How to remove email from browsers. How to remove mail ru from browsers

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 comparable in their maliciousness to viruses: they change the default settings of programs, block services installed by the user in order to connect their own instead, and download them themselves 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] is an add-on to the top bar of the browser that spoils it appearance and impairs 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. In the “Control Panel” go to the “Programs and Features” item (in older versions of Windows – “Add or Remove Programs”).
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 of installed Mail.ru services will appear 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 the residual files of the junk program are hidden, 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 the “More details” item. Running Mail.ru processes in the “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 using the 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 instead use system cleaning utilities: 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 recently popular Internet browsers have come to uniformity: 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 calls up the drop-down menu with the “Settings” item is located in the upper left corner of Google Chrome Settings in which mail ru registers itself as home page Google browser Chrome In the settings, you can replace the mail start page with your own, or set the quick access page 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 specific page, or several pages"

IN Mozilla Firefox The functions we need are 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

Menu Mozilla settings Firefox in Windows 7 and Windows XP Setting to change the start page of Mozilla Firefox Setting 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(former 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 the Microsoft Edge browser is best protected from the penetration of Mail extensions (since 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.

Firstly, the most common route of infection is 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. A checkmark may even be grayed out as not editable, 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". Unless we are talking about some specialized programs with a huge number of 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 be faced with a far from quick process of 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. You can only hope for the best and do not download installation 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.

How to delete mail.ru bookmarks if they bother you or are no longer needed? We will tell you this in the article!

This is usually required after you have seen:

Rice. 0. (warning notice).

Explanation, for those who did not know this yet, bookmarks are pages that you can go to in a fast way by clicking on the site icon with the mouse.

The easiest way to delete mail.ru bookmarks is as follows:

1. Any browser: Go to Programm Files and delete from there Mail in the bookmarks folder

2. If Opera: PU (control panel) => Install and remove programs => Delete satellite and everything related to email. RU.

Rice. 1. (installation and removal of programs)

3. If Mozilla: change the home page to another

Rice. 2 (changing the start page in Firefox)

If you were unable to delete using these methods, you can delete mail.ru visual bookmarks in another way. When installing the Mail Bar Panel, uncheck Guard Mail.ru. If you do not remove it, a typical situation will arise: Mail will be installed by default. RU. Go to OS services and stop Guard by deleting it (see picture below), then change the default page.

Rice. 3. (Remove Guard in windows system via settings)

1. We make the diagram in Figure 3 (see above). We remove together with Guard Internet - publisher mail.ru, service automatic update programs, [email protected].

2. Deleting the initial page in the email by: chrome://chrome/settings/startup (must be entered in the address bar of the browser).

Fig.4 (Deleting the initial page)

3. Make Google search the default in the top picture. We delete the email there.

4. In bookmarks, click the “Unpin” button by pointing the mouse at the bookmark itself.

Rice. 5 (unpin Mail bookmark)

5. Create an empty bookmark, close Mail bookmarks.

In this five-step method, you can delete mail.ru bookmarks.

After the work has been done, regardless of what browser you have, check whether you succeeded in deleting the bookmark. After you deleted your bookmarks, Google Chrome should be clean.

For the third picture, you can use the Your uninstaller program. Don't forget to clean the registry after the process. There is nothing difficult in getting rid of the annoying and annoying bookmarks that appear after installing Mail.

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. To remove mail ru elements:

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 the desired 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.

Some malicious files remain 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 mail ru mail

Removal mailbox occurs at the discretion of the administration. To delete mail ru 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.

» How to remove a virus from Mail.ru

Users are constantly faced with malicious software from various unscrupulous developers. As a rule, it is imposed through various Bars, add-ons and browser extensions. In the case of search from Mail.ru, in 99% of cases this is a conscious or imposed installation of Sputnik Mail.ru. Today we will tell you how to remove Mail.ru from Google Chrome.

The most effective way!

Enter this command in the address bar: chrome://settings/startup

If there are any pages that are different from normal, remove them! In theory, you should have either a starting one from Yandex or from Google.

If this does not help, then we do everything from the list (maybe out of order).

Removing traces of Mail.ru

1. Be sure to remove everything that is in any way related to Mail.ru: Satellites, Amigo browser, Agent + various add-ons. To do this, go to START - Install and remove programs and wash everything there. Sometimes malware may not be removed in a standard way. In this case, use the utility CCleaner. It is distributed free of charge.

2. On your computer, find the folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Local Settings\Application Data. There you can find folders from Mail.ru. Remove them! Or, if there are 2 folders, delete the one that does not have a digital signature. Well, or delete everything if you don’t plan to use their services and search.

3. Open your browser. Go to Extensions.
To do this, type in the address bar: chrome://extensions/.

There you need to remove all dubious extensions and always monitor this section in the future. Sometimes something can be installed here against your will, and something independently out of ignorance.

4. Set normal search as default.

Before changing the search engine in the settings, be sure to close all tabs that are in any way related to Mail.ru. This is necessary in case the automatic resuscitation of remote services does not occur. Closed tabs? Great!

Enter the command in the address bar: chrome://settings/searchEngines.
A list window will open installed search engines. Remove everything related to Mail.ru. Then set Yandex or Google as your main search engine.

Also in the “Open at startup” settings, check the box next to "Previously open tabs" . Attention: If in this column opposite “Specified pages” there are any left addresses, urgently delete them all.

5. Resetting settings is a radical way.

Oddly enough, sometimes a simple way to reset the settings helps. Essentially this is a rollback of the browser to its original state. To reset, enter the command in the address bar: chrome://settings/resetProfileSettings.

It’s not a fact that it will help, but you can try. Just in case, export your bookmarks before doing this. This will save your accumulated information and favorite sites.

These are the most effective ways to remove Mail.ru from Chrome. Try it!

Mail.ru is identified 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, keywords for search, IP address, email contacts.

General symptoms of virus infection

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

takes up a lot of processor and memory resources, thereby slowing down the computer;

hijacks web browsers and displays spam content on the screen;

installs other malware/spyware/Trojans/worms and other infected programs without the user's permission;

opens a backdoor system for remote hackers and gives them access to the computer;

tracks the user's personal data and steals his personal information.

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:

Download Zemana Antimalware from the official website and run it.

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

Click Next when scanning is complete.

Restart your computer if prompted to do so.

Video: how to use Zemana Antimalware

Removing Guard@Mail

To delete [email protected], follow these steps:

Open Control Panel:

• in Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7, click the “Start” button, then select “Control Panel”;
• In Windows 8, drag your mouse to the right edge of the screen, select Search from the list, and search for Control Panel. You can also right-click the lower left corner (formerly known as the Start button) and select Control Panel;
• In Windows 10, click the Start button, then select the Control Panel button located above it. You can also type “Control Panel” in the “Search the Internet and Windows” field and select “Desktop Applications Control Panel” from the list.

Select "Uninstall a program" from the "Programs" category. If you're using the Classic View of Control Panel, double-click Programs and Features.

Scroll through the list of installed programs and remove [email protected] just like any other adware you might see. To view the latest 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 themselves agree to install 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.

Secondly, you must have an antivirus installed. In some cases, it will allow you to avoid installing harmful programs and protect your computer. Even if the antivirus did not work on time, finding and removing viruses from the system will be much more convenient, reliable and faster than doing everything manually.

Mail.ru software is a potential threat to your computer. Mail.ru virus hijacks users' search engine, home page, new tabs, redirects them to other websites, even inserts many intrusive advertisements on web pages. Often, users themselves agree to install virus components. But do not despair if infection occurs. Removing the virus is not difficult if you follow the instructions.