Easy Driving Directions Promos - How to remove

Easy Driving Directions Promos is a browser extension for showing you more ads. It’s supposed to be a way for you to pay for the free Easy Driving Directions website. This type of browser hijacking is not very common but it does happen, mostly with online maps and file converters. People whose browsers are hijacked with Easy Driving Directions Promos may have a harder time browsing the internet because of all the notifications, pop-ups, and redirects to unfamiliar sites.

Easy Driving Directions Promos is plain adware:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, adware.
Similar threats	TheMediaConverter Promos, Easy File Converter Plus Promos, Maps & Directions Online Promos, ExpressDirections Promos.
Easy Driving Directions Promos hijacking symptoms	Unexpected pop-up ads from Easy Driving Directions Promos, unexpected redirects and new tabs, links don’t open the correct website, floating ads and notifications from EasyDrivingDirections.co.
Remove Easy Driving Directions Promos	Delete malware (you can use Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Malwarebytes, or another program), uninstall unwanted extensions from your browser.

Dishonest installation

Ads and redirects

Over ten thousand people have Easy Driving Directions Promos on their browsers. It’s hard to believe that anyone would install an extension that’s all about showing you ads. Maybe people don’t?

On the Chrome Web Store, Easy Driving Directions Promos has no reviews and only one rating (of one star). Such a disparity between the number of reviews/ratings and the number of users is a sign of dishonest installation. It might show that most users of Easy Driving Directions Promos don’t know they have it.

How could that happen?

Looking at web analytics, it seems like many victims of Easy Driving Directions Promos have visited some dubious online map services: Maps & Directions, Map Navs, Maps Assist, MyMapsExpress, and some others. Many such sites let you search for driving directions but ask you to install their browser extension to see the results.

These map extensions are actually browser hijackers that try to control how you search the web: they replace your search engine, replace your new tab page, or take a few popular sites (like Google.com) and fill them with ads. They are adware, just like Easy Driving Directions Promos, but less honest about it.

Also, Easy Driving Directions Promos is advertised by Infolinks – an advertising network that’s been abused by fraudsters to infect people’s computers to deliver unwanted ads.

So, dishonest advertising is a plausible answer.

Bundling

Another option is bundling. This is when a free program or browser extension gets you to install unwanted software. Free programs offer additional stuff during the installation, such as a new search engine for your browser. Sometimes, freeware doesn’t make it clear that optional software is being offered, so if you just click “Continue”, you apparently agreed to install whatever was on the last screen! If you install a lot of freeware, you’re very familiar with these scenarios.

Bundling is also possible with extensions. Sometimes you install one extension only to be asked to agree to continue. In reality, that’s a new extension being offered.

How Easy Driving Directions Promos works

Unlike other hijackers, Easy Driving Directions Promos doesn’t replace your new tab page or your search engine. Instead, it shows advertisements on multiple websites. For this purpose, it asks only one permission wen being installed on Chrome: to read and change your data on the websites you visit. This means all the websites. Whether you’re online shopping, reading the news, or accessing your bank account, Easy Driving Directions Promos can see it.

Not only can it read your data, but it can also change what the webpages you access look like to you by injecting ads into them. Webpages are basically just text documents that your browser downloads, so a browser extension that has access to them can add things in and take things out. In theory, this extension could, for example, replace ads, change text, and force unwanted new tabs to open whenever you click on your screen.

Also, it may show unwanted notification pop-ups.

The types of ads that hijackers show tend to be pretty low-quality. They often promote other browser hijackers, alternative search engines, sometimes even dangerous scams. As long as Easy Driving Directions Promos is installed, be careful and skeptical. Especially of fake virus and software update alerts – they spread malware.

How to remove Easy Driving Directions Promos

First, you may want to check your computer for malware. If you got Easy Driving Directions Promos via bundling or bad ads, some malicious script may prevent it from being uninstalled. So, scan your device with a trusted antivirus tool, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for Mac OS, Malwarebytes, or another program. They should recognize and warn you if they find some malware.

As for Easy Driving Directions Promos, if you want to, you can have an antivirus program remove it, or you can do it yourself. Just open browser settings and choose to disable or remove unwanted extensions.

If notifications from Easydrivingdirections.co are tormenting you, check out this article on how to block them.

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Manual removal instructions

How to remove Easy Driving Directions Promos using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Easy Driving Directions Promos 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 Easy Driving Directions Promos . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Easy Driving Directions Promos 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.

TopRemoving Easy Driving Directions Promos 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 Easy Driving Directions Promos. Click on the trash bin icon next to Easy Driving Directions Promos 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 Easy Driving Directions Promos, 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 Easy Driving Directions Promos 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 Easy Driving Directions Promos 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 Easy Driving Directions Promos, 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.