Startmain.ru virus - How to remove

Startmain.ru is a Russian domain that provides a news feed with various articles, discussing matters from nature to sports events. However, this is a webpage to avoid, especially if you are an average Internet user, trying to ensure your security. A secured device should always be a priority. If something threatens that peace, do not sit and watch while your system becomes filled with flaws. It is possible to assume that Startmain.ru virus will proceed to corrupt browsers. This feature is very common among browser hijackers. These parasites do not only break into browsers’ settings and reorganize them, but also are capable of doing more damage with the constantly generated third-party content.

About Startmain.ru virus

Startmain.ru virus has a search box so it is possible to carry out all sorts of search queries. Go.mail.ru is the selected search system to produce appropriate results. However, even though Startmain.ru virus can help you reach amusing articles and even allow you to retrieve information, you should not utilize it. This browser hijacker is going to invade your privacy and won’t stop interfering further on. Actually, it might be the opposite since the promoted third-party content might be infectious and distributed for the sake of infecting more devices with malware. Material with malicious codes can be spotted in various places.

Since Startmain.ru browser hijacker is crafted to resemble a search mechanism, you will be expected to put this domain in motion for your searching processes. If you act in accordance with these expectations, you might find yourself stuck in delicate situations. Sponsored links are additions made so more people would visit shady and little-known domains (for the sake of crooks receiving revenue for every visit). Notice bizarre URLs in your search results? This phenomenon is not a chocking discovery. Majority of new search engines incorporate links that are not pre-checked. Furthermore, Startmain.ru virus can be the red-handed culprit for making you sit through endless advertising campaigns and forcing you to visit domains completely involuntarily (via redirection).

Distribution Methods of Startmain.ru virus

Startmain.ru virus might be a consequence of a reckless decision while browsing. It is possible that your recently installed application incorporated additional content (about which you were not appropriately informed). That is why users are always advised to download software from reputable file-sharing centers. In any case, advanced/custom modes should be the preferred option. When Setup Wizard is set in this mode, installers allow peole to make modifications to terms. Optional software is usually listed in checkboxes that can be easily unmarked. Do this and proceed with your installation process.

Secure your devices from malware or spyware. Spyhunter or Malwarebytes offer top-notch security and are absolute must-haves for Internet users. Startmain.ru virus will not stand a chance against the mentioned anti-malware tools. A manual removal can eliminate this pest as well.

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Manual removal of Startmain.ru virus

How to remove Startmain.ru virus using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Startmain.ru virus 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 Startmain.ru virus . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Startmain.ru virus 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 Startmain.ru virus from macOS

Delete Startmain.ru virus from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Startmain.ru virus 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 Startmain.ru virus 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 Startmain.ru virus, 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 Startmain.ru virus 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 Startmain.ru virus 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 Startmain.ru virus, 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 Startmain.ru virus 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 Startmain.ru virus, 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 Startmain.ru virus from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Startmain.ru virus 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 Startmain.ru virus, 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.