Gotoinstall.ru - How to remove

Gotoinstall.ru website tries to imitate Google with a very similar design and layout. However, you should know that this website appears as a homepage and default search engine on web browsers as a consequence of malicious browser add-on, therefore it is considered to be browser hijacker.

In case this website just showed up out of the blue as your homepage one day, there is 100% that malicious add-on is operating on your web browser. Usually this problem could be solved by simply disabling mentioned extension and removing it from the list, but it in this case things are a little bit more complicated. Since it is a computer virus, some malicious files might be implemented into your system and this way it might be not possible to remove the extension from Internet browser or even if you succeed to do it – add-on will come back very next time you restart your web browser or/and computer.

Features of Gotoinstall.ru virus

It’s definitely not the first time we have encountered a browser hijacker trying to look like Google – cyber criminals attempt to either create similar domain name or layout of the website, or both, as it can be seen by looking at viruses like scangoogle.ru or googlesearch.me.

You should know that this website itself is not a virus – you can feel free to pay a visit to it and look around, nothing bad will happen. However, if you see it as a homepage on your internet browser and can’t recall making those changes, that means malicious add-on made them without asking you.

You might be wondering how this happened? Most probably you have allowed this extension to be installed yourself, by recklessly installing free software downloaded from the Internet. This distribution method is called bundling and it goes like this – user downloads some sort of free software from a questionable sources, during the installation gets asked to add some cool and advantageous features to his web browsers and that’s it – malware like this gets added to one or multiple web browsers. By the way, most of the time this ‘offer’ to install additional tools is default, so if you just run through the installation without making any changes, it will automatically land on your computer.

Developers of Gotoinstall.ru probably don’t have intentions to steal your money, private information or do some kind of damage to your computer. All the want is to build an audience in this deceptive manner described above and display sponsored content to it. As a ‘publishers’, they get paid every time someone clicks on one of those ads.

You can see that there is one block of Google ads on their homepage, as well as additional ads block as a top result on every results page. We suggest not to click on any of those ads neither use Gotoinstall.ru as your search provider.

Domain of this website is registered in Russia, by someone who was not willing to reveal his identity – information about the owner of domain is hidden, as this fact is publicly accessible by checking Gotoinstall.ru domain on Whois website. In addition to that, there is no way to find any legal information or description of provided services on their website, so it’s another red flag.

Main reasons to uninstall Gotoinstall.ru

There are several reasons why this add-on and website should not be kept on your computer. First of all, it’s very inconvenient – using this website as your search provider will only waste your time. Moreover, you will be presented with additional dose of various advertisements. Another reason to delete it – malware can infiltrate other infection into your computer, so it is risky to keep it. By the way, the very fact that your computer was infected with this virus in a first place, means you have some serious security holes and it should be fixed.

We have already mentioned that removing Gotoinstall.ru virus will probably require anti-malware software. You can use either Spyhunter. Why those programs? They proved to be effective against malware like this and we can assure that either one of those application will be able to detect and remove all files associated with this virus, as well as provide you with security solutions you need.

Obviously, you can try to solve this problem without downloading any additional software. Since this process might be complicated, we are here to assist you – scroll down below this article and check out our step-by-step Gotoinstall.ru manual removal guide.

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How to remove Gotoinstall using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Gotoinstall.ru install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Gotoinstall . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Gotoinstall.ru easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Gotoinstall from macOS

Delete Gotoinstall.ru from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Gotoinstall app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Gotoinstall.ru from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Gotoinstall.ru, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Gotoinstall.ru from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Gotoinstall.ru related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Gotoinstall, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Gotoinstall.ru from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Gotoinstall.ru, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Gotoinstall.ru from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Gotoinstall and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Gotoinstall.ru, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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