If you are frequently facing scour.com redirect issue while surfing web, this could be due to a browser hijacking malware. scour.com redirector is a malicious virus that enters into a computer very secretly. After getting into a system, it will modify browser settings like DNS and proxy etc. Hence, it will be able to hijack the browser and redirect user to scour.com website when user performs a query on Google, Yahoo or Bing. This virus can affect Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer as well.
You might be thinking how come this bug got into your computer. The answer is, scour.com redirect malware may get into your machine attached with untrusted downloads. It may also infect PCs that visit certain malicious websites that host the malware. Most of times it is found in toolbars of bad websites. The worst thing about these toolbars is that you cannot uninstall them because they don`t have an uninstall option. The only way to remove such creepy viruses like scour.com redirect and its annoying toolbar is to use a legitimate anti-malware or follow the manual removal steps to delete its components.
Please keep in your mind!
scour.com virus is not just an irritating thing that redirects you to wrong pages. But it is harmful as it may steal your private info and pass the data to malware creators. So it is recommended to remove scour.com from infected system as soon as possible.
How to remove scour.com redirect manually:
Stop Scour.com redirect processes:
%Program Files%\scourtoolbar\uninstall.exe
Remove Scour.com redirect Registry Entries:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\scourtoolbar.SCOURTOOLBAR
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Software\scourtoolbar
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SCOURTOOLBAR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\scourtoolbar
Delete Scour.com redirect files:
%Program Files%\scourtoolbar\install.ico
..\scourtoolbar.dll
..\toolbar.ini
..\uninstall.exe
%WINDOWS%\Prefetch\SCOURTOOLBAR[1].EXE-1BE5D268.pf
Auto Removal
To remove this virus Automatically, We suggest following tools:
Malware Bytes Anti-Malware (Download)
HitMan Pro Anti-Malware (Download)
