Search.searcheasysta.com Removal Guide

Users who find Search.searcheasysta.com set as their homepage on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox should know that they have encountered a browser hijacker infection. Browser hijackers belonging to Polarity Technologies Ltd slither onto users’ computers and then apply changes so that a new page would be launched for users each time they open their web browsers. Search.searcheasysta.com does not appear on browsers to improve the web searching experience or help users to find the information on the web quicker. It is more likely that its only purpose is to generate revenue for its author by displaying the modified search results. Users help the developer get more money by clicking on these search results. Remove the untrustworthy search tool so that you would no longer see those modified search results and thus have no chance of clicking on them. Users should get rid of them as soon as possible not only to be able to perform web searches more effectively, but also to prevent all kinds of associated security and privacy-related problems from emerging.

Search.searcheasysta.com has an interface of an ordinary search tool. It has all the features of a legitimate search provider: there is a search box in the middle which opens a Yahoo! search results page and, on top of that, a number of quick-access buttons making it possible to open certain websites with the click of a button are available on its main page. Unfortunately, it has a drawback which outweighs its benefits. Research carried out by specialists recently has shown that this dubious search tool displays modified search results for users, as we have already told you in the first paragraph. These search results do not differ much from those decent ones shown by Yahoo! if we take into account only their appearance, but some users still manage to quickly find out that they cannot be trusted fully. Usually, they notice that they take them to pages which do not have any useful information. Researchers encourage users not to trust them either because, despite the fact that they look harmless at first sight, they might take users to pages promoting undesirable software. Some of these pages might record sensitive information too, which immediately makes them untrustworthy search providers.

Researchers say that Search.searcheasysta.com might also become a threat to a user’s online privacy. It has become clear after reading its Privacy Policy document that it is also going to record personally identifiable information next to various details about the system and users’ online habits. Find an excerpt from this document provided below:

BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO GRANT POLARITY PERMISSION TO COLLECT YOUR URLS AND SEARCH DATA, INCLUDING SEARCH QUERIES THAT MAY CONTAIN PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION, SHARE THEM WITH THIRD PARTIES, AND USE SEARCH-RELATED COOKIES.

What it basically tells users is that search queries which contain personal information will be recorded too, so if you enter a search query containing personal details in the search box of Search.searcheasysta.com, it will end up in the hands of Polarity Technologies Ltd and third parties. This information might tell a lot about you, so make sure it does not reach bad people. Personal information will no longer be recorded if you get rid of Search.searcheasysta.com, so go to erase it as soon as possible.

Search.searcheasysta.com is not so popular that users would set it on their browsers willingly. Also, it does not have an official website, which suggests that it is spread through bundled malicious installers like other browser hijackers are. In most cases, these threats do not travel alone. They tend to come with free software and even other untrustworthy programs. As a consequence, you should not forget to find and erase third-party untrustworthy programs which have entered your PC in a malicious software bundle.

Go to delete Search.searcheasysta.com as soon as possible because it will not do anything good to you. More likely, its presence will cause a number of problems for you. Therefore, it should be erased as soon as possible. You can erase it either manually or automatically. The latter removal method is recommended for those users who have never deleted a malicious application before or just do not have enough knowledge about computers. Users who decide to erase an undesirable search tool manually should use our manual removal guide, whereas others, i.e. those who employ the automatic removal method, should click on the Download button below, download a tool, and then launch it.

Remove Search.searcheasysta.com manually

Internet Explorer

1. Open the Registry Editor (you only need to tap Win+R and enter regedit).
2. Open HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
3. Right-click on the Start Page value and select Modify.
4. Delete its Value data field completely.
5. Move to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{0633EE93-D776-472f-A0FF-E1416B8B2E3A}.
6. Do the same to the following values, i.e. clear their Value data fields:

• FaviconURL
• FaviconURLFallback
• TopResultURL
• URL

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open the Windows Explorer (press Win+E).
2. Open %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles.
3. Locate a folder having the prefs.js file.
4. Right-click on this file, select Open with from the menu, and then choose Notepad.
5. Delete user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http:// Search.searcheasysta.com"); from the insides of this file.

Google Chrome

1. Launch the Windows Explorer (Win+E).
2. Type %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default in the address bar and press Enter.
3. Locate Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data files there.
4. Delete them all one by one.