If you followed strictly the instructions, but you failed to get rid of mail.ru, or you succeeded, but partially - follow the same steps again, but only from safe mode.
For example, on Windows 8, this is done as follows:
- restarting your computer;
- the next time the system boots, press the F8 button (a selection menu may appear "Boot Device", select "Hard Disk", click "Enter" and then again F8);
- then a menu with additional system boot modes should appear, use the arrows on the keyboard to select the "safe mode" item;
- choose the required account;
- a window will appear in which it will be said about working in safe mode, click on the "Yes" button (if you click "No", the system recovery process will be launched ");
- when the desktop appears, you can perform the above actions;
After all these steps, it is recommended to clean the registry. Novice users can use a special program Ccleaner, it will be much easier than doing everything manually. It is completely free (and does not install unnecessary toolbars). Download it exclusively from the official site.
How to remove the mail ru satellite fromGoogle chrome
First of all, it is necessary to stop the activities of "Sputnik" and "Mail.ru Defender". Therefore, we open the "Start" menu and go to the "Control Panel". Then we open the "Add or Remove Programs" section. 
In the next window, we are looking for "Mail.ru satellite", select it and click "Delete". 
A window will appear asking you to confirm these actions. Of course we confirm them.
Here the "Defender" may start to be very indignant, press "Accept". 
Now we delete "Guard mail.ru".
We again confirm the removal of the program. 
Now let's start cleaning the browser itself.
All tabs that were pinned together with mail.ru services must be closed. Right-click on them and click "Close tab". 
Then open the browser settings window. 
Where the "Initial group" is, you must set the radio button next to "Last opened pages". 
Slightly below, where the section "Appearance", we click on the link "Change". 
A window will appear in which select "Quick Access Page". 
In the next section "Search", specify a suitable search engine. Usually, everyone is comfortable using and choosing Google. 
Now open the Extensions tab. 
Find visual bookmarks and delete them (if you don't need them). Confirm these actions. 
And you get again clean Chrome, in which there are no unwanted additions.
Remove Mail Ru from Opera browser
Let's start removing annoying programs starts with GuardMail.Ru. This will help avoid blocking the process of removing Sputnik.
We go to the "Start" menu and open the "Control Panel", then open the "Add or Remove Programs". 
In the next window, find the GuardMail.Ru defender, select it and click Delete.
A warning will appear, just confirm your intentions to remove this program.
After that, follow the same procedure with the Mail.Ru Sputnik application. Find it in the same list, select it and press the "Delete" button. 
After that, confirm this action.
These programs embed their components into the browser. Therefore, we open “Opera” and expand the main menu, then go to “Bookmarks”. Find everything related to Mail.Ru, right-click on it and select "Delete".
Now go to the "Extensions" section and, if there is something installed from Mail.Ru, we can safely delete it. After that, you can safely set your home page and use the browser in normal mode.
After these procedures, just in case, it is better to clean the registry. The easiest way to do this is with the Ccleaner program.
For those who use IE9 as their primary browser, the procedure for uninstalling mail.ru applications is as follows.
Open the "Start" menu and enter "installation" in the search bar. From the list of detected files and applications, select "Add or Remove Programs".
Another way to open this window is through the Start menu to open Control Panel and select the same system utility.
We find Guard.Mail.Ru in the list. Select it and click Remove.
Do you see in Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer every time you start the browser and you know for sure that you have not installed this extension in your browser? This means that your computer is infected with a program that forcibly installed the "Mail.Ru Visual Bookmarks" extension into your browser. The reason for this is simple, for each installation of this extension, the authors of "harmful" programs are paid.
The instructions below will allow you to remove Mail.Ru Visual Bookmarks from Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and other browsers. Moreover, adware may additionally be installed on your computer, which will display a lot of intrusive ads, making it difficult or completely blocking the work in the browser. Often, such advertisements may recommend installing other programs, or visiting malicious sites, which will lead to further infection of your computer.
The malware that has installed the Visual Bookmarks Mail.Ru extension on your computer can also change the search engine of your browser. So once infected, your browser will show a jumble of advertising links, links to malicious and misleading sites, and search results from real search engines when it searches for anything. As a result, it becomes impossible to actually use such a search, in addition, it can slow down the computer or even freeze the browser.
We suggest that you get rid of the malware that downloaded Mail.Ru Visual Bookmarks to your computer and clean your system as quickly as possible before the presence of this infection leads to even worse consequences. You need to follow a few simple steps that will allow you to completely remove malware using only the built-in capabilities of Windows and a few specialized free programs.
How to remove Visual Mail.Ru Bookmarks from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer (step by step instructions)
To remove this infection and restore browser settings for Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, follow the step-by-step instructions below. You will need to use standard Windows features and a few proven free programs. This tutorial is a step-by-step guide to follow step by step. If you don't succeed, then STOP, ask for help with this article or create a new topic on ours.
Uninstall the program that caused Mail.Ru Visual Bookmarks to appear
Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7
Click Start or press the Windows button on your keyboard. From the menu that opens, select Control Panel.
Windows 8
Click on the Windows button.
In the upper right corner, find and click on the Search icon.
In the input field, type Control Panel.
Hit Enter.
Windows 10
Click on the search button
In the input field, type Control Panel.
Hit Enter.
The Control Panel will open, in it select the item Removing a program.
You will be shown a list of all programs installed on your computer. Review it carefully and uninstall the program that you suspect is the cause of the infection. This is probably the last program you installed. Just take a close look at the rest of the programs and remove any that seem suspicious to you or you are sure you did not install them yourself. To uninstall, select a program from the list and click the button Delete / Change.
Clean up your computer using AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a small program that does not require installation on a computer and is specially designed to find and remove adware and potentially unnecessary programs. This utility does not conflict with antivirus, so you can safely use it. You don't need to uninstall your antivirus software.
Download the AdwCleaner program by clicking on the following link.
In order not to infect your computer in the future, please follow three small tips.
- When installing new programs on your computer, always read the rules for their use, as well as all the messages that the program will show you. Try not to install with the default settings!
- Keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs up to date. Also, please note that you have automatic Windows updates enabled and all available updates are already installed. If you are not sure, then you need to visit the Windows Update website, which will tell you how and what to update in Windows.
- If you are using Java, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Player, be sure to update them in time.
This is a well-known Internet portal. In order to get on as many computers as possible and be installed as a home page and search engine, this portal sponsors many free programs, as well as distributes various free software itself. For example, mail.ru agent, visual bookmarks, amigo browser. When installed on a computer, the installer of these programs can change the settings of all browsers present in the system.
Mail.ru software is very actively distributed on the World Wide Web, and although it does not particularly protect itself from deletion, you may face problems cleaning your computer from automatically opening the SEARCH mail ru portal and restoring your personal settings in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
Most often, Mail.ru software changes the settings of the most common browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Mozilla Firefox. But there are times when the installer or a free program sponsored by mail.ru also changes the shortcuts of all browsers installed on the computer, adding an argument of the following type "http://mail.ru/..." to the object field. Due to this, every time you start the browser, instead of the home page, the SEARCH mail.ru portal will open. Even if you set your favorite site as your home page, the first thing you see when you start Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Mozilla Firefox will be the obtrusive Mail.ru page. Moreover, this site will open when a new tab is created.
In addition to replacing your home page with Mail.ru, this site can establish itself as your search engine. But, obviously, this will not give you good search results, since they will consist of a large number of advertising links, and only the rest are search results for your request from the Mail.ru search engine, which is inferior in search quality to Yandex and Google. Of course, the fact that you are faced with the inability to normally search for information on the Internet is an unpleasant moment. Moreover, Mail.ru may collect information about you and further transfer it to third parties.
As mentioned earlier, Mail.ru software is distributed along with various free programs, as an add-on that is installed automatically. This is definitely not a very honest way to get on the user's computer. To avoid infection of your computer and side effects in the form of changing browser settings on Mail.ru, you should always carefully read the User Agreement and License. Also, always select manual installation mode. This will allow you to disable the installation of unnecessary and often harmful programs.
If you yourself have not installed Mail.ru as your home page and search engine, then we recommend checking your computer for viruses, cleaning the system from various malware, and thus removing Mail.ru from your browser.
How to remove Mail.ru from the computer and browser Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer
The Mail.ru installer is potentially unnecessary software that can be difficult to remove from your computer. Fortunately, our team of computer specialists have developed an effective guide, which is shown below. This instruction consists of several steps, some of which use the capabilities of the operating system and installed browsers, and the other part suggests using special well-proven free utilities. We recommend that you follow this instruction step by step. If you don't succeed, then STOP, ask for help with this article or create a new topic on ours.
Uninstall the program that caused Mail.ru to appear
Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7
Click Start or press the Windows button on your keyboard. From the menu that opens, select Control Panel.
Windows 8
Click on the Windows button.
In the upper right corner, find and click on the Search icon.
In the input field, type Control Panel.
Hit Enter.
Windows 10
Click on the search button
In the input field, type Control Panel.
Hit Enter.
The Control Panel will open, in it select the item Removing a program.
You will be shown a list of all programs installed on your computer. Review it carefully and uninstall the program that you suspect is the cause of the infection. This is probably the last program you installed. Just take a close look at the rest of the programs and remove any that seem suspicious to you or you are sure you did not install them yourself. To uninstall, select a program from the list and click the button Delete / Change.
Remove Mail.ru from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer using AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a small program that does not require installation on a computer and is specially designed to find and remove adware and potentially unnecessary programs. This utility does not conflict with antivirus, so you can safely use it. You don't need to uninstall your antivirus software.
Download the AdwCleaner program by clicking on the following link.
In order not to infect your computer in the future, please follow three small tips.
- When installing new programs on your computer, always read the rules for their use, as well as all the messages that the program will show you. Try not to install with the default settings!
- Keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs up to date. Also, please note that you have automatic Windows updates enabled and all available updates are already installed. If you are not sure, then you need to visit the Windows Update website, which will tell you how and what to update in Windows.
- If you are using Java, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Player, be sure to update them in time.
How to remove 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:
Figure: 0. (warning label).
Explanation, for those who did not know this yet, bookmarks are pages that you can go to in a quick way by clicking on the site icon with the mouse.
The easiest way to remove mail.ru bookmarks is as follows:
1. Any browser: Go to Programm Files and delete Mail from there in the bookmark folder
2. If Opera: PU (control panel) \u003d\u003e Add or Remove Programs \u003d\u003e Remove satellite and everything related to mail. RU.
Figure: 1. (add and remove programs)
3. If mozilla: change home page to another
Figure: 2 (change the start page in Firefox)
If you failed to delete these methods, then you can delete the visual mail.ru bookmarks differently. When installing the Mail Bar Bar, uncheck Guard Mail.ru. If you do not remove it, then a typical situation will arise: Mail will be installed by default. RU. Go to OS services and stop Guard by deleting it (see the picture below), then change the default page.
Figure: 3. (uninstalling Guard in windows system through settings)
1. We make the scheme in Figure 3 (see above). Together with Guard, we are removing the Internet publisher mail.ru, the automatic software update service, [email protected].
2. Removing the initial page in the mail by: chrome: // chrome / settings / startup (you need to drive it into the address bar of the browser).
Fig. 4 (Deleting a start page)
3. Do Google search by default in the upper image. Delete the mail in the same place.
4. In the bookmarks, click the "Unpin" button by hovering over the bookmark itself.
Figure: 5 (unpin Mail bookmark)
5. Creating an empty bookmark, closing Mail bookmarks.
In this five-step way, you can delete mail.ru bookmarks.
After the work done, no matter what browser you have, check if you succeeded in deleting the bookmark. After you've removed your bookmarks, Google Chrome should be clean.
For the third figure, 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 annoying and annoying bookmarks that appear after installing Mail.
The last years. It is easy to learn, fast and pleasing to the eye. However, there are also small drawbacks, such as visual bookmarks.
What are visual bookmarks? These are site thumbnails that appear in the middle of the new tab screen. To view them, you do not need to do complex manipulations, but only open a new tab.
Most browsers remember the most visited sites and automatically put them in quick access.
There is also an option to manually add links of interest to you and edit old ones. But if we talk about Chrome, then it has no such options.
There are only eight visual bookmarks and it’s impossible to fix the pages we need in them, which is why the thumbnails are constantly changing. For many, this state of affairs is a critical factor, enough even to stop working with this browser.
However, don't rush, this problem can be easily fixed by installing free third-party extensions in Google Chrome. And visual bookmarks are one of such extensions from various developers: Yandex, Mail.ru and others.
Visual bookmarks, like other extensions, can be found in the Chrome Web Store. There are three ways to get there:
- Go to the browser menu by clicking on the three horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the screen. Then select the menu item "Additional tools" and then "Extensions". A window with a list of installed add-ons will open (even if you have not installed anything, you will already have several standard ones there), and at the bottom left the button "More extensions". It is she who leads to the Khromovsky online store. Or follow this link
- In the latest builds of the browser, an additional "Services" button has appeared, which gives quick access to all Google services, including the Chrome online store. This button is located on the express panel, at the left edge. To turn on the panel, you should again click on the three horizontal stripes, select the “Bookmarks” menu item and then “Show the bookmarks bar”. If the above-mentioned button is not there, then right-click on any part of the bookmarks bar that appears and click on “Show Services button”.
So you've entered the Chrome Web Store. In the left corner there is a search bar in which you must enter the phrase “visual bookmarks”. After that, the store will find many different extensions that you can try yourself by clicking on the “Install” button. In this article, we will dwell on several of the most popular extensions.
Yandex visual bookmarks
As you might guess from the name, this function was developed by the employees of Yandex. After installation, a large Yandex smart search bar will appear at the top of the new tab (which will be renamed to “Visual Bookmarks”).
As for the bookmarks, they will take the form of minimalistic rectangles with site labels in the middle. All the saved data that you had before the installation will be transferred to this extension. The number of thumbnails will increase to 25 and the function of editing and adding new ones will appear.
To add new tabs in the lower express panel there is a special button “Add bookmark”. The same panel contains buttons for quick access to various sections of the browser and a settings button. After clicking it, a window will open in which you can change the maximum number of displayed visual bookmarks, the background of the new tab, enable and disable the search bar and several other options.
You can download add-ons from Yandex at this link.
Visual bookmarks Mail.ru
These visual bookmarks are the production of another search giant. After installation, in approximately the same place, the smart search line mail.ru will appear. On the sides of which are displayed exchange rates, weather, news and links to various mail.ru services: Mail, My World, Odnoklassniki and others.
As for bookmarks, there is the possibility of editing and adding your own, however, increasing the maximum number of these will not work.
At the bottom of the screen there is a panel with themes (change the background image) and buttons for quick access to applications and browser history.
You can download the add-on from mail.ru at this link.
Fast Dial Visual Bookmarks
These visual bookmarks are made for those who love to customize everything down to the smallest detail. There is the ability to change the number of rows and columns of thumbnails, the size and distance between thumbnails, grouping bookmarks by folders and a dozen other options. There are no left links and weather forecasts on the screen, only the thumbnails themselves and the button for opening Google services at the top border.
Access to the settings occurs using a shortcut that appears after installation to the right of the address bar.
Another plus of this extension is that you can save all your settings in a separate file.
And if you reinstall the browser, you will not have to configure the extension again, but only recover using a previously created file.
You can download Fast Dial at this link.
All visual bookmarks have their pros and cons. This article briefly describes three of the most popular extensions to look out for first. They are functional, simple and meet the requirements that many originally wanted to see in the Google Chrome browser.
