If you’ve being redirected towards go.mail.ru or mail.ru without no apparent reason, without a doubt you’ are being the victim of an adware. What we found on go.mail.ru is a Russian web search engine that tries by artificial means to increase the traffic going through their site, specially by showing the user pages he/she never asked for. To achieve this go.mail.ru takes advantage of unwanted programs that once installed on your PC, can modify any of your installed browsers configuration of parameters they seem fitting.
We show you below how this website looks like, take into consideration that they tend to change their visual look regularly:
We “obtain” unwanted programs usually by not paying attention when downloading and installing free software found on the internet. By forgetting to read all that is written on the install process, we easily end up with many of programs like this whose only goal is to pollute or systems and turn our computers slow. Most antivirus programs don’t block this kind of adware because to them it looks like your install it by choice. That’s why first of all we recommend to verify how trustworthy any website or download platform you use really is, and on the other hand to read carefully everything that the install process tell you.
You’ll find below a free guide including free tools to remove go.mail.ru and any adware present in your computer.
How to remove Go.Mail.Ru ?
Remove Go.Mail.Ru with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a useful tool made to eliminate unwelcome toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner needs no set up and can be ran in a instant to examine your system.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove Go.Mail.Ru with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware detects and removes malware like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware, and more. All you have to do is launch Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free and run a scan. If you want even better protection, consider Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium and its instant real-time scanner that automatically prevents malware and websites from infecting your PC.
- Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
- Once the program has loaded, select Scan now.
- When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
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