Your Photo Editor Hijacker - How to remove

Your Photo Editor is promoted as a wonderful tool for quickly accessing online photo-editing tools. This might sound great, but Your Photo Editor is not exactly honest about what it really wants from its users. This extension bundles unwanted add-ons that record your browsing activities and stop you from using certain websites, such as Bing.com or Google.com.

Honestly, it does not make much sense to edit your photos online when you can use a desktop application and with no bandwidth or storage limitations. If you do want to use an extension that could edit your photos, it’s a good idea to research the app and its developer before you install it. Your Photo Editor, for example, is developed by a company called Eightpoint Technologies — the company responsible for Free Online Manuals, search.heasyconverter.co, and other browser hijackers.

Malicious browser extensions are ubiquitous and available on official websites. If an extension hijacks your browser, it takes over one of the most important pieces of software that you likely use. The browser can see your passwords, what you search for, displays all the content, and uploads your messages online. Only trusted and competent add-ons should be given access to such an important program, to make sure that they don’t abuse their power the way that Your Photo Editor does.

What’s wrong with Your Photo Editor

“search and access popular photoeditor quick links instantly from your new tab page!”

The description of Your Photo Editor promises quick links to online editors, and it does provide a few. The three links are placed in a toolbar on the search.hyourphotoeditor.net page. But if you just want your favorite sites to be instantly accessible, those features are already built into most web browsers. Like other potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), Your Photo Editor takes an existing feature and pretends to have invented it.

Your Photo Editor even mentions that it features a “versatile image editor” while it has no such thing: it only has links to photo editing sites. For an editing enthusiast, a couple of online collage makers is not nearly good enough, but all that Your Photo Editor needs is for people to install it, not to provide a good experience or to be useful.

When your browser is hijacked by Your Photo Editor, your homepage is changed to search.hyourphotoeditor.net and your browser settings, including the privacy settings, are changed to enable the extensions to easier track and control your browsing activity. Your Photo Editor bundles a few add-ons that have hijacking abilities better than Your Photo Editor. They might seem attractive, too: a privacy-protector, an ad-blocker… These extensions have the ability to watch your browsing history, change the way that you can interact with websites, and change the settings of your browser. The result is that you lose the ability to use the search websites that you prefer, as the hijackers keep redirecting you to only the approved pages.

For example, when I try using google.com to search for something, the results page is not Google’s results page; it’s SearchEcrypt’s.

This behavior is incredibly intrusive and frustrating. You’re forced by Your Photo Editor to only use an ad-filled search engine that doesn’t find results as accurately as its competitors. Not to mention that each search query is recorded and used later for advertising purposes.

How to uninstall Your Photo Editor

Scan your computer with Spyhunter, or another antivirus program to find and remove adware, or uninstall it manually (if you have any). PUPs and adware could have installed Your Photo Editor by hiding unwanted programs inside the installation of a wanted program. If you remember downloading a free application at the same time as Your Photo Editor infected your browser, it might be that that program was bundled with some unwanted software.

If you actually found Your Photo Editor yourself, then you don’t need to be too concerned. Just uninstall this hostile browser hijacker and all the ones that were bundled with it, and you should be okay.

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How to remove Your Photo Editor using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Your Photo Editor Hijacker 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 Your Photo Editor . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Your Photo Editor Hijacker 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 Your Photo Editor from macOS

Delete Your Photo Editor Hijacker from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Your Photo Editor 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 Your Photo Editor 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 Your Photo Editor Hijacker, 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 Your Photo Editor 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 Your Photo Editor 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 Your Photo Editor, 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 Your Photo Editor 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 Your Photo Editor 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 Your Photo Editor 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 Your Photo Editor 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 Your Photo Editor Hijacker, 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.