I wrote this article to help you remove Rusearcher.com. This Rusearcher.com removal guide works for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

The Rusearcher.com page`s appearance indicates that your machine is no longer infection-free. There is a cyber infection lurking in the corners. A browser hijacker. The pest has managed to sneak on board and you have to act fast before it is too late. Hijackers are incredibly annoying but also dangerous infections. They turn your browsing experience into a real nightmare. You are constantly interrupted when you are online. The parasite goes after your browser immediately after getting in. It modifies their default settings thus taking complete control. The virus work on Mozilla, Chrome, Internet Explorer and any other browser that you might have installed. So, you don’t even have a single reliable one to use. They are all corrupted and under the control of the pest.

Every time you go online, you get greeted with problems. For starters, the Rusearcher.com site becomes your online shadow. It is everywhere. It appears when you open a new tab. It appears among the search results. You get redirected to it while trying to visit another page. It even replaces your previous homepage and search engine. There is no getting rid of it. Of course, it is not alone.

The hijacker forces you to visit many other just as suspicious pages all the time. Your previously safe and enjoyable web surfing is effectively ruined. And all of this so that crooks can earn effortless profits. They use the hijacker to generate web traffic to particular pages so they make money via the pay-per-click mechanism. The same is the purpose of the ads you get bombarded with on daily basis. You simply cannot miss the ads. There are tons of they and they are so annoying and persistent that there is no way of you not having noticed them already. But did you notice something else? For example, the fact that the commercials look like they have been tailored for you and you alone? Because they have been.

The infection needs your clicks and it doesn’t leave anything to chance. It spies on your personal information and uses it to display advertisements that you will like. But don’t let yourself be fooled. The pop-ups were never meant to be beneficial to you. They only need to be appealing enough for you to click. In fact, they are sponsored and, hence, dangerous.

A single wrong click and you compromise your PC with more malware. We would say to avoid them but we know that is not possible. They are everywhere and it is a matter of time before you click. Unless you remove them. And the only way to do that is to remove the hijacker altogether. It only causes you damage. It also slows down your machine. Get rid of it now. Use our removal guide at the end of this article and clean your PC for good. The sooner, the better.

How did the hijacker enter? The most commonly used method is called freeware bundling. How does it work? The crooks attach their malware to another program and you, when being all distracted when installing this program, get said malware as a “bonus”. Next time, we suggest you take your time to read the Terms and Conditions before agreeing to them.

Also, opt for the Custom settings in the Setup Wizard instead of the Basic ones. They allow you to actually see all the additional programs in the bundle as well as deselect them if you wish. And we suggest that you do. After all, if you truly needed them you would have already downloaded them yourself. Caution is the key to an infection-free machine. Always be vigilant as what hackers want the most is for you to be careless. Without your carelessness, they could not succeed.

Rusearcher.com Uninstall

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you are familiar with this task, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.

For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌

Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.

While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.

Here are the steps you must perform to remove the hijacker from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.

Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.

Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

Go in the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still can not remove Rusearcher.com from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.