Socialscour.com Redirects - How to remove

Socialscour.com is a custom search engine. It is not dangerous, but it’s also quite unhelpful. If you find your browser visiting this site without your permission, it’s worth checking if there are adware infections or any potentially unwanted programs on your device.

About Socialscour.com:

Classification	Adware, potentially unwanted program.
Problems with Socialscour.com	It lacks useful features, it may appear without permission.
How to avoid hijackers	Block malicious sites, recognize misleading ads, use antivirus tools to stop bundlers.
How to stop redirects to Socialscour.com	Find malware (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.) and, if needed, delete it, review your browser settings and installed add-ons.

Is Socialscour.com safe?

Socialscour.com by Elevated Media Inc is a custom search engine. It is very similar to Guardengine.com – both let you search the web, and the search results and ads that these two sites display are identical. Options.xyz, Answers.guide, and a few other sites are also related to Socialscour.com.

These sites lack features that would make them attractive to users. Socialscour.com has no filters or tools, no rich results. What it does have is a lot of ads, featured results, and related searches.

Rather than have loyal users, Socialscour.com seems to get most of its traffic from ads on other sites, including other custom search engines.

These other custom search engines include Hidemyhistory.co and Informationvine.com – sites that spread with browser hijackers and appear unwanted in people’s browsers.

Socialscour.com is not a dangerous site. It won’t infect your computer with malware and it won’t steal your passwords.

However, having Socialscour.com appear in your browser unexpectedly can feel like being harassed by a malware infection. Unwanted sites and programs that don’t do anything bad but that can infiltrate your computer without your permission are called potentially unwanted programs.

How to avoid search hijackers?

The Socialscour.com site doesn’t seem to be related to any browser hijackers. But it’s tangentially related to other browser hijackers, so it’s relevant to talk about how you can avoid these annoying extensions.

In my experience, the most common way that search-hijacking browser extensions spread is with the help of misleading ads. These can be fake download buttons and links. I also see misleading “Continue” pages that inject themselves into unrelated flows – for instance, pages that imply that you must install a certain extension if you want to watch a movie.

If you encounter malicious ads often, then consider installing an ad blocker. Ad blockers can block obnoxious ads. Incidentally, they also block many malicious pop-ups and redirects. (Just be careful of fake ad blockers.)

Other times, malicious add-ons are included in the installers of free programs. Tools like InstallCore allow for free programs to show ads in their installers. Unfortunately, the ads are often presented in a dishonest way. This leads people to install unwanted programs without meaning to.

If you often download programs from download sites, then it’s good to scan their installers before running them. Bundlers are flagged by the more sensitive/proactive anti-malware programs, like Malwarebytes.

How to stop redirects to Socialscour.com

There are a few things that could be causing your browser to open Socialscour.com and other potentially unwanted sites:

• redirects on websites that you visit regularly,
• malicious browser extensions,
• adware infections on your computer,
• misconfigured search engine settings.

Scan your computer with an anti-malware app (Spyhunter for PC, Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.) to find malware and some potentially unwanted programs.

Although Socialscour.com is not dangerous, in my experience, sites like it spread with adware and hijacker infections that are dangerous. Not always, but often enough. So, it’s important to check your device for malware.

At the same time, it’s possible that removing malware won’t stop the Socialscour.com redirects. You could block the site, but that would be a band-aid solution.

Check your browser settings and extensions as described in the section below. Carefully review the add-ons that you have installed. Sometimes, search redirects are caused by otherwise good and functional extensions.

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Manual removal instructions

How to remove Socialscour.com Redirects using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Socialscour.com Redirects 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 Socialscour.com Redirects . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Socialscour.com Redirects 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 Socialscour.com Redirects from macOS

Delete Socialscour.com Redirects from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Socialscour.com Redirects 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.

TopHow To remove Socialscour.com Redirects from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Socialscour.com Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser 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.

How To remove Socialscour.com Redirects from Firefox:Top

• 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 Socialscour.com Redirects 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.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Socialscour.com Redirects, 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.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Socialscour.com Redirects from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Socialscour.com Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• 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.

How to remove Socialscour.com Redirects from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Socialscour.com Redirects and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Socialscour.com Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on 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.