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What is search.searchetg.com?

Easy Transit Guide is a rogue application that supposedly allows users to find driving directions, use maps, check public transport schedules, and use other similar features. These claims often trick users into believing that Easy Transit Guide is a legitimate application. Be aware, however, that this app is distributed using a deceptive marketing method called "bundling".

Furthermore, Easy Transit Guide stealthily modifies web browser options, generates intrusive ads, and continually records information relating to Internet browsing activity. For these reasons, Easy Transit Guide is categorized as a potentially unwanted program (PUP) and a browser hijacker.

Easy Transit Guide hijacks Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox, assigning the default search engine, homepage, and new tab URL options to search.searchetg.com. This behavior may not seem significant, however, Easy Transit Guide reassign options when users attempt to change them.

Thus, it becomes impossible to return browsers to their previous states and users are continually redirected to search.searchetg.com when opening a new browser tab or attempting to search via the URL bar.

In addition, Easy Transit Guide generates various intrusive online advertisements (pop-up, banner, etc.) that conceal underlying content, and might also lead to malicious websites. Even accidental clicks can result in high-risk adware or malware infections.

By causing unwanted browser redirects and displaying content-concealing ads, Easy Transit Guide significantly diminishes the web browsing experience. Another downside is information tracking. Easy Transit Guide continually records IP addresses, URLs visited, pages viewed, search queries, and other similar web browsing-related information.

This data might contain private details that developers of Easy Transit Guide (SaferBrowser) share with cooperating third party companies.

This information might be misused to generate revenue. Thus, the presence of an information-tracking app on your system can lead to serious privacy issues or even identity theft. We strongly advise you to uninstall the Easy Transit Guide browser hijacker immediately.

SaferBrowser has released a number of applications identical to Easy Transit Guide including Get Sports, Find Free Recipes, and The Weather Center - these are just some examples from many. Note that these applications offer different functionality, however, all have identical behavior.

SaferBrowser aims to generate as much revenue as possible and its products provide no significant value for regular users.

Applications such as Easy Transit Guide are designed only to cause unwanted browser redirects (to increase the traffic of certain sites), generate intrusive online ads (via the "Pay Per Click" advertising model), and collect private information (which is later sold to third parties).

How did search.searchetg.com install on my computer?

Easy Transit Guide has an official download website, however, developers also distribute this browser hijacker using a deceptive software marketing method called "bundling" - stealth installation of PUPs with regular software.

Bundled applications are hidden within the "Custom/Advanced" settings of the download or installation processes. Skipping these sections often leads to inadvertent installation of bogus programs.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

To prevent this situation, be cautious during the download and installation processes. Closely analyze each step using the "Custom" or "Advanced" settings. Furthermore, decline offers to download/install additional applications. The key to computer safety is caution.

Easy Transit Guide browser hijacker installer set-up:

Website promoting Easy Transit Guide browser hijacker:

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Quick menu:

• What is search.searchetg.com?
• STEP 1. Uninstall Easy Transit Guide application using Control Panel.
• STEP 2. Remove search.searchetg.com redirect from Internet Explorer.
• STEP 3. Remove Easy Transit Guide browser hijacker from Google Chrome.
• STEP 4. Remove search.searchetg.com homepage and default search engine from Mozilla Firefox.
• STEP 5. Remove search.searchetg.com redirect from Safari.
• STEP 6. Remove rogue plug-ins from Microsoft Edge.

Easy Transit Guide browser hijacker removal:

Windows 11 users:

Right-click on the Start icon, select Apps and Features. In the opened window search for the application you want to uninstall, after locating it, click on the three vertical dots and select Uninstall.

Windows 10 users:

Right-click in the lower left corner of the screen, in the Quick Access Menu select Control Panel. In the opened window choose Programs and Features.

Windows 7 users:

Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program.

macOS (OSX) users:

Click Finder, in the opened screen select Applications. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash.

In the uninstall programs window: look for any recently-installed suspicious applications (for example, "EasyTransitGuide"), select these entries and click "Uninstall" or "Remove".

After uninstalling the potentially unwanted programs that cause browser redirects to the search.searchetg.com website, scan your computer for any remaining unwanted components. To scan your computer, use recommended malware removal software.

Easy Transit Guide browser hijacker removal from Internet browsers:

Video showing how to remove browser redirects:

Remove malicious add-ons from Internet Explorer:

Click the "gear" icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select "Manage Add-ons". Look for any recently-installed suspicious extensions, select these entries and click "Remove".

Change your homepage:

Click the "gear" icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select "Internet Options", in the opened window, remove hxxp://search.searchetg.com and enter your preferred domain, which will open each time you launch Internet Explorer. You can also enter about: blank to open a blank page when you start Internet Explorer.

Change your default search engine:

Click the "gear" icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select "Manage Add-ons". In the opened window, select "Search Providers", set "Google", "Bing", or any other preferred search engine as your default and then remove "OneSearch".

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the easytransitguide browser hijacker, reset your Internet Explorer settings to default.

Windows XP users: Click Start, click Run, in the opened window type inetcpl.cpl In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 users: Click the Windows logo, in the start search box type inetcpl.cpl and click enter. In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows 8 users: Open Internet Explorer and click the gear icon. Select Internet Options.

In the opened window, select the Advanced tab.

Click the Reset button.

Confirm that you wish to reset Internet Explorer settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Tools" and click "Extensions". Locate "Easy Transit Guide", and other recently-installed suspicious add-ons, select these entries and click the trash can icon.

Change your homepage:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Settings". In the "On startup" section, click "set pages", hover your mouse over hxxp://search.searchetg.com and click the x symbol. Now, you can add your preferred website as your homepage.

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" section, click "Manage Search Engines...", remove "searchetg" and add or select your preferred domain.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the easytransitguide browser hijacker, reset your Google Chrome browser settings. Click the Chrome menu icon  (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click the Advanced… link.

After scrolling to the bottom of the screen, click the Reset (Restore settings to their original defaults) button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious plug-ins from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), select "Add-ons". Click "Extensions" and remove "Easy Transit Guide", and other recently-installed browser plug-ins.

Change your homepage:

To reset your homepage, click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), then select "Options", in the opened window, remove hxxp://search.searchetg.com 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 "I'll be careful, I promise!".
In the search filter at the top, type: "searchetg.com"
Right-click on the found preferences and select "Reset" to restore default values.

Optional method:

Computer users who have problems with easytransitguide browser hijacker removal can reset their Mozilla Firefox settings.

Open Mozilla Firefox, at the top right corner of the main window, click the Firefox menu, in the opened menu, click Help.

Select Troubleshooting Information.

In the opened window, click the Refresh Firefox button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Mozilla Firefox settings to default by clicking the Refresh Firefox button.

Remove malicious extensions from Safari:

Make sure your Safari browser is active and click Safari menu, then select Preferences...

In the preferences window select the Extensions tab. Look for any recently installed suspicious extensions and uninstall them.

In the preferences window select General tab and make sure that your homepage is set to a preferred URL, if its altered by a browser hijacker - change it.

In the preferences window select Search tab and make sure that your preferred Internet search engine is selected.

Optional method:

Make sure your Safari browser is active and click on Safari menu. From the drop down menu select Clear History and Website Data...

In the opened window select all history and click the Clear History button.

Remove malicious extensions from Microsoft Edge:

Click the Edge menu icon  (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge), select "Extensions". Locate any recently-installed suspicious browser add-ons, and remove them.

Change your homepage and new tab settings:

Click the Edge menu icon  (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge), select "Settings". In the "On startup" section look for the name of the browser hijacker and click "Disable".

Change your default Internet search engine:

To change your default search engine in Microsoft Edge: Click the Edge menu icon  (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge), select "Privacy and services", scroll to bottom of the page and select "Address bar". In the "Search engines used in address bar" section look for the name of the unwanted Internet search engine, when located click the "Disable" button near it. Alternatively you can click on "Manage search engines", in the opened menu look for unwanted Internet search engine. Click on the puzzle icon near it and select "Disable".

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the easytransitguide browser hijacker, reset your Microsoft Edge browser settings. Click the Edge menu icon  (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge) and select Settings.

In the opened settings menu select Reset settings.

Select Restore settings to their default values. In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Microsoft Edge settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

• If this did not help, follow these alternative instructions explaining how to reset the Microsoft Edge browser.

Summary:

A browser hijacker is a type of adware infection that modifies Internet browser settings by assigning the homepage and default Internet search engine settings to some other (unwanted) website URL. Commonly, this type of adware infiltrates operating systems through free software downloads. If your download is managed by a download client, ensure that you decline offers to install advertised toolbars or applications that seek to change your homepage and default Internet search engine settings.

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