Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups - How to remove

Install.score-stars.com is a pop-up attacking Google Chrome browser with the suggestion to install Score Stars extension. It is advertised as a helpful service to keep you updated about sport events in your area. However, the extension additionally hijacks your browser home page, default search engine, and new tab URL settings. Users are not happy with these amendments, so they logically want to get rid of Score Stars.

The importance of removing the Score Stars extension from Google Chrome is also confirmed by the detection of its associated website as potentially unsafe according to the analysis made by several security blogs. You probably wonder why exactly it is so. Well, the page install.score-stars.com looks pretty decent and the service to access exclusive sport updates through the extension may be beneficial for some people. Still, the number of negative effects on your browser by ScoreStarts exceeds all its positive features.

What’s wrong with the Score Stars extension

Once installed and enabled, Score Starts introduces several changes into the way your browser functions. Instead of Google as your default home page and search engine you now notice score-stars.com page. As for your search queries, they will be permanently redirected through Yahoo, Bing, or some other three-party search engine. Both Yahoo and Bing are genuine companies and their search services may be the preference of a certain group of people. However, Score Starts extension literally forces you to surf the web through Yahoo or Bing without taking your opinion into consideration. As soon as the extension is enabled, it will control all your browser settings. You will not be able to manually change your start page back to google.com or any other page of your choice. Similarly, attempting to change your default search engine back to Google Search will not be successful until you finally remove Score Stars.

These are some other consequences that users experience with the extension enabled:

• displaying web push notifications and forwarding your browser to third-party websites;
• showing ads not related to the websites you visit;
• unexpected browser redirections to random websites;
• tracking your browsing activities.

As long as the Score Stars extension is enabled you can never have confidence that your browsing is secure. You may be regularly brought to the number of unreliable resources promoting PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), fictitious alerts reporting the need to implement suspicious browser or software updates, or the websites related to an online scam. Finally, all your search queries will be under the constant analysis by means of the spying functions given to the extension. It will keep records of all the websites you visit, your browsing habits, but the worst part is that this personal information may be granted to third parties in an absolutely illegal way.

How to remove install.score-stars.com pop-ups

Score Stars extension can be removed by simply accessing the settings of Google Chrome in the following sequence:

• in Google Chrome, click on the button in the form of three vertical dots, then click on “More Tools”;
• choose “Extensions”;
• disable and remove Score Stars and other third-party add-ons.

Blocking install.score-stars.com pop-ups is another challenge. It is quite unlikely that you made a personal decision to visit the page promoting the extension. When install.score-stars.com pop-ups are massive this means that your computer is infected by some unwanted software controlling your browser and resulting in unexpected browser redirections to random websites. We recommend you to scan your system with the Spyhunter to identify hidden malware that may still remain and cause other similar infections to penetrate into your workstation.

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How to remove score-stars Pop-ups using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to score-stars Pop-ups . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove score-stars Pop-ups from macOS

Delete Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the score-stars Pop-ups app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to score-stars Pop-ups, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to score-stars Pop-ups. Click on the trash bin icon next to Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to score-stars Pop-ups, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything score-stars Pop-ups related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to score-stars Pop-ups. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving score-stars Pop-ups from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Install.score-stars.com Pop-ups. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to score-stars Pop-ups, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari.
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.