Easy Current News Access - How to remove

If Easy Current News Access gets installed, it changes your search settings to Yahoo.com. And it may be installed alongside a few other browser extensions. You can even get Easy Current News Access without meaning to, thanks to how deceptive the ads for it are. On top of that, pop-up ads from Youreasycurrentnewsaccess.com might appear in your browser. It’s all a bit annoying. Luckily, it’s not complicated to remove Easy Current News Access.

What is Easy Current News Access:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Easy Current News Access gets installed	Advertised on alternative search engines, promoted by adware infections, installed alongside other browser hijackers, downloaded with bundlers.
Issues and problems	Annoying pop-up ads, almost nonexistent news-related functionality, search settings changed to Yahoo.com.
Remove Easy Current News Access	Access browser settings and remove unwanted extensions, find and remove adware and malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.), turn off pop-ups from Youreasycurrentnewsaccess.com.

How Easy Current News Access gets installed

Easy Current News Access gets recommended by another browser extension. There are these sites that only exist to push browser extensions. While looking for Google Maps, I found one map site that promised to find the satellite view of any address – Streetview.net. I typed something in and was told to install a browser extension to see the results. Then another and another one.

I’ve seen a shipment tracking add-on, an obituary-related extension, and a breaking news new-tab do this type of thing. They get installed and immediately open Youreasycurrentnewsaccess.com, which asks you to “Continue”. Unintuitively, “Continue” here means “install a whole new extension”. So you may end up with three or more browser extensions that you didn’t ask for. It’s deceptive and predatory.

But how do people find these browser hijacker-pushing sites in the first place? The cause is manipulated internet search results. Did you notice suspiciously many ads at the top of the internet search page? Did search results sometimes open other search result pages (Info.com, Zapmeta.com, Pronto.com, etc.)? Did your default search result site change recently? If so, you may have had a browser hijacker messing with your web search. It’s simple to remove it, once you realize the problem.

Another possibility is getting Easy Current News Access installed by a freeware bundler. Bundling is a way to monetize free programs by taking money from developers of various other programs and then bundling their apps with the main free program. Unfortunately, it’s often done in a way where it’s easy to accidentally let all the offers to get installed.

What is Easy Current News Access

Easy Current News Access changes your web browser’s default search engine to Yahoo. Its goal is to gather data on your browsing habits and to influence which sites you are likely to visit. Easy Current News Access can then inflate those sites’ traffic and make them advertising money.

As a front, though, Easy Current News Access is a news-focused browser add-on that can help you keep up with the news. It’s supposed to “enhances your default search with streamlined news search capabilities”, as it says on Youreasycurrentnewsaccess.com. However, all it does it open CNN. That’s literally all it does. Maybe my version of Easy Current News Access is broken, but then it’s also broken for the other twenty thousand people who have this extension in their browsers.

In other words, Easy Current News Access:

• appears as a screen of another browser extension’s installation,
• asks to be able to show you notifications,
• claims to help you keep up with the news,
• changes your search settings,
• reads your browsing history,
• does not actually help you keep up with the news.

Not all browser extensions are bad like Easy Current News Access, but many of them do things like logging your browsing history or showing you pop-up ads. They do this to make a bit of money. The developer spent time developing the extension and they may want a return on investment. Often, that means wasting your time and intruding on your privacy. So, always carefully weigh if you’re willing to deal with these free products.

If you want to add a few news websites to your browser for easy access, you can do that pretty easily – but only after getting rid of any and all browser hijackers.

How to remove Easy Current News Access

To do that, you should open browser extension settings and review your extensions. Remove (or disable) all the add-ons that are installed in your web browser that you don’t remember installing, do not use, or are suspicious of. The instructions with screenshots are in the following section.

If your browser is still not back to normal, check the other extensions. Disable all of them until the problem disappears. Or scan your computer with an anti-malware program, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or another tool. An antivirus scan can tell you if there are still any potentially unwanted programs on your device.

Also, I mentioned that Youreasycurrentnewsaccess.com offers to show you notifications. If you allowed them, you might sometimes see pop-ups offering more browser extensions and other products. You can check this article on web notifications to learn how to turn off these pop-up ads.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove unwanted extensions

TopHow To remove Easy Current News Access 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 Easy Current News Access, 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 Easy Current News Access 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 Easy Current News Access, 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.