What is Yocoursenews.info?

Yocoursenews.info is a browser hijacker that comes in the form of a browser extension (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer). It looks like a real search engine (Bing, Yahoo, Google), which helps the user to raise the quality of search results, get rid of the irrelevant results. In fact, it is a trick. It comes bundled with free programs and applications (such as archivers, players, etc.) via some web downloaders, without user consent. Yocoursenews.info changes the settings of your browser, homepage and default search engine on Yocoursenews.info. Yocoursenews.info displays a huge amount of advertising, banners and coupons, pop-ups and so on. Also, Yocoursenews.info can redirect the user to other sites and replace the search results. Yocoursenews.info significantly reduces the performance of your browser and increase traffic. Yocoursenews.info is a potentially unwanted program, so if you find it on your PC, then you should delete it immediately.

How Yocoursenews.info gets on your PC?

Malicious software infects a computer without user consent. Usually, Yocoursenews.info comes with free applications and programs that you can download from popular free sites such as download.com, Softpedia, Freewarefiles, Shareware, Soft32 and many others. These sites tend to create their own download managers that implement a potentially unwanted program. Users are not attentive during installation, so the computer can be infected. Always follow the important rules. Read user agreement. Take your time. Do not press the “Next” button, if you are not sure that the program will not harm your computer. Select an Advanced Installation type. Do not settle for questionable deals and carefully follow the installation process. If the malware has already penetrated to the PC, you can use our instructions to remove Yocoursenews.info immediately.

How to remove Yocoursenews.info from your computer?

To uninstall Yocoursenews.info remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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You can try both of these products to remove Yocoursenews.info

Or uninstall Yocoursenews.info manually.

Step 1: Remove Yocoursenews.info from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Yocoursenews.info.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Yocoursenews.info and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Yocoursenews.info, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Yocoursenews.info and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Yocoursenews.info from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Yocoursenews.info from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Yocoursenews.info.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Yocoursenews.info.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Yocoursenews.info.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:

1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
2. Choose Settings.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
5. Click Reset browser settings.
6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
2. Go to Help.
3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

Reset browser setting in Internet Explorer:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on the cogwheel in the right upper corner.
3. Click Internet options.
4. Go to Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Put a tick near Delete personal settings checkbox.
7. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Internet Explorer.

Step 4: Remove following files and folders of Yocoursenews.info:

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Written by Rami Douafi