EasyShopper Adware (Mac)

What is EasyShopper?

EasyShopper is a deceptive application identical to LiveShoppers. By falsely claiming to improve the online shopping experience, EasyShopper often tricks users into believing that it is a legitimate application. In fact, EasyShopper often infiltrates systems without users’ permission.

Furthermore, this application continually records various information relating to users' web browsing activity and displays intrusive online advertisements. For these reasons, EasyShopper is classed as a potentially unwanted program (PUP) and adware.

The advertisements generated by EasyShopper include pop-up, banner, and coupon ads. These are displayed using a 'virtual layer' - a tool that enables placement of third party graphical content on any site visited. None originate from users' visited websites, thus, concealing underlying content and significantly diminishing the web browsing experience.

Furthermore, ads by EasyShopper might lead to malicious websites containing infectious content - clicking them risks further adware or malware infections. Be aware also that EasyShopper continually records various data relating to users' web browsing activity including IP addresses, websites visited, pages viewed, search queries entered into search engines, etc.

This information may seem insignificant, however, some details might be personally identifiable - developers of EasyShopper share these details with various third parties.

Some of this recorded information will be misused to generate revenue. Thus, the presence of an information-tracking app such as EasyShopper on your system can lead to serious privacy issues or even identity theft. We strongly recommend that you uninstall this adware immediately.

Research shows that adware-type applications are often very similar. All claim to provide a number of 'valuable functions' to significantly improve the Internet browsing experience. These claims are merely attempts to trick users to install. In fact, adware simply generates revenue for the developers.

Rather than enabling any of the functions promised, EasyShopper, and other similar apps, generate intrusive online advertisements (using the 'Pay Per Click’ [PPC] advertising model) and collect personally identifiable information (which is later shared with third parties to generate revenue).

How did EasyShopper install on my computer?

This application has an official download website, however, it is also promoted using a dubious software marketing method called 'bundling' and, thus, many users install EasyShopper inadvertently. Bundling is essentially stealth installation of potentially unwanted programs with regular software.

Developers conceal details regarding installation of third party apps within the 'Custom' or 'Advanced' section of download/installation sections. Rushing and skipping these procedures often leads to inadvertent installation of bogus applications such as EasyShopper.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

There are two main steps you should take to prevent this situation. Firstly, analyze each step of the download/installation processes using the 'Custom' or 'Advanced' settings. Secondly, all offers to download/install additional programs should be declined, and third party apps already included should be cancelled.

Screenshot of EasyShopper website FAQ (frequently asked questions) page:

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Quick menu:

• What is EasyShopper?
• STEP 1. Remove EasyShopper related files and folders from OSX.
• STEP 2. Remove EasyShopper ads from Safari.
• STEP 3. Remove EasyShopper adware from Google Chrome.
• STEP 4. Remove EasyShopper ads from Mozilla Firefox.

Video showing how to remove adware and browser hijackers from a Mac computer:

EasyShopper adware removal:

Remove EasyShopper-related potentially unwanted applications from your "Applications" folder:

Click the Finder icon. In the Finder window, select “Applications”. In the applications folder, look for “MPlayerX”,“NicePlayer”, or other suspicious applications and drag them to the Trash. After removing the potentially unwanted application(s) that cause online ads, scan your Mac for any remaining unwanted components.

Remove browser hijacker-related files and folders

Click the Finder icon from the menu bar. Choose Go, and click Go to Folder...

Check for browser hijacker generated files in the /Library/LaunchAgents/ folder:

In the Go to Folder... bar, type: /Library/LaunchAgents/

In the "LaunchAgents" folder, look for any recently-added suspicious files and move them to the Trash. Examples of files generated by browser hijackers - "installmac.AppRemoval.plist", "myppes.download.plist", "mykotlerino.ltvbit.plist", "kuklorest.update.plist", etc. Browser hijacker commonly installs several files with the exact same string.

Check for browser hijacker generated files in the ~/Library/Application Support/ folder:

In the Go to Folder... bar, type: ~/Library/Application Support/

In the "Application Support" folder, look for any recently-added suspicious folders. For example, "MplayerX" or "NicePlayer", and move these folders to the Trash.

Check for browser hijacker generated files in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ folder:

In the Go to Folder... bar, type: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

In the "LaunchAgents" folder, look for any recently-added suspicious files and move them to the Trash. Examples of files generated by browser hijackers - "installmac.AppRemoval.plist", "myppes.download.plist", "mykotlerino.ltvbit.plist", "kuklorest.update.plist", etc. Browser hijacker commonly installs several files with the exact same string.

Check for browser hijacker generated files in the /Library/LaunchDaemons/ folder:

In the "Go to Folder..." bar, type: /Library/LaunchDaemons/

In the "LaunchDaemons" folder, look for recently-added suspicious files. For example "com.aoudad.net-preferences.plist", "com.myppes.net-preferences.plist", "com.kuklorest.net-preferences.plist", "com.avickUpd.plist", etc., and move them to the Trash.

Scan your Mac with Combo Cleaner:

If you have followed all the steps correctly, your Mac should be clean of infections. To ensure your system is not infected, run a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus. Download it HERE. After downloading the file, double click combocleaner.dmg installer. In the opened window, drag and drop the Combo Cleaner icon on top of the Applications icon. Now open your launchpad and click on the Combo Cleaner icon. Wait until Combo Cleaner updates its virus definition database and click the "Start Combo Scan" button.

Combo Cleaner will scan your Mac for malware infections. If the antivirus scan displays "no threats found" - this means that you can continue with the removal guide; otherwise, it's recommended to remove any found infections before continuing.

After removing files and folders generated by the browser hijackers, continue to remove rogue extensions from your Internet browsers.

Remove browser hijackers from Internet browsers

Remove Safari browser hijackers:

Open the Safari browser, from the menu bar, select "Safari" and click "Preferences...".

In the preferences window, select "Extensions" and look for any recently-installed suspicious extensions. When located, click the "Uninstall" button next to it/them. Note that you can safely uninstall all extensions from your Safari browser - none are crucial for regular browser operation.

Change your homepage:

In the "Preferences" window, select the "General" tab. To set your homepage, type the preferred website URL (for example: www.google.com) in the Homepage field. You can also click the "Set to Current Page" button if you wish to set your homepage to the website you are currently visiting.

Change your default search engine:

In the "Preferences" window, select the "Search" tab. Here you will find a drop-down menu labeled "Search engine:" Simply select your preferred search engine from the drop-down list.

• If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Safari.

Remove Google Chrome browser hijackers:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "More Tools" and click "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious extensions, select these entries and click "Remove".

Change your homepage

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select "Settings". In the "On startup" section, disable the malicious extension (if present), look for a browser hijacker URL below the "Open a specific or set of pages" option. If present, click on the three vertical dots icon and select "Remove".

Change your default search engine:

To change your default search engine in Google Chrome: Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Settings", in the "Search engine" section, click "Manage search engines...", in the opened list look for a browser hijacker URL, when located click the three vertical dots near this URL and select "Delete".

• If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Google Chrome.

Remove malicious extensions from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window) and select "Add-ons and themes". Click "Extensions", in the opened window locate all recently-installed suspicious extensions, click on the three dots and then click "Remove".

Change your homepage

To reset your homepage, click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), then select "Settings", in the opened window disable malicious extension (if present), remove the browser hijacker URL and enter your preferred domain, which will open each time you start Mozilla Firefox.

Change your default search engine:

In the URL address bar, type "about:config" and press Enter. Click "Accept the Risk and Continue".

In the search filter at the top, type: "extensionControlled". Set both results to "false" by either double-clicking each entry or clicking the button.

• If you continue to have problems with browser redirects and unwanted advertisements - Reset Mozilla Firefox.

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