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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

How to Remove Search.SmartShopping.com from Your Computer?

Have been bothered by Search.SmartShopping.com? You don’t know how to deal with it? Or you have tried a lot of means to remove it, but fail? Don’t worry, this post will do you a favor.

What Is Search.SmartShopping.com?


Search.SmartShopping.com is a malicious browser hijacker. It can attack your computer regardless of the web browser or search engine. You may think that it can do you a favor when you do online shopping for it often provides all kinds of coupon or deals. But when Search.SmartShopping.com is exploited by the third party for commercial purpose, it will become dangerous. It is reported that Search.SmartShopping.com often comes along with freeware or other downloadable software. And it is quite stubborn and foxy for it can pretend to be a legitimate website in order to escape your sight.




Being a potentially unwanted program, Search.SmartShopping.com will certainly produce great harmfulness. After entering successfully, it will display tons of ads. And those ads will remain on your computer from time to time unless you remove them. If you click ads without a second look, your homepage will be hijacked. That is, your browsing will be hindered by this sudden change. It will turn to Search.SmartShopping.com which has been planned by the third party. Besides, lots of browser extension will take up too much memory of your computer, which may slow down the whole system’s operation.

Now you can see that Search.SmartShopping.com is really malicious. If you just let it reside on your computer, it will gradually ruin your computer in the end.  So don’t hesitate to remove it once it appears on your computer.

More threats of Search.SmartShopping.com:


1) It could infect various web browsers via various unfair means.
2) It makes great changes on web browser and system without permission.
3) It runs automatically whenever you browse the Internet.
4) It may keep showings tons of irritating pop ups and ads.
5) It may spy on your browsing habits.
6) It makes the web browser slow and vulnerable.
7) It may help cyber criminals to track and steal personal information stored on the computer.

How to Remove Search.SmartShopping.com?


Step A: Delete Search.SmartShopping.com from Control Panel


 %AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random“.exe”



Step B: Delete Search.SmartShopping.com from Folder Options


1) Open Control Panel and search for Folder Options.
2) When you are in the Folder Options, click its View tab. Choose “Show hidden files, folders and drives” and tick “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”.
3) Press “OK”. Remove the associated process.

Step C: Delete Search.SmartShopping.com from Registry Editor


1) Press Windows+R keys together to pop up the Run box.
2) Type in “regedit” and hit “OK” to open Registry Editor.

3) Find out the related registry entries and delete.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\urlsearchhook.toolbarurlsearchhook HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\webbrowser HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”

Step D: Delete Search.SmartShopping.com by installing SpyHunter


1) Click the icon below to download Spyhunter.


2) Install Spyhunter Step by Step:




3) Start a full and quick scan with SpyHunter .


4) Remove detected threats.


Attention
Search.SmartShopping.com is quite dangerous. Usually, it can get into your computer with multiple ways. It can arouse many problems to your computer. Hence, for your computer’s security, you should remove it as soon as possible. Here I strongly recommend you to install powerful Anti-Malware program SpyHunter to help you get rid of Search.SmartShopping.com. It can detect and remove Search.SmartShopping.com automatically. It is more effective and convenient. You can rely on it.

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