Score Stars New Tab - How to remove

Score Stars New Tab is correctly detected by many anti-virus programs as a browser hijacker. It replaces the blank tab with its own Score Stars New Tab. Additionally, it changes the startup page and the default search engine settings. All these amendments are not favorable for obtaining decent search results. Instead, users regularly face annoying advertisement banners, sponsored links, intrusive pop-ups and notifications through their hijacked browser.

Score Start New Tab is similar to Your Daily Trailer New Tab, GetTab New Tab, and Pdf2DocPro New Tab. Score Stars New Tab controls Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers by means of installing its associated extension. It is promoted as a useful feature that allows you to get the information about live scores, news and real-time notifications of your favorite football team from your browser new tab. In fact, all browser hijackers that work through extensions are quite similar in their descriptions. They claim that users will be able to get some exceptional services and that installing the extension will improve the browsing experience essentially. However, it appears that there are many other unwanted changes introduced by Score Stars New Tab.

Score Stars New Tab impact on the browser

Score Stars New Tab works like typical adware. It displays its intrusive advertisement banners in various corners of the screen and on the page where it delivers its own search results. Plus, these ads and sponsored links may be displayed in the form of push notifications. Finally, the hijacker possesses with spying features. From the official description, this is what Score Stars New Tab can do:

• Read and change your data on all score-stars.com sites;
• Replace the page you see when opening a new tab;
• Read your browsing history.

Whenever you want to open the blank tab in your browser you will get a warning that Score Stars New Tab is controlling this setting. So, there will be no blank tab available. You will notice the page associated with the extension. When you restart your browser you will likewise notice the extension page on the startup. It will be impossible to get your home page back to google.com or some other localized variant of Google Search until you finally get rid of the Score Stars New Tab extension.

The home page controlled by Score Stars New Tab will display some information about football matches and their results, but it additionally may contain ads and sponsored content. Plus, some adware functions may be performed by the extension through its push notifications enabled. You may be easily brought to the multitude of unsafe places on the Internet and as a result, end up infecting your computer even more substantially. Regretfully, Score Stars New Tab is also performing spying features through your affected browser. All your search queries are under the analysis of the extension. This information is collected regularly and may be later transferred to third parties for various illegal purposes to online hackers or cyber frauds.

How to remove Score Stars New Tab

In the light of the above-mentioned facts concerning Score Stars New Tab extension, it is clear that removing it is the only correct decision. The extension, of course, is not a virus, but it is not a good utility either. It is not able to provide you with genuine search results. It not only provides you with sports news but rather interferes into the way your browser works and contradicts with your search preferences. Getting rid of Score Stars New Tab has two important milestones. The first step is to access the list of browser extensions. If this problem is in Google Chrome, go to its Settings in the form of three vertical dots, click on “More Tools” and then select “Extensions”. Locate Score Stars New Tab, disable and delete it.

Another step you need to implement is to scan your computer with effective anti-virus software. Disabling the extension manually most likely will not reveal other browser issues or adware that could promote the Score Stars New Tab add-on. There is a high probability that there is a certain PUP (potentially unwanted program) still performing its illegal activities. Please scan your system with Spyhunter program that will help you to perform effective scanning of your computer and locate other problems within it.

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How to remove Score Stars New Tab using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Score Stars New Tab 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 New Tab . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Score Stars New Tab 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 New Tab from macOS

Delete Score Stars New Tab from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Score Stars New Tab 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 Score Stars New Tab 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 Score Stars New Tab, 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 Score Stars New Tab 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 Score Stars New Tab 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 Score Stars New Tab, 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 Score Stars New Tab 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 Score Stars New Tab, 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 Score Stars New Tab from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Score Stars New Tab 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 Score Stars New Tab, 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.