I had a major problem trying to get smartsputnik.ru from being my default browser. I'm pretty sure that it came from some weird Japanese game my neighbor's kid downloaded recklessly from some site.
I tried removing it from Google Chrome through the settings but I can't remove it. This is what Chrome tells me:
This setting is enforced by your administrator.
I haven't seen that before, nor did I know that was even possible. I checked the only other browser on my PC, IE. And smartsputnik was there as well. Also I went to regedit and looked for the "smartsputnik" keyword using 'Find'. All I saw was one value and I deleted it. I ended process trees of those that I haven't seen before. But I saw some of them coming back.
I've reset Chrome settings afterwards but the problem persists.
I don't want to mess anything else since I'm more of the game developer type.
I also tried SystemLook program from what I've read in the internet. But that was for another malware. I didn't understand the logs I got and don't want to mess with it as well.
I'm all out of options here.
I need to remove this search engine and anything related to it. It's in Russian language so I don't need it even more.