Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Pop-up Virus Http://startscan.net/9 Manual Removal Guide



A great deal of suspicious extensions and toolbars appear on your IE/Chrome/Firefox? And you can’t remove them from your computer? Do you know what causes these problems? From this post you will find the answer.

Http://startscan.net/9 Detailed Information


Http://startscan.net/9 is a notorious website that makes use of hundreds of ads to clutter your Internet activities. In general, we often view this malicious domain as an evil adware program. Such dirty program usually comes alongside free programs like music players, video recorders and PDF creators. Likewise it can be installed onto your machine by spam email attachments and unreliable websites.

Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and other famous web browsers will be affected by http://startscan.net/9. It will not make changes to browser settings like homepage and search engine. But it interferes with your activities with numerous advertisements. When you are immersed in a funny Internet world, some ads pop up and ask you to update your outdated browser extensions. If you are not willing to follow these pop-up suggestions, they will show up next time. Anyway, it is extremely annoying and irritating.


Http://startscan.net/9 also hijacks your search engine furtively so as to collect your searching keywords. According to the collected data, this adware program embeds some ads and links associated with your keywords into search results.  All in all, this nettlesome program keeps bothering and harassing you. Moreover, it often automatically installs many sponsored applications and toolbars which are not good for you indeed onto the affected operating system. Owing to loads of unnecessary applications, your computer loses lots of available resources. That is why your browser takes forever to load websites frequently. If you want to have an excellent browser, you need to remove http://startscan.net/9 from your PC doubtlessly.

Guide to Remove Http://startscan.net/9 from Your Computer


It is pitiful that your antivirus program fails to remove http://startscan.net/9 from your browser. Under this circumstance, you need to remove its files and registry entries. Besides, you have to set back your browser to fix your search engine. The guide below will show you how to remove http://startscan.net/9.

Step 1: Restart the computer, keep pressing F8 till the option appears, and then use arrow keys to select Safe Mode with Networking.

Step 2: End related processes of http://startscan.net/9. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together to run Task Manager.

Step 3: Uninstall http://startscan.net/9. Click Start menu, then Control Panel, and click Programs. Select http://startscan.net/9 and right-click to select Uninstall.

Step 4: Click Start menu, then Control Panel, and search Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window. Show hidden files and delete suspicious files as below.

Step 5: Remove dropped registry files of http://startscan.net/9. Hit Win+R key to activate Run, and then type “regedit” and press OK. Find unfamiliar keys and click Delete.

Step 6: Clear inserted add-ons of http://startscan.net/9and reset browser settings.

For Internet Explorer

1. Click Tools > Manage Add-ons > Search Providers, then choose your favorite search engine like Bing or Google and make it default;

2. Click Tools > Manage Add-ons > Toolbars and Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.

3. Click Tools > Internet Options > General. And create a new homepage on Home page box.


For Google Chrome

1. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and navigate to Tools > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions by clicking Bin button.

2. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and click Settings > Appearances > Show Home button > click Change button to reset your homepage.


For Mozilla Firefox
 
1. Click Ctrl+Shift+A at the same time to open Add-ons page > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.

2. Click the Firefox button > Help > Troubleshooting Information > click on Reset Firefox button.