MyEasyLotto New Tab - How to remove

MyEasyLotto browser extension is an application by Mindspark, a company known for releasing products that fall into the “potentially unwanted” category. The extension has some useful features but it also, unfortunately, earns the label of a browser hijacker for unnecessarily replacing the new tab page, tracking user data, and aggressively pushing certain search engines (like hp.myway.com).

The extension isn’t very malicious but it can hurt your browsing experience. Removing it is the only way to undo any of the changes that it makes, luckily, there are many other, better browser add-ons and websites. Just research them before installing to avoid other browser hijackers.

Problems with MyEasyLotto

There are a few problems with MyEasyLotto:

• MyEasyLotto hijacks the browser in intrusive ways to earn money from advertising to the user. This negatively affects their browsing experience.
• It uses bad ads to promote itself. Bad ads are correlated with dangerous websites and adware infections, so people who were exposed to MyEasyLotto ads are at risk of already being infected with other malware.
• MyEasyLotto sometimes bundles other, similar browser extensions during its installation. Bundling often results in unintentional installation and that is problematic.

How MyEasyLotto affects the browser

This extension is a new tab virus, a type of little program that replaces the home page, default search engine of the program in order to drive your traffic to partner websites.

Some people also experience seeing pop-up ads or unexpected, out-of-place banners on some websites, so MyEasyLotto can also be considered adware. The main way it delivers ads is by injecting them into the search results of MyWay, which is a search engine that uses Google’s results and “improves” them with some promoted content. To improve the ad targeting, it helps that MyEasyLotto can collect data about the user’s browsing history, search queries, locations, and some other data, and share it with advertisers.

Because of its developer’s poor reputation, making unnecessary changes to browser settings, and displaying ads, MyEasyLotto is found to be suspicious by most antivirus programs tested by VirusTotal. This shouldn’t be dismissed lightly.

However, not everything about MyEasyLotto is bad. It finds the results of the most famous lotteries and displays them in the new tab page, which does fit its description in its promotional material. The function could more easily be achieved with a pop-up panel rather than by hijacking the home page, though.

Advertisements for the extension

While MyEasyLotto is promoted by normal ads, it also uses notification spammers and redirection malware. Spend any time with your web browser being attacked by adware and you will quickly run into a few browser hijackers. A lot of sites which incorporate downloading files in some way also feature bad ads. Often, people are redirected to websites like MyEasyLotto’s page and at least a few careless people accidentally install this extension thanks to the giant, bright, vague “Continue” button.

MyEasyLotto is promoted by sites like install.notify-service.com, so it’s possible that your browser was already hijacked prior to the Lotto extension. An adware virus that’s infecting your computer works in a similar way to it but can affect all of your browsers.

Your computer might be clean and the websites that you frequent could be the ones infected. Aggressive, malicious ads aren’t always consented to by the sites that host them. In that case, you can only inform the site owner and hope that they will fix it.

How MyEasyLotto is installed

Ads are one way that MyEasyLotto is installed. The way its page is designed makes it easy for some to install it by accident or without enough information about what it does. A lot of users of various browser extensions say that they did not expect the plugin to hijack their home page.

One unfortunate thing that MyEasyLotto dies us bundle other extensions, such as Ask, TelevisionFanatic, or EasyPdfCombine. This is done by chaining multiple installations together. The user still has to click the button to install each add-on, but people who are unfamiliar with extensions might not notice anything suspicious.

MyEasyLotto can also be installed completely in the background, bundled with unrelated programs. People who download programs from freeware sites should be familiar with bundling — it’s when a program’s installer includes “optional offers”, which often end up with you accidentally installing some unfamiliar piece of software. This is very unethical because people end up installing programs that they did not agree to.

How to remove MyEasyLotto

If you want to remove the extension, you might need to perform a few steps:

• Manually remove MyEasyLotto from your browser, as well as other browser hijackers.
• Scan your device and, if needed, remove suspicious programs.
• Improve your device security and browsing habits moving forward so that infections don’t happen repeatedly

Not everyone who has MyEasyLotto has potentially unwanted programs installed, but it’s worth checking. Otherwise, you might end up removing the hijackers only for them to return a few days later.

Scan your device with Spyhunter (Windows), Combo-Cleaner (Mac OS), Malwarebytes, or another program that can detect viruses and PUPs.

Moving forward, it’s important to be a bit more careful when browsing sites that show aggressive ads. Whenever you install a free program downloaded from an unreliable site, review your installed programs to check for unfamiliar additions. Finally, regularly scan your computer with an up-to-date antivirus tool.

Automatic Malware removal tools

How to remove MyEasyLotto Redirect using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like MyEasyLotto New Tab 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 MyEasyLotto Redirect . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make MyEasyLotto New Tab 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 MyEasyLotto Redirect from macOS

Delete MyEasyLotto New Tab from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the MyEasyLotto Redirect 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 MyEasyLotto New Tab 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 MyEasyLotto Redirect, 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 MyEasyLotto New Tab 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 MyEasyLotto Redirect. Click on the trash bin icon next to MyEasyLotto New Tab 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 MyEasyLotto Redirect, 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 MyEasyLotto New Tab 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 MyEasyLotto Redirect 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 MyEasyLotto New Tab, 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 MyEasyLotto New Tab 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 MyEasyLotto Redirect. Click on the "Remove" icon next to MyEasyLotto New Tab 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 MyEasyLotto Redirect from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the MyEasyLotto New Tab. 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 MyEasyLotto Redirect, 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.