How to remove Easy News Now (easynewsnow.com)

What is Easy News Now

As developers state, Easy News Now is a handy tool, that delivers geo-targeted news in form of browser notifications, ads, pop-ups and banners by means of extension. At first glance, Easy News Now is a helpful browser add-on that offers interesting content instantly on the desktop. Although, a recent study concluded that it secretly gathers user’s data like IP-addresses, geolocations, and other web-related information that therefore classifies it as a browser hijacker. All of these sensitive data can be transferred to extortionists for making a profit. Also, once installed, Easy News Now alters your homepage by assigning a new easynewsnow.com website. The presence of Easy News Now may lead to severe data loss and has to be removed from your computer.

How Easy News Now infected your computer

Easy News Now is a malicious browser add-on that can be distributed via a deceptive marketing tool called bundling. Bundling implies promoting third-parties software alongside regular programs. Potentially Unwanted Applications are often included in installation set-ups and presented as additional offers. Those offers are frequently hidden in “Custom” or “Advanced” sections. In other words, information about additionally included apps is not being disclosed properly. Normally, people unintentionally agree with offers to install unwanted applications leaving the steps unchecked. Besides that, PUAs can be downloaded by intentionally clicking on dubious advertisements around the web that therefore redirect innocent people to malicious websites that continuously execute installation scripts to infect your system. Thus, it is super vital to stay focused and aware while downloading or surfing the web. However, if you fell into the claws of Easy News Now, we are here to help you uninstall it by following the underneath instructions.

Remove Easy News Now manually for free

Here is a manual step-by-step tutorial for full Easy News Now removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of the Easy News Now installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Disable push notifications from easynewsnow.com in browsers

Remove easynewsnow.com from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Google Chrome

1. Go to Google Chrome settings, by clicking 3-dots icon in the top-right corner and choosing Settings.
2. On a Mac you can also go to Chrome and choose Preferences.
3. Under opened Privacy and security tab, choose Content settings.
4. Click on Notifications menu (with the bell icon).
5. Set up preferred overall settings for push notifications and click Manage exceptions… button.
6. Find easynewsnow.com in the list and click cross icon to remove it. Click Done button to confirm the action.

Remove easynewsnow.com from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Mozilla Firefox

1. Go to Mozilla Firefox options, by clicking 3-bars icon in the top-right corner and choosing Options.
2. Choose Content tab on the left side.
3. Under Notifications, set up preferred overall settings for push-notifications and click Choose… button.
4. Find easynewsnow.com in the list and click Remove site to remove it.
5. Click Save Changes button to confirm the action.

Remove easynewsnow.com from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Safari

1. Open Safari, and in the top menu click Safari, choose Preferences.
2. In the Preferences window, click on Websites tab.
3. On the left side, choose Notifications. You will see the list of websites and their settings for showing notifications.
4. Find easynewsnow.com in the list and click Remove button.

Remove easynewsnow.com from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Android (Chrome)

1. Open Google Chrome app on Android, and tap on three dots to open main menu.
2. In the drop-down menu choose Settings, scroll down and under Advanced section tap on Site Settings.
3. In the Site Settings menu tap on Notifications.
4. In the Allowed list of websites allowed to show notifications find easynewsnow.com, tap on it and in the bottom of the window tap on Clean & Reset button.
5. Confirm your action by tapping on Clean & Reset again in opened dialog box.

Remove easynewsnow.com from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Microsoft Edge

1. Open Microsoft Edge, and click on the three-dots menu, in the top-right corner.
2. In the drop-down menu choose Settings, and in the left part click Advanced.
3. Under Website permissions section, click Manage permissions button.
4. Find easynewsnow.com in the list and click on the cross sign to remove the setting and disable its notifications.

Note: Easy News Now can be installed as Google Chrome extension as Administrator (you may see Installed by enterprise policy inscription near it), and this will not allow removal. Therefore, before starting removal process, perform these actions:

1. Start the Command Prompt by clicking the Start menu button and typing command prompt (or just searching for “command prompt” in Windows 10 search field). Right click on the Command Prompt result and choose Run as Administrator.



2. Type in and execute the following commands:

   
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
gpupdate /force

Remove Easy News Now from Control Panel

To start removing Easy News Now you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Easy News Now” or “easynewsnow.com”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Mac.

Remove Easy News Now from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. Easy News Now might have an Uninstaller.
3. Otherwise, drag Easy News Now from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Remove Easy News Now from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Easy News Now or other suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Easy News Now from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Easy News Now or other suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove Easy News Now from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Easy News Now or other suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove Easy News Now from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Easy News Now from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Easy News Now or other suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate Easy News Now or other suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Easy News Now

In some cases, Easy News Now won’t uninstall and gives you the message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Easy News Now. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Easy News Now folder and files. This happens because the process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case, I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Easy News Now in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove Easy News Now or other suspicious program

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

and for Mac:

If you can’t uninstall Easy News Now using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of Easy News Now. Follow instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag Easy News Now from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with Easy News Now.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Easy News Now from Control Panel often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove the Easy News Now extension from your browsers manually.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find Easy News Now extensions.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Easy News Now or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Choose Easy News Now or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.
5. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Easy News Now from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling the program from Control Panel. To disable Easy News Now, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Easy News Now or other suspicious extensions.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Easy News Now does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find Easy News Now or other suspicious extensions.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Easy News Now installs a search engine (easynewsnow.com), that hijacks your browsers. Here is the instruction to reset your browser’s homepage, new tab, and search engine to default values.

Reset Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Go to the Privacy section of Safari’s preferences.
3. Click Remove All Website Data button.
4. In opened window click Remove Now button to remove data stored by websites in Safari.
5. Go to the Advanced section of Safari’s preferences.
6. Click the Show Develop menu in menu bar option.
7. In the menu click Develop and select Empty Caches from this menu.
8. Again, go to Safari menu and choose Clear History….
9. Choose to clear all history and click Clear History button.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings.
3. Scroll down and find Show advanced settings link.
4. Click on it and scroll down to the bottom again.
5. Click Reset browser settings button and click Reset to confirm.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Reset Firefox… button.
4. Click Reset Firefox to confirm.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
4. Click Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

1. Close Opera and open command prompt from the start menu.
2. Type following command del %AppData%\Opera\Opera\operaprefs.ini
3. Start Opera.

For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extensions with bad ratings including related to Easy News Now. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Cleaning browsers shortcuts

You can clean your browser shortcuts manually right-clicking on your browser icon, choosing “Properties” and removing hijacker address from “Target” field (leave just the path to your browser). However it is easier to use free Shortcut Cleaner from BleepingComputer. Download it here – its FREE:

Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs like Easy News Now may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of the anti-malware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-virus programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats like Easy News Now.