Remove gotoinstall.ru

When you’re installing or even just by downloading software from certain non-secure websites you can put yourself in real danger of installing without asking for your permission gotoinstall.ru as both default homepage and default search engine.

What this website’s author wants to achieve is to force you to use their search engine so they can win money through ads, plus they get to artificially increase web traffic towards their many websites. This is what gotoinstall.ru looks like, notice how they try to imitate Google’s visual look, to trick you into using it:

Although is not a great threat for your computer, nothing compared to what a ransomware or a Trojan could do without doubt, however you’ll be continuously annoyed by its incessant ads, plus your computer’s performances will be affected and you won’t be able to manually remove gotoinstall.ru to install your own homepage and search engine.

Whenever you’re installing new software in your computer, make sure to read everything posted on each install step because usually additional programs will be offered. Once installed those additional programs might turn out to be adware showing unexpected publicity or they could modify your browser’s settings to force upon you a search engine.

How to remove gotoinstall.ru ?

Remove gotoinstall.ru with AdwCleaner

The AdwCleaner program will examine your computer and web browser for gotoinstall.ru, browser plugins and registry keys, that may have been installed on your pc without your knowledge.

• You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
  Download AdwCleaner
• Before starting AdwCleaner, close all open programs and internet browsers, then double-click on the file AdwCleaner.exe.
• If Windows prompts you as to whether or not you wish to run AdwCleaner, please allow it to run.
• When the AdwCleaner program will open, click on the Scan button.
• To remove malicious files that were detected in the previous step, please click on the Clean button.
• Please click on the OK button to allow AdwCleaner reboot your computer.

Remove gotoinstall.ru with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an important security program for any computer user to have installed on their computer. It is light-weight, fast, and best of all, excellent at removing the latest infections like gotoinstall.ru.

• Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
  Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
• Double-click mbam-setup-consumer.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
• 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.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for gotoinstall.ru.
• 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.
• Reboot your computer if prompted.

Remove gotoinstall.ru with ZHPCleaner

ZHPCleaner is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using ZHPCleaner you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

• If Avast is installed on you computer you have to disable it during the process.
• You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
  Download ZHPCleaner
• Select ZHPCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
• Accept the user agreement.
• Click on the Scanner button.
• After the scan has finished, click on the Repair button.
• Reboot your computer.

Reset default homepage (if necessary)

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer