easy Games Tab issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Easy Games Tab) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Easy Games Tab removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Easy Games Tab still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Easy Games Tab plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Easy Games Tab removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Easy Games Tab (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.