When you’re installing or even just by downloading software from certain non-secure websites you can put yourself in real danger of installing without asking for your permission gotoinstall.ru as both default homepage and default search engine.
What this website’s author wants to achieve is to force you to use their search engine so they can win money through ads, plus they get to artificially increase web traffic towards their many websites. This is what gotoinstall.ru looks like, notice how they try to imitate Google’s visual look, to trick you into using it:
Although is not a great threat for your computer, nothing compared to what a ransomware or a Trojan could do without doubt, however you’ll be continuously annoyed by its incessant ads, plus your computer’s performances will be affected and you won’t be able to manually remove gotoinstall.ru to install your own homepage and search engine.
Whenever you’re installing new software in your computer, make sure to read everything posted on each install step because usually additional programs will be offered. Once installed those additional programs might turn out to be adware showing unexpected publicity or they could modify your browser’s settings to force upon you a search engine.
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