How to remove Easy Home Maker

How to find and delete Easy Home adware

What is Easy Home Maker adware? What it does?

This unwanted browser extension is categorized as adware designed to run malicious advertisements campaigns. Easy Home extension is also designed to monitor your online activities and collect your browsing-related data or other sensitive data.

Adware like this nasty program usually end up on your computer when you install some fake software package and don’t decline the installation of ‘recommended’ programs, or when you open files or run programs downloaded from malicious websites.

This nasty application makes itself ‘installed by enterprise policy’ so that you can’t uninstall it or you can’t undo the malicious changes made by this rough application. As a rule, adware program like Easy Home run malicious advertisements campaigns in the form of banners, coupons, fake software updates, fake security alert messages, actress or adult related ads, and other types of advertisements.

These malicious advertisements can also be appeared on your desktop even when browser is closed. Some of these suspicious advertisements redirect you to shady/questionable websites, while some malicious advertisements are deigned to run certain codes to install third parties’ software, potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) or malware in your computer.

Once installed or attackers behind this malware gain access to your computer, they will start modifying browser’s settings and/or System’s settings without your knowledge. Easy Home Maker unwanted extension as browser hijacker can modify the default homepage, new tab URLs and search engine of your browser with addresses of some fake search engines.

This infection or unwanted browser extension also offer cybercriminals to trace your online experience and collect your browsing-related data or other sensitive information. They can collect your some information such as IP address, URLs search, login ID & password of your various accounts, banking information, and more details.

These collected data can be shared with other attackers or third parties to generate some income from them. For example, once they gain access to your email account by collecting your email ID login credentials, then they can change the password of your email account and attempt to gain access to other accounts associated with your email accounts. In simple word, this dubious malware is unsafe for your online privacy & System security. So, it is important to find and remove Easy Home malware in Windows computer.

How did you get Easy Home Maker adware in Windows computer?

Potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), adware or malware like Start.myplaycity.com are distributed through other software package as additional offers. This false marketing method of packaging regular or legitimate software with PUAs, adware, browser hijackers or malware is known as ‘Software Bundling Method’ – is the mostly used mechanism by cybercriminals.

However, it is possible to avoid the installation of browser hijackers or malware included in software package. To do so, you should read terms & conditions, choose ‘Custom/Advanced/Manual’ settings, and remove all unnecessary programs by unticking their checkboxes in these settings, and then you can continue with installation to finish.

This way, you can remove all unnecessary programs or malicious additions included in software package and block them from installing. But in case if you choose ‘Recommended/Quick/Express’ settings in setup during installation instead of choosing ‘Custom/Advanced/Manual’ settings, then you install all additional programs included in software package into computer and this way, all malicious additions can also be installed.

On other hand, PUAs, adware or malware can also be downloaded/installed from malicious advertisements campaigns designed to run certain scripts. So, you should be alert while surfing online and avoid installing any applications from unknown/unofficial websites, and avoid clicking any links/ads displayed by malicious websites.

System infected with Easy Home Maker adware: What next?

Cybercriminals can take advantages of outdated software, or bugs associated with software installed in computer, and can trigger harmful malware. So, you should keep up-to-date all software including Operating System, antivirus software and other software installed in computer. Updating Operating System and all other software installed in computer can fix any problems associated with such software. So, you should regular check for software update and download/install the update if available.

If System is already installed infected this type of malware, then you can scan your computer with some powerful antivirus software. This tool offers you to find all threats including latest malware in computer, and then you can delete all detected threats with just single-click. After System scan is completed, please check if problem is resolved, and if not, you can re-scan your device for malware or viruses with antimalware to get rid of it.

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 Home Maker:

Remove the related items of Easy Home Maker 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 Home Maker 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 Home Maker) 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 Home Maker 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 Home Maker 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 Home Maker 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 Home Maker 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 Home Maker (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.