Browser hijackers like Spacesearch.ru modify your browser’s default homepage and search engine. To be more clear we should state that every browser installed on your computer at the time of the infection will be in fact affected; of course Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer will be the most affected ones.
Spacesearch.ru as any other browser hijacker out there, makes it difficult for us to change back the settings so we can have back our own homepage. They modify Windows’ registry so their settings are placed back after every computer restart. Spacesearch.ru also changes the Tools menu options, so you have no means to set your homepage again; in Chrome we can see this as a kind of enterprise rule where no change can be done.
Spacesearch.ru was only developed to increase someone’s income through ads, and to artificially increase websites ratings in search engines. As you see this is not a dangerous virus where dealing with, however we can deny its a very annoying program all the same.
If you do a web search with the key “remove Spacesearch.ru” you’ll find many websites offering solutions, however, less than 1% of them will offer you a simple steps guide and free software to use. We are part of that 1%, as you’ll see below.
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