Easy Eyes Hijacker - How to remove

Easy Eyes is a browser extension that enables dark mode in web pages. For example, change the appearance of the websites that you visit to use a dark background.

But there’s a problem – Easy Eyes also redirects searches, injects ad banners, opens unwanted sites in new browser tabs, and tracks user data for advertising purposes. In other words, Easy Eyes is a browser hijacker. It should be removed as soon as it’s discovered to avoid it causing more problems.

About Easy Eyes:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
Infection symptoms	Ransom search redirects to unfamiliar sites, unusual pop-up and banner ads.
How Easy Eyes hijacks browsers	It is advertised online in a way that leads people to install it without meaning to.
How to get rid of Easy Eyes	Uninstall unwanted extensions, review your home page and search settings, find and remove all malware with antivirus tools (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

What is Easy Eyes?

Easy Eyes hijacks internet search

Easy Eyes is a simple extension that changes the colors of the websites that you visit. It is pretty minimal and severely lacks customization compared to other dark mode extensions, but it does work.

However, when you install Easy Eyes, it checks whether you installed it after seeing an ad for it. And if you did, Easy Eyes starts redirecting your searches:

• Easy Eyes waits for you to open Bing and Google search.
• If one of these sites is open in your browser, the extension grabs your search query from the address and then adds the search query to its own search link.
• Easy Eyes closes the search tab and opens a new tab with its own link.

Easy Eyes returns the search results on Websearches.club, Fxsmash.xyz, or another alternative search site. Such sites don’t have any features to make them worth using, so they get malicious extensions like Easy Eyes to funnel traffic to them.

The extension might only redirect search irregularly, only hijacking every other search. You might also see new browser windows or tabs open on their own from time to time, also irregularly. The inconsistency of these events can be maddening, but don’t doubt your experience. When something goes wrong in your browser, it’s almost always the fault of a browser extension (in this case, Easy Eyes).

It tracks data and shows ads

As it interferes with internet searches, Easy Eyes can track user data. It logs people’s IPs, advertising identifiers, browsing history, and other information that helps recognize and track users. According to its privacy policy, Easy Eyes uses this information to show interest-based ads.

As we mentioned before, the extension can also read search queries. This isn’t mentioned in its privacy policy, so it’s unclear if people’s search history is recorded and used anywhere. If it is, it could be very useful for advertisers.

Another issue is that Easy Eyes does not reveal its developer. All we have is an email address. Who is the company behind this extension? Who pays for the websites?

Whoever it is, they have many very similar extensions, including Retina Defense, Custom Look, Beauty Backgrounds, Private Video, and others. Unfortunately, some of these extensions have thousands of users on the Chrome Web Store. Luckily, they get removed pretty regularly. These extensions have short lives.

How to get rid of Easy Eyes

Open the extensions page in your browser. Here, you can remove or disable Easy Eyes and other unwanted extensions. Instructions for how to do this can be found at the bottom.

It might be worth it to scan your computer with an antivirus program, like Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or others. If antivirus scanners detect anything suspicious on your device, look into it and remove the item if needed.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopHow To remove Easy Eyes 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 Easy Eyes 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 Easy Eyes 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 Easy Eyes 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 Easy Eyes 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 Easy Eyes 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 Easy Eyes Hijacker, 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.