Search.heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker - How to remove

Heasyradioplayer.com is a browser plugin that’s considered to be malware by many of the most reputable antivirus tools. It bundles an unwanted extension with it, redirects to the Yahoo and HideMySearches search engines, replaces your home page, tracks your browsing activity, and uses its power to manipulate the browser to display advertisements. This heasyradioplayer.com’s developer has a history of releasing dishonest browser plugins and using adware viruses to promote them.

Heasyradioplayer.com offers to help people find online radio and music streaming websites. The page has direct links to a few of the most popular websites, such as iHeartRadio, YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Pandora. As heasyradioplayer.com says:

One click access to popular streaming services! Access radio playlists from one of your favorite streaming providers.

Other very similar browser add-ons are Search.hfreeonlineradioapp2.com, Streaming Time, search.hontheradio.co, Home.centralhubradio.com, Home.radiostreambutler.com, Search.freeliveradio.co, MyRadioAccess, Search.searchlttradionow.com, Search.streamradionow.com, Discover Live Radio, Search.searchradioa.com, Search.yourradionow.com, RadioRage, and others. Many of these plugins look remarkably similar to heasyradioplayer.com. Could Easy Radio Player really be somehow unsafe?

Should heasyradioplayer.com be uninstalled?

The extension is detected as malicious by a lot of antivirus programs. Easy Radio Player is a simple, ad-supported extension. But many various free commercial products online use ads to survive. Why then is heasyradioplayer.com considered to be bad?

Legitimate products have a few features:

• Provide useful functions.
• Are honest about their intentions and keep contact with their users, welcome reviews and feedback.
• Do not install their software without your consent.
• Do not take unnecessary privileges that give their software too much power.

Some high-profile programs overstep their bounds and even small missteps sometimes cause a scandal.

Unfortunately, this is quite different from heasyradioplayer.com, where dishonesty and disrespect for your privacy are the norm:

• The heasyradioplayer.com has very little useful functionality.
• There are no reviews of Easy Radio Player by genuine users despite there being thousands of people who installed it (this is likely because of the way that heasyradioplayer.com is promoted).
• Heasyradioplayer.com’s developers use the services of adware viruses, make use of bundling (a type of optional installation that bets on people’s carelessness to smuggle software on their computers unnoticed).
• Heasyradioplayer.com has permissions that are not needed for its promised functionality but help the plugin take more control of your browser and get more data about you.

When being installed on Chrome, heasyradioplayer.com bundles www.hidemysearches.com and makes it difficult to refuse. This is difficult from what Eightpoint (the company responsible for heasyradioplayer.com) used to do back when it always bundled SearchEncrypt, a very similar search hijacker that poses as a privacy plugin.

How to remove heasyradioplayer.com

If you actually like heasyradioplayer.com, don’t mind having to use Yahoo (it’s a legitimate search engine, if a bit too full of ads), and are okay with heasyradioplayer.com having a bit excessive permissions, don’t feel pressured to remove this plugin. Just know that you can always uninstall it if you want to.

Luckily, heasyradioplayer.com provides instructions to remove the plugin from all the browsers that it applies to — the “Uninstall” link at the bottom of heasyradioplayer.com opens them. Removal instructions are also included below this article.

Whether or not you continue using heasyradioplayer.com, t’s worth reviewing your installed programs. Since most viruses and potentially unwanted programs use the same distribution strategies, and since heasyradioplayer.com is considered to be mild malware, there is a risk that your computer is infected with a few more PUPs. Check your installed extensions, review the desktop applications. Scan your computer with Spyhunter (Windows) or Combo-Cleaner (Mac). If any potentially unwanted programs are found, it would be safest to remove them and try not to install any more.

How to avoid malicious plugins

Based on how malware is distributed, we can come up with a few ways to avoid downloading dangerous programs, malicious extensions, and viruses and leaking private data.

First, be suspicious of freeware download websites, especially ones that use their own installers. If you must use them, be very careful during the installation process, notice if any additional offers are included, and decide carefully if you want them installed.

Always think carefully before downloading and installing anything. Know that you’re not obligated to complete installation just because you started it. I’m reminded of when heasyradioplayer.com tries to make the hidemysearches.com installation look mandatory. It displayed a banner with big, bright text “Click Add to Chrome to continue…” and “Optional” in small and plain text below. It’s worth being overly careful to avoid installing software accidentally.

You also never have to provide your private details, such as your name and credit card number. At least, never give this information to someone you don’t know and trust.

Avoid websites that have excessive ads. The freeware distribution sites come to mind again: they often have lots of ads that are made to look like download buttons. Many of them lead to browser hijackers like heasyradioplayer.com. A distracted person could very easily download an unwanted extension without meaning to.

Finally, update your antivirus program and make use of it. Update your browser, too, as well as your operating system. A competent antivirus tool with complete updates would be able to recognize potentially unwanted, dangerous, and poor-reputation programs and warn you about them.

Remove Heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker

How to remove heasyradioplayer Hijacker using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Search.heasyradioplayer.com 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 heasyradioplayer Hijacker . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Search.heasyradioplayer.com 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 heasyradioplayer Hijacker from macOS

Delete Search.heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker from your applications.

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

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Search.heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to heasyradioplayer Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Search.heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker 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 heasyradioplayer Hijacker. Click on the trash bin icon next to Search.heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker 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 heasyradioplayer Hijacker, 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 Search.heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker 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 heasyradioplayer 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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Search.heasyradioplayer.com 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.
  
• 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.

How to remove Search.heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to heasyradioplayer Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Search.heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker 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 Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving heasyradioplayer Hijacker from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Search.heasyradioplayer.com Hijacker. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to heasyradioplayer Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the 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.