How to remove mail ru from browsers.

Mail.ru is detected as malicious software. This is because it hijacks the internet browsers of computer users and constantly appears in new tabs. The Mail.ru virus usually sneaks into the system when you download and install files from the Internet. Unfortunately, it is difficult to remove from your computer. Regardless of whether you try to restore the system or reinstall the browser in question, it still comes back again and again.

Virus and its symptoms

Mail.ru virus can damage program files. It is for this reason that you will not open some games and applications.

Moreover, the Mail.ru virus is capable of loading other Trojans into the system. It can secretly track your browser browsing and then collect important information, including data credit card, search keywords, IP address, email contacts.

General symptoms of virus infection

Once on the computer, Mail.ru begins to manifest itself as follows:

Complete removal of a virus from your computer

There is no doubt that the Mail.ru virus is very dangerous. You should get rid of it as soon as possible. To completely remove adware from an infected computer, follow the four steps below.

Removing the virus and all suspicious programs through the “Control Panel”

On Windows 10:

On Windows 8/8.1:

On Windows 7:

Video: how to uninstall a program through the Control Panel

Resetting browsers, getting rid of malicious extensions and add-ons created by a virus

To reset your browsers, do the following:

IN Internet Explorer:

On Google Chrome:

IN Mozilla Firefox:

In Apple Safari:

Video: how to reset Google Chrome browser settings

Scanning your computer with an antivirus

Manual removal of Mail.ru is quite difficult for ordinary users. There is a high probability that the virus will not be completely removed. To avoid this, follow these steps:

Click the Scan button.
Click on the Scan button to start scanning

Video: how to use Zemana Antimalware

Removing Guard@Mail

To delete [email protected], follow these steps:

Scroll the list installed programs and delete [email protected] just like any other adware you might see. To view the most recently installed programs, you can click the Installed On column. This will sort your programs by installation date. Scroll through the list and remove unnecessary or unknown programs.
Remove Guard just like any other adware

How to prevent a virus from infecting your computer or browsers

Virus infection occurs primarily due to the users themselves, who, when downloading free programs agree to the installation themselves additional components, including Mail.ru.

When installing free programs, carefully study the list of additional options

First of all, when running files with the .exe extension, you need to carefully study the options that are offered by the installation wizard. To avoid toolbars and viruses, simply uncheck these boxes, thereby not agreeing to download third-party unnecessary applications to your computer.

Intrusive services from Mail.ru are crashing onto your PC from everywhere. The company's aggressive policy in distributing its products has led to the fact that initially useful programs quickly turned into information garbage, which can seriously slow down the browser and computer, and simply interfere with the user. But getting rid of these programs is not so easy: they run in startup, they protect themselves from being deleted, they appear out of nowhere even after they have been deleted. But you can still remove the software from the email.

How to clear your entire computer from Mail.ru services

The “hit list” of junk programs from Mail.ru includes not only browser extensions, but also individual products that are comparable in their maliciousness to viruses: they change the default settings of programs, block user installed services, in order to connect their own instead, independently download other software, increasing the number of junk programs on the computer.

Junk software:

1. [email protected] is a messenger full of intrusive advertising.
2. Amigo Browser is an Internet browser that immediately after installation makes itself the default browser.
3. [email protected] is a search application for the browser.
4. [email protected] - add-on top panel browser, spoiling its appearance and impairing performance.
5. [email protected]- theoretically, it is an anti-virus application that protects the user’s browser from spam and viruses; in practice, it aggressively changes browser settings, blocks all search agents except Mail.ru, and limits the ability to delete its counterparts; one of the most difficult programs to remove.
6. [email protected]- a utility that downloads and updates Mail.ru software. It is she who restores other programs even after they are deleted, so it is extremely important to get rid of it.

Mail.ru makes its website the home page of browsers and includes its own “visual bookmarks.”

How to get rid of junk software through Programs and Features (Add or Remove Programs)

First, we remove what is easiest to get rid of.

1. Go to the Start menu and select the Control Panel option.
2. On the “Control Panel” go to the “Programs and Features” item (in the old Windows versions- "Installation and removal of programms").
3. We look for those annoying applications from Mail.ru in the list of installed programs (the easiest way to find them is to sort the programs by manufacturer name). They need to be deleted by selecting them in the list with the mouse cursor and clicking the “Delete” button.

Photo gallery: deleting mail services through the control panel

Find the “Control Panel” item in the “Start” menu. In Windows 7 and higher, the item with installed programs is called “Programs and Features” A list will appear installed services Mail.ru in the Programs and Features window

How to remove Mail.ru processes

The next step is to remove what could not be removed through Programs and Features.

1. Open the manager Windows tasks. By default, it opens using the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination. In new versions operating system(after Windows XP) after clicking this combination, a dialog box will appear in which you need to select the “Task Manager” item.
2. In the “Task Manager” window that opens, look for all processes that have mail.ru in their name (as a rule, Sputnik and Updater are guilty of this).
3. For each of the processes found in step 2, you need to right-click and select “Open file location” from the drop-down menu.
4. After opening the folder where they were hiding residual files garbage program, right-click on the process again and select the “End process” action (if there is no such option, you need to select the “End task” action).
5. In the folders opened in step 3, we find everything related to Mail.ru and delete it.

If you have games installed on your computer that work through the Mail.ru game center (for example, Perfect World, Archeage, Allods Online), it is important not to remove it along with harmful programs. Without it, games localized by Mail.ru will not be able to launch; you will have to reinstall the game center again.

Sometimes services from Mail.ru affect not only processes, but also services (yes, we are talking about the infamous Guard and sometimes Updater). To check if there are any malicious programs left there, you need to:

1. Open services (the easiest way to do this is through “Search” in the Start menu, where you need to type “Services,” or through the tab of the same name in the task manager).
2. Scroll through the list of services looking for names marked Mail.ru.
3. Stop services found in step 2: right-click on the name and select from context menu"Stop" item.
4. Right-click on the service name again and select “Properties”. In the window that opens, on the “General” tab, in the “Executable file” parameter, the path to the directory from which the service is launched is specified.
5. Go to the directory found in step 4 and clear it.

If you couldn’t remove some programs through the control panel, it’s time to try it again: when services and processes are disabled, the removal should go without problems.

Photo gallery: uninstalling Mail.ru programs via Task Manager

By pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete in new versions of the system, a window appears in which you need to select the “Task Manager” item The shortened version of the task manager does not display processes; to display them you need to click on “More details” Running processes Mail.ru in Task Manager To display full list services in the “Task Manager” you need to click the “Open services” button. You can track the folder from which the mail service is launched by clicking the “Properties” button in the window with Windows services

Cleaning up temporary folders

Even after programs are uninstalled, their temporary files remain on the system. They can restore what was deleted and return programs to their place. To prevent the return of junk software, temporary files must also be removed.

By default, temporary program files are located at C:\Users\<имя пользователя>\AppData\Local\Temp. The files stored here behave cunningly: their names do not indicate that they are related to Mail.ru. Therefore, it is recommended to completely remove the content Temp folders. Nothing bad will happen to other programs due to the deletion of Temp content, but temporary Mail.ru files will be destroyed.

Programs from Mail.ru can also be hidden in the Local folder itself, but they, unlike the files in the Temp folder, give themselves away by their name. If a folder with a distinctive name is found there, it should also be deleted.

Cleaning the Temp folder and checking Local should be performed for each user.

If there is no such folder in the list, your display is disabled system files and folders. You can enable it as follows:

1. In the Control Panel menu, click File Explorer Options.
2. Go to the “View” tab and in the list that opens, find the “Hidden files and folders” item.
3. Click on the circle next to the value “Show hidden files, folders and drives”, save changes by pressing the “OK” button.

And to make sure that there are no Mail.ru files left in the system, use the search in the Start menu. Search by keywords mail.ru and amigo. All files obtained as a result of the search must be deleted.

Cleaning the Windows registry

The last step remains: system registry. It contains information and software settings, so sometimes Mail.ru services may be reinstalled due to this residual data.

Windows Registry, or system registry, is a hierarchically built database of parameters and settings in most operating systems Microsoft Windows. The registry contains information and settings for hardware, software, user profiles, presets.

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1. Press the Win+R key combination.
2. In the Run window that opens, type the regedit command from the keyboard (or copy and paste it from this instruction) and press Enter.
3. In the “Registry Editor” window that opens, select the “Edit” menu item and type mail.ru in the “Find” text field.
4. Click the "Find Next" button.
5. All found sections must be deleted (there may be several of them; you can use the F3 key to switch between sections).

If you are afraid to manually go into the registry and system folders, you can use system cleaning utilities instead: for example, CCleaner or Wise Care. These are programs designed to rid the operating system of software garbage. They are convenient to use if you don't have enough time or confidence to solve a problem manually.

Worse than a virus: how to remove Mail.ru services from browsers

We finally sorted out the computer. Now it's time to clean up your browser. It’s already easier here: when tricky services like Sputnik or Guard are removed, cleaning browsers won’t take much time.

Removing the Mail.ru start page

We open the browser - and immediately it pops up at us home page Mail.ru. This occurs due to the fact that malicious programs change the settings of the Internet browser, setting their website as the home page (the one on which the browser starts working). Of course, you shouldn’t leave it like that, unless you’re a Mail.ru fan. But then why would you need to remove it?

1. We go to the browser settings. IN different browsers the Settings button is located in different places, but in Lately popular Internet browsers have come to a consensus: you can find this button in the right top corner windows (the exception is Opera: there the button is located in the upper left corner of the window).
2. In the browser drop-down menu, select “Settings” - the corresponding page will open.

IN Google Chrome The start page can be changed in the menu subheading "Open at startup". You can choose a blank page, or you can choose your own - most importantly, not Mail.ru. It is generally recommended to remove it from the list of start pages: to do this, click on the “Add” button and, when the list opens, remove from it everything related to the annoying search engine.

Photo gallery: how to remove email from the start page of the Google Chrome browser

The button that opens the drop-down menu with the “Settings” item is located in the upper left corner of Google Chrome Settings, in which mail ru registers himself as home page Google browser Chrome In the settings, you can replace the mail start page with your own, or set the page quick access as the start page of the Google Chrome browser

The Opera browser is very similar to Chrome in this regard. Menu subtitle in the “Basic” tab of the settings window, where you change home page, called "At startup".

Photo gallery: changing the email start page in the Opera browser

The menu button is in the upper left corner Opera browser On the “Basic” tab, you can specify the start page Starting from the 15th version of the Opera browser, the “Home” item is called “Open a specific page, or several pages”

At Mozilla Firefox needed Our functions are located in the “Start” menu sub-item. Here you just need to click on the “Restore Default” button to return home page to standard settings.

Photo gallery: changing the email start page in Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox settings menu in Windows 7 and Windows XP Settings to change the start Mozilla pages Firefox Settings to open tabs that were not closed in the previous session instead of the start page

In Yandex.Browser, it is almost impossible to set Mail.ru as the home page, as well as install extensions from Mail.ru there. This is due to the fact that Yandex and Mail are competitors, and their programs protect themselves from each other. But if the email fits into Yandex.Browser, then just scroll down the settings menu: all the settings for this browser are located on one page.

Photo gallery: changing the email start page in Yandex.Browser

Drop-down menu of options in Yandex.Browser - from it you can go to the settings section This is what the setting for setting the start page looks like This is what the result of applying the “Open quick access page” setting looks like A setting that will result in tabs that are not closed in being opened as start pages last Yandex.Browser session

In the browser Microsoft Edge(formerly Internet Explorer) home page settings are located under the "Open with" menu item.

To set your start page, you must select “Specific page or pages”

Removing extensions from Mail.ru

When you are done with changing the start page, you need to remove everything that remains: usually these are browser extensions. It’s worth mentioning right away that it is best protected from the penetration of Mail extensions Microsoft browser Edge (because it allows you to install extensions only from official store), as well as Yandex.Browser (as a competitor to Mail.ru). Others are not so resilient in the face of threat. These are the ones we will cleanse.

1. Click on the settings button at the top of the window, select “Add-ons” (the exception is Google Chrome: there add-ons are also located under the “Settings” button).
2. We see a list of extensions and look for intrusive plugins from Mail.ru in it.
3. Then it’s simpler: next to each extension there is a “Delete” button. That's what we need. We remove all malicious add-ons, but do not touch those that you installed yourself along the way.

Video: instructions for removing Mail.ru junk programs

How to block the ability to install services from Mail.ru - tips

It's good to get rid of annoying programs. But it’s even better to block their ability to install on your computer. This point is more of a recommendation than step by step guide. No one can give a 100% guarantee of protection against infection by junk programs. But there are a number of precautions that, if observed, will significantly increase the security of your computer.

First of all, the most frequent path infections - through “invisible” checkboxes when installing programs. A common situation: a person installs a program that is completely unrelated to Mail.ru services - and out of nowhere the Amigo browser appears on his computer. The fact is that during installation of the program, the person did not notice the small checkbox placed opposite the “Install Mail.ru components” item. The checkbox may be checked by default, and there may be a “recommended” mark next to it. The checkbox may even be marked gray as uneditable, although in fact such a checkmark can be removed with one click. Programs that distribute junk services try to confuse and deceive users. It is extremely important not to fall for these tricks.

Secondly, sometimes there are no invisible checkboxes, but there are items like “ Quick installation(recommended)" and "Custom installation". If we are not talking about some specialized programs With a huge amount add-ons, “Quick installation” differs from “Custom” only in that it includes services from some unscrupulous manufacturer by default. And, having installed the program “quickly”, you may encounter problems that are far from fast process cleaning your computer from junk programs.

Thirdly, during installation, the program may bring Mail.ru components to your computer without any warning. This happens rarely, but it still happens, and there is no way to protect yourself from it: it is impossible to predict whether an unfamiliar program will install Amigo or Sputnik along with it. Just hope for the best and don’t download setup files from unverified sources.

Mail.ru Group offers and useful services: For example, cloud storage. But Mail.ru applications, filled with advertising, inconvenient to use and greatly slowing down the computer, are not useful. They harm the user, and even spread almost fraudulently. Therefore, when downloading files from the Internet, do not lose vigilance so as not to drown in a sea of ​​garbage and malware. And if you were unable to protect yourself from malware, use the removal instructions and be more careful in the future.

I often hear the question of how to delete mail.ru. Some users, having gotten rid of the GuardMailRu agent, think that they will be able to automatically remove mail.ru. However this various components, albeit installed on the computer together. GuardMailRu is an agent with which you can communicate with other users, and search string- completely different. Therefore, the problem of how to remove mail.ru from a computer remains unresolved.

The search bar replaces standard search in the browser, and this annoys many users and prevents them from working. The catch is also that regular user not only cannot find a suitable solution, but also does not know how to correctly ask the question: “How to remove mail.ru?”, or “How to remove mail agent?”, or something similar. Even a specialist sometimes cannot understand what exactly the person who turns to him wants to achieve. Therefore, I’ll clarify once again that this note tells you how to remove mail.ru from your computer - namely, how to remove the search bar.

Removing mail.ru

The steps described below apply to the Mozilla Firefox browser, but similar operations can be done with others.

Method number 1. IN top menu Mozilla Firefox go to File – Edit – View. Here we find the Tools button and click on it. Opens extra menu, where we go to “Add-ons”. We are looking for all the points in which the mail.ru entry (mail.ru) is found. Don't miss the Recent Updates group. If the element remains here, it will be installed again the next time the browser is loaded.

Method number 2. IN address bar browser, enter “about:config” (without quotes), then press “Enter”. This will cause a warning box to appear. But we are brave, we promise that we will be careful and move on. In the window that appears, find the “Filter” field and enter “mail.ru” here (without quotes). Now the system itself will find all records where this combination of characters occurs. A rather impressive list may appear before us. Right-click on each entry and select “Reset”. All that remains is to restart the browser and make sure that our actions led to the desired result. In this way we can solve the problem of how to remove mail agent, mail search and other add-ons from mail.ru.

Method number 3. Press the key combination “CTRL” + “SHIFT” + “A” - the “Manage add-ons” window appears. Here you should find everything that contains the combination of “mail.ru” characters and disable it. The changes will take effect after you restart Mozilla Firefox.

If you want to get a 100% guarantee of getting rid of mail.ru search, then try doing this procedure in all three ways.

Often, when installing any programs, an entire package may be installed along the way various applications from Mail.ru. There are a lot of programs there - this is Sputnik mail.ru, browser, and [email protected] and various toolbars. All these programs really interfere with work, various notifications are constantly received, and the user’s work on the network is also monitored. How to delete mail-software will be explained in this article.

1. Delete [email protected].

First you need to open the Control Panel window.

• If anyone has difficulty finding the Control Panel, you can perform this procedure using the following simple steps:
• You need to press the buttons at the same time Win+R on your device's keyboard.
• In the window that appears, enter the command: appwiz.cpl. This command will open the Control Panel window.

• In the list, look for the program with the desired name and press the button “ Delete».

• Next, automatic deletion occurs.

2. Remove the Internet from the mail, Sputnik and Automatic Update Service.

Similarly, go to the Control Panel and look for programs with the desired names. In order not to make a mistake in the field " Publisher"should be written" Mail.ru».

3. Let's start correcting browser settings and removing plugins.

Let's look at the example of the most popular Google Chrome, as well as the browser Mozilla Firefox.

Browser Cleanup Google Chrome

• Open the menu using the button with three lines. Select the line " Tools».

• Next, the line “ Additional extensions " On the page we are looking for extensions from Mail.ru and click next to them the icon with the image “ Basket».

• Now in the main menu (the button with three stripes) select the line “ Settings" In the subsection " Initial group» put a check mark opposite « Quick access page».

• Further, in the subsection “ Appearance "Next to the Mail ru link, click " Change" And put a mark opposite “ Quick access page».

• Then, on the Mail.ru tab, which is pinned, click the right mouse button and select the line “ unpin tab».

• You also need to remove the bookmark from Mail.ru and the Internet search button from the same developer. Similarly, click on them with the right mouse button and select the line “ Delete».

Cleaning Mozilla Firefox

• Open the menu “ Add-ons».

• There we find the Sputnik plugin from mail. Click the button opposite it “ Delete».

• Restart the browser.
• Now you need to click the search icon from Mail ru and select the last line in the menu with the words “ search engine management».

• In the window you need to highlight the line with the search from Mail and click on the button “ Delete».

Thanks to these actions, the problem: " How to remove mail ru from your computer completely? will be resolved.

Mail.ru Group offers cloud services, free mail And search engine. It also offers a set of extremely dubious programs that, once on a computer, change browser settings, impose Mail.ru products, change the home page and default search. You have the right to choose. And to use it, you will have to uninstall the Mail.ru software.

Instructions for removing Mail.ru software from your computer

Software solutions from Mail.ru are distributed via package installation. You are downloading the desired program, and Guard Mail.ru is built into it.

Also, during installation, by clicking “Install by default” or mindlessly clicking the “Next” button 3 times, you become the unfortunate owner of unwanted software.

Anti-virus programs classify products from Mail.ru as “Adware”, and classify them as “Potentially Unwanted” or “Potentially Dangerous” Software. Partly due to the fact that the software is quite difficult to remove. But there is a way to completely remove Mail.ru from your computer. It will take 4 steps.

Uninstalling programs

After installing one of the products from Mail.Ru, you become the owner of a whole package of programs. You need to remove them all at once:

1. Go to the Start menu.
2. Select “Control Panel”.
3. Go to the “Add and Remove Programs” tab.
4. Now you need to remove from the list of installed programs those that are classified as unwanted software. This is quite easy to do if you click on the “Arrange” tab and select “By installation date”.

Removing tasks in the manager and deleting folders

Using the combination CTRL+ALT+DELETE open the “Task Manager”. Go to the “Processes” tab, look for running programs that have not been deleted. Right click on required process, open the folder in which it is located executable file.


After this, we complete the process and delete the file in the folder that opens. If the file is in a folder, delete the entire folder.

This operation must be repeated for all malicious processes running in the task manager.

Part malicious files remains on the system even after processes are deleted. They are stored in the temporary folder "Temp":

Control cleaning of residues

Account deleting

If you used services from Mail.ru and connected your main mailbox to them, then you run the risk of regularly receiving fresh spam on it. To prevent this from happening, you will have to get rid of your My World account. It's not difficult to do this:

1. Sign in account, go to the Settings menu. You can find this item by clicking on the “More” button in the menu.
2. At the bottom of the page there will be a “Delete My World” button.
3. When you click on it, you will get rid of linking your mail to the “My World” service. If you need this service, just change your main email to another one.

How to delete a mailbox permanently?

Removal mailbox occurs at the discretion of the administration. To delete mail, log in to your account. Click “Settings”, in this tab go to “Personal data”. To delete your account, you will have to indicate the reason and re-enter the password. Removal takes up to 5 business days.

There are still questions about removing the software, then. Please indicate what problems you are having so that we can help.