Sports Score hijacker - How to remove

Are you a sports fanatic that wants to have sports updates always on screen and happened to come across and get a browser plugin Sports Score which promises all-in-one features? Or on the contrary, have you noticed this new extension on your Chrome, even though you have nothing in common with any of the branches of sports? If that sounds familiar, you may have fallen for the Sports Score browser hijacker, which has more than games results to share.

When there is such a plethora of extensions to choose from in the market and crooks are improving their deceitful tricks, it becomes hard to tell the difference which ones are good and which ones need to be avoided at all costs, no matter the Chromes tries to filter and end malware in its plugin web store. Sports score is that extension that has not yet been removed, because of the cunning creators’ techniques to appear legitimate, while still causing harm. If you got Sports score hijacker hoping to get what it promised, or it surprised you by appearing unexpectedly, then our will show you why exactly it should no longer stay on your Chrome, how did it get on your PC/Mac and how to remove it once and for all.

What is Sports Score hijacker

Sports Score is a questionable extension for Chrome that ensures to report to its users about the most recent match results of various kinds of games, whether its basketball, baseball, football, soccer and etc. Also, it wouldn’t be a lie to say that this application is a browser hijacker, like EasyConvert, Search.hloginnow.net, Search.easyspeedtestaccess.com, which during the installation uses malicious script codes to modify the default settings of the browser, such as homepage (to feed.getsportscore.com), search engine, and the new tabs.

Of course, to stay untouched and legally not responsible for the later caused damage, Sports Score virus mentions the malevolent actions right before getting added to the victim’s Chrome: “Sports Score can read and change all your data on the websites you visit, read and change your browsing history, change your search settings to feed.getsportscore.com and manage your apps, extensions, and themes”. (How to read and understand Privacy Policy)

Even though being active since 2016, Sports Score hijacker is still relevant and infects tons of users, changing their search engine to Yahoo search, altering the visible online content and injecting many Contextual ads which come from dubious sponsors, and on top of everything tracking all data that goes through compromised browsers, including credit card info, online banking details, name, age, gender, credentials, visited pages, bought items, search queries and etc. By continuing using Sports Score users can very easily become victims and get their online identity stolen or be controlled by marketing corporations psychologically to buy certain products/services, by receiving very targeted ads based on statistical browsing history analysis.

Sports Score developers earn not only from delivering these Untrustworthy ads and bringing traffic to certain paying websites but also from selling your data to other third-parties. Although minimal tracking is expected from almost every application, this browser hijacker abuses its authorization. Not to mention all the struggles and inconvenience that users will have to go through when surfing online and having to concisely select which displayed links are just ads and which ones give real information.

Because of the above-mentioned reasons and shady dissemination techniques we highly encourage our readers to remove Sports Score virus from their Chrome browser as soon as possible to avoid the more serious consequences than just changed search provider and aggressive promotions. Below you will find all the necessary information on how to get rid of Sports Score hijacker safely and fast.

How does Sports Score virus spread

There are many ways browser hijackers like Sports Score virus spread, however, what our researchers found is a very common practice amongst recent malware – disseminating via pop-ups and redirecting ads. Although bundling has been the main way for various small malicious applications to compromise computers (taking aback unsuspecting users after sneaking in the virus with some other unrelated program), browser notifications feature and rerouting links have become more prevalent in the current cyber world. These hyperlinks are placed by shady ad-networks, e.g. Adcash, Popcash, Propeller Ads Media, Adk2, AdSupply, Sh.st on popular websites, which have tons of visitors: 4shared.com, 2shared.com and etc.

Sports Score hijacker now spreads through:

• pop-ups (like Relstemportsin.club, Tert1ary.com, Ukliminimate.club)
• redirects (like Gsafe.getawesome.com, Asinartisationy.info, Incitementbenefaction.club, yealnk.com, securetrck-dl.com)

According to the SimilarWeb.com report, the landing page (install.getsportscore.com), on which after clicking on these diverting links victims end up, each month is visited by a least 2.6 Million visitors mostly from around the United Kingdom, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, United Arab Emirates. Yet that doesn’t mean that Sports Score virus does not reach other regions too, especially with tons of subdomains: feed.getsportscore.com, suggest.getsportscore.com, pixel.getsportscore.com, api.getsportscore.com, nt.getsportscore.com, portal.getsportscore.com, install3.getsportscore.com, install2.getsportscore.com, install4.getsportscore.com, install5.getsportscore.com, ipixel.getsportscore.com, www.getsportscore.com. Therefore overall and preventative computer’s security is very important, just as practising Safe online browsing skills.

How to uninstall Sports Score hijacker

After you decide to finally get rid of Sports Score hijacker, you might find yourself in a challenging situation if you have never removed an extension from Chrome or for some reason it doesn’t seem to go anywhere no matter how hard you press that ‘Remove’ button. Sometimes, even after you do get rid of the Malicious plugin, it comes back right away and the symptoms of a controlled browser stay. Fortunately, no matter if the Sports Score virus managed to infect your browser with a very persistent variant or just a regular one, we overall recommend you to download Spyhunter or Combo Cleaner (for Macs) anti-spyware program to fix the problem instantly.

Even though you can go with a manual termination method, which you will find below, malware removal programs are great when it comes to dealing with uncertain viruses and finding all kinds of dangerous files which are harming the computer. Because your system is already vulnerable and Sports Score hijacker for sure are pushing all the third-party deals on you, which might contain viruses, your PC/Mac becomes exposed as a potential target and be filled with threats, which you may not even know about. Security programs will run a full system scan and show you the results of discoveries and malevolent files which as well need to be deleting from the computer, therefore afterward you can be sure that your Chrome is not only Sports Score virus but also malware free.

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Ways to remove Sports Score virus from Chrome

In this section below you will find the manual Sports Score hijacker removal instructions from Chrome, which will come in handy if you will decide to do it yourself. Truthfully speaking, although both elimination methods work well and get rid of this browser virus, sometimes manual technique is very limited and cannot ensure that the computer is safe to use again. That is why we recommend that after deleting Sports Score extension you would run a free scan with Spyhunter, Malwarebytes or any other security tool, just to make sure that there are no threats left over in your system.

TopHow To remove Sports Score hijacker 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 Sports Score hijacker, 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.

TopHow to remove Sports Score hijacker from Google Chrome on Mac:

• Open Chrome browser.
• Enter in the url field “chrome://extensions” address and hit Enter.
• Find Sports Score hijacker on the extensions list and click on the recycle bin icon next to it.
• Click on 'Chrome' button at the top left corner. Select 'Preferences' on a drop-down menu box.
• Find 'Search' options on Settings tab. If your search engine is changed, click 'Manage Search Engines' and set your preferred search engine.
• On the same page find 'Show home button' checkbox and change your homepage.

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

• On the 'Preferences' menu window, scroll down to the bottom and find 'Reset settings' button. Click it.
• Confirm your selection and click 'Reset' on the following window.

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