How to Remove Nova.rambler.ru Completely

Every time I launch the browser, the website Nova.rambler.ru appears automatically as my default homepage. I have tried resetting Google as my homepage but failed. It is really annoying. My computer system is Windows 7 64 bits. How can I solve the problem? Any help would be appreciated.

What Is Nova.rambler.ru?

Nova.rambler.ru is notorious for its deception tactics created by cyber hackers to obtain commercial gains from infested computer. This website makes use of attracting and convincing design to pretend as professional and helpful and it adds some familiar icons and connect to links such as Google plus, Twitter and Facebook icons to make it more trustworthy. Hence, don¡¯ believe in it for it is exploited by cyber hackers to generate traffic and promote specific products which may severely decrease the system performance. If you analyze the page more carefully, you will find out that it is actually designed to bombard pops- up to promote undesirable things on the computer. If you try to search something on this fake search engine, but all you can get are unwanted results including advertisements and porn. On account of the browser hijacker, you will be redirected to Nova.rambler.ru or other unwanted websites from unknown third parties when you click on some websites. Some pop-up advertisements asking you to download unknown programs, update plug-ins or scan and optimize your computer performance with some products and so on will frequently show up. Then when you are worried about the situation, the malicious program will suggest you purchase its full version online.

Once your computer has been infested by Nova.rambler.ru, it starts to modify default search engine¡¯ setting immediately, disrupt browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and reduce the performance of the whole system. More seriously, it drags down your system speed and allows unwanted Plug-in/extension or add-ons get onto your browsers. You may fail to open the frequently-used sites, such as Yahoo mail and Twitter, because your browser has been messed up by the redirect virus. Besides, it will totally modify your browser settings and internet settings and won¡¯t allow you to reset them back to the normal states even you have tried several times. However, don¡¯t believe the fraud it set up, try to remove the program and don¡¯t get in touch with this evil website hijacker any more.

To protect your computer and your private information, please remove Nova.rambler.ru immediately as soon as your computer is infected by it. Please refer to the removal guide given below if you don¡¯t know how to perform the removal of this threat.

Problems Caused by Nova.rambler.ru

1. You are redirected to unwanted web pages and the search results are not relevant to your requirement.

2. Search query usually get redirected to a page which seems to promote specific products.

3. Computer is infected with the parasites it brings, causing application slowdown and system instability.

4. The performance of the infested browser may reduce greatly for the browser hijacker utilizes it to perform insecure tasks.

5. It complicates usual surfing experience, adds unneeded features to browser, and serves unwanted website instead of the required ones.

Browser Hijacker Manual Removal Instructions

Since the advanced anti-virus software can¡¯t take effectively to get rid of the browser hijacker, then manual removal will be highly required. Frankly speaking, the manual removal way is complicated and requires you to have enough computer knowledge and skills. The following are the steps to manually remove Nova.rambler.ru redirect virus (Please be very careful during the removal process, especially when dealing with the files and registry entries):

1. Stop running processes related to this redirect virus
a: When the Windows Task manager appears, switch to Processes tab.
b: Find out and select the processes related to the virus by name random.exe, and click on the ¡°End process¡± button.
2. Remove the redirect virus from Internet Explorer:
a: Start IE, go to Tools and select Internet Options.
b: Find General section, remove the unwanted address as a home page.
c: Then go to Search section, find Settings button and choose Manage Add-ons
d: Erase the redirect and after the action, close Manage Add-ons
3. Remove the redirect virus from Mozilla Firefox:
a: Open Mozilla Firefox browser, click on tools and go to Options.
b: Switch to General tab, remove the unwanted address as a startup site.
c: Then, go to: Firefox -> Add-ons -> Add-ons Manager -> Remove.
d: In the Search list, select Manage Search Engines and erase this redirect and choose OK
4. Remove the redirect virus from Google Chrome:
a: Open Google Chrome and navigate to Settings tab and Set pages.
b: Erase Nova.rambler.ru which was seta as the startup site and choose OK
c: Find Manage search engines and here, erase this redirect.
d: Press on OK, and restart Google Chrome.
5. Delete all registry files created by this redirect
a. While the Registry Editor is opened, search for the registry key ¡°HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ Nova.rambler.ru.¡± Right-click this registry key and select ¡°Delete.¡±
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ¡°[RANDOM].exe¡±
b. Navigate to directory %PROGRAM_FILES%\ Nova.rambler.ru \ and delete the infected files manually.
%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\*.*

Conclusion

Nova.rambler.ru redirect virus is a computer virus used by cyber criminals to promote their own website or other affiliated websites. Once it gets inside the infected computer, it will be very difficult to remove it in a short time. You might have tried to use manual way to get rid of it or you have to restore system to its previous state. You would not be able to make the favorite website as your homepage even you reset the browser settings or re-install your browser. The reason why it is so hard to delete is that it has changed system settings and browser settings, and it also modify the Windows registry and writes its entries into registry. To guard your private information and financial related account from undesirable attacks, you should remove Nova.rambler.ru immediately.

Note: It needs certain level of computer knowledge and skills to manually remove the redirect virus. Use a professional malware cleaning tool instead if you are not familiar with computer.