Windows Problems Help Center : How to Get Rid of bts.scour.com Completely?

Your computer is infected with bts.scour.com? Your computer acts weirdly cased by bts.scour.com? Don’t know how to get rid of bts.scour.com? No worries, this post will be helpful for you to remove bts.scour.com completely.

What is bts.scour.com?

bts.scour.com is classified as a hazardous browser hijacker that can attack random systems and web browsers all of a sudden. How it can come to the computer? What damage it may arouse? What is the most effective way to remove it from the computer?

Know More About bts.scour.com

Type: Browser Hijacker \ Redirect Virus

Alert level: Severe

Targeted Browsers：Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and so on.

Transmission Modes

1. Corrupt files shared via P2P network.
2. Free resources like applications, drivers, games downloaded from the Internet.
3. Email attachments, spam emails, unknown links, and etc.
4. Internet pop ups or corrupt web sites.
5. Some Trojan horses.

Weird Symptoms

1) bts.scour.com can come to the computer with surprise attack.
2) bts.scour.com will be able to modify registry values for running automatically whenever Windows are started.
3) bts.scour.com can active itself when you open web pages by changing some of default search engine settings.
4) bts.scour.com will control your web browser/browsers.
5) bts.scour.com won’t be stopped by installing another web browser.
6) bts.scour.com will replace the homepage.
7) bts.scour.com will arouse redirections when you are doing some web searches.
8) bts.scour.com may arouse tons of irritating pop ups.
9) bts.scour.com may make the computer freeze frequently.
10) bts.scour.com will slow down computer performance significantly.
11) bts.scour.com may monitor all your online activities.
12) bts.scour.com may help cyber hackers to trace and steal private information stored on the computer.

The Most Effective Way to Remove bts.scour.com

Step1. Disable suspicious startup items.

Windows XP:
Step: Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items that related to bts.scour.com:

Step2. Remove add-ons:
Internet Explorer:
1) Go to Tools -> ‘Manage Add-ons’;
2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ -> choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;
3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;
4) Go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Internet Options’; select ‘General tab’ and click website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save changes.
Google Chrome
1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings’;
2) Choose ‘Basic Options’;
3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage Search Engines…’ button;
4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select ‘Search Result’ from the list to remove it by clicking the ‘X’ mark.
Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engine…’;
2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;
3) Go to ‘Tools’ -> “Options”. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under ‘General tab;
Step3. Show hidden files
step: a) open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;

b) under View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK;

c) click on the “Start” menu and then click on the “Search programs and files” box, find out and delete all associated files of bts.scour.com:

%UserProfile%\[random].exe
%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\Connection Wizard\[random]
%Windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framwork\[random].exe
%System%[random].exe

Step4. Use CTRL+ALT+DEL to open Windows Task Manager and stop all bts.scour.com processes.
Step5. Delete all related registry values of bts.scour.com.
step: Hold down the Windows key on your keyboard and press the "R" button. Type in "regedit" and hit "Enter" to gain access to the Registry Editor.

Registry values:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\[random]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run\[random]
HKEY_USERS\.DEFUALT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\[random]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ControlSet001\Services\svflooje\Enum\[random]

Step6. Delete bts.scour.com by installing Anti-Malware program SpyHunter

1) Click the icon below to download Spyhunter.

2) Install Spyhunter Step by Step:

3) Start a full and quick scan with SpyHunter .

4) Remove detected threats.

Note
You may meet with lots of difficulties even make the issue worse than before if you don't have sufficient manual removal skills. To ensure that you can remove bts.scour.com completely and safely, you are advised to install Anti-Malware program SpyHunter. It is easy, efficient and automatic. What’s more, it won’t damage your computer. It serves not only a role of removing the malware program, but also a role of protecting your computer from threats in the future.

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