EasyToolOnline Ads - How to remove

EasyToolOnline is a website that’s supposed to help people find online utilities. But EasyToolOnline Promos and Advertisements by EasyToolOnline are extensions that, once installed, show people ads. EasyToolOnline targets people from the USA and causes pop-ups and ads injected into the content of various websites.

EasyToolOnline is a website that lists online utilities like Local Classifieds, Easy File Converter, and some other browser hijackers, as well as legitimate web tools. This extension works very similarly to PackTrackPlus, another webpage that dishonestly manipulates people into installing an adware extension.

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If EasyToolOnline Promos was installed, it can start showing you ads. The ads can be intrusive and annoying: pop-ups, redirects, links in text that lead to promoted content. This can severely disrupt your browsing experience and cost you focus, time, and computer processing power.

The EasyToolOnline extension is used to gather an audience for ads and earn money from advertisers who get to put their ads in front of people. These advertisements make use of the information that’s gathered about the users: their browsing habits and their demographics. Whether you see this as a breach of your privacy, or just a modern reality, I think it’s still important to be able to trust the people who have your data — and that seems unlikely with EasyToolOnline’s developers.

How was EasyToolOnline installed?

EasyToolOnline is an extension that’s actually responsible for the ads, but it’s difficult to imagine someone installing it willingly. This is why it’s important to examine how EasyToolOnline is distributed. Unsurprisingly, the extension uses distribution methods that are easy to abuse to push malware: bundling and dishonest ads on illegitimate advertising networks.

Malicious ads, adware viruses, or bundlers are most likely responsible for the Advertisements by EasyToolOnline extension being installed. But not necessarily — it’s also possible to find EasyToolOnline organically. Understanding how exactly EasyToolOnline ended up on your computer is important — it’ll let you know whether you need to worry about having an adware infection.

Bundling is just a method of aggressively promoting software by including it with another program, like a free sample. The problem is that the additional software is often poorly labeled, is installed by default, and sometimes the information about the additional software is hidden in Advanced options or omitted from the installer entirely. If EasyToolOnline was installed using this method, there must be another program that you installed during the time that advertisements form EasyToolOnline started. Uninstalling the bundler won’t affect EasyToolOnline, but it’s useful to know what to be careful of in the future.

Adware programs are those programs which show ads to users and try to do that above everything else. If you are seeing pop-up ads opening constantly, if new tabs in your browser open on their own, if websites look like they have more ads than usual, then you might have adware. If you never searched for EasyToolOnline but it’s still somehow installed, adware could be responsible for it.

Adware programs come in a few forms. One is a desktop application. It might have been included in a freeware bundle, or it might secretly be one of the installed tools that you don’t even suspect. Adware like this probably constantly shows pop-ups and new tabs with specific pages, and if EasyToolOnline was promoted to you this way, time to scan your computer and remove whatever adware has infected it.

Another type of adware is a browser hijacker — like what EasyToolOnline is. EasyToolOnline has the power to “read and change all your data on the websites you visit”, which allows it to manipulate the way that websites are displayed to you. Injecting ads into content is then trivial, and if some of them are malicious, they could cause problems in the future.

But you don’t necessarily need an adware infection to see malicious ads promoting malware and unwanted software. Browser hijackers like EasyToolOnline are frequently distributed using ads on shady websites that accept some aggressive and dishonest ads and allow new windows and tabs to be opened.

How to stop EasyToolOnline Ads

The ads will stop when the EasyToolOnline extension is removed, notifications from it are blocked, and, if any malware was lurking on your system, that’s uninstalled.

You only need to access your browser settings to remove unwanted extensions, like it’s shown in the guide below. There, you can also review your notification permissions and block EasyToolOnline and all the ones that you don’t want to see. But removing adware is a bit more complicated, at least manually; you can look at your installed applications and research them to find out what they are, then uninstall them and remove all the files they left behind — don’t forget to scan your device with an antivirus to make sure that you got rid of all the malware. It’s simpler to use an antivirus program, like Spyhunter, to catch and delete all malicious software.

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How to remove EasyToolOnline using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like EasyToolOnline Ads 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 EasyToolOnline . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make EasyToolOnline Ads 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 EasyToolOnline from macOS

Delete EasyToolOnline Ads from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the EasyToolOnline 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 EasyToolOnline Ads 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 EasyToolOnline Ads, 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 EasyToolOnline Ads 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 EasyToolOnline Ads 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 EasyToolOnline, 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 EasyToolOnline Ads 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 EasyToolOnline Ads, 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 EasyToolOnline Ads from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall EasyToolOnline 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 EasyToolOnline Ads, 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.