Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Removal of Scour as a toolbar and bad redirect habit

Scour (Scour.com), also known as Scour toolbar, is most frequently observed at the following IP: 63.209.69.107. Alternate IP addresses are in place so that is not a limiting restriction that the site is hosted with the above address only.
The issue is classified as yet another Google redirect that features its own virtual search engine that provides results returned simultaneously by several search tools. That is, the virtual engine does not search the web itself and makes use of the facilities of other providers.
Removal of Scour toolbar is on demand as the program is disliked by many users for the following two reasons:
- Google loading and/or quires addressed to this and other prevailing web-search facilities resolve into appearance of the unwanted alternative;
- toolbar is added to favorite browsers, which is either not listed in the popup menu so that it cannot be instantly removed, or is available for extermination only for the current page view.
Get rid of Scour toolbar and/or redirect habits of your browser which it has acquired thanks to specialized virus, which is subject to extermination with the free scanner available here

Scour.com hijacker:




Scour.com and related toolbar manual removal guide:

Delete infected files:
C:\Program Files\scourtoolbar\install.ico
C:\Program Files\scourtoolbar\scourtoolbar.dll
C:\Program Files\scourtoolbar\toolbar.ini
C:\Program Files\scourtoolbar\uninstall.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\SCOURTOOLBAR[1].EXE-1BE5D268.pf
Delete infected registry values:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\scourtoolbar.SCOURTOOLBAR
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Software\scourtoolbar
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SCOURTOOLBAR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\scourtoolbar.SCOURTOOLBAR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\scourtoolbar
Automated removal solution:


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