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How to remove Smart Engine rogue anti-spyware

Malware Description:
Smart Engine, just like its clone called My Security Shield, is a malware application. It is being distributed through trojans that come as a part of movie trailers or other potential downloads located on different web resources. Smart Engine is also spreading to computers through search results poisoning tactics that aim to make Internet surfers end up on fake scan pages. Either way, you risk catching a trojan horse that makes serious changes to the targeted computer system. It adds new files and modifies Windows Registry almost paralyzing normal functioning of your workstation. Shortly after these little pranks get completed by Smart Engine, it will begin directly interfering with your PC usage routine. The rogue antivirus will start running its spoof scanners returning results that are totally fabricated. Smart Engine will as well display multiple false positives that confirm the alleged fact that your privacy is at risk due to your PC being full of various threats. Smart Engine will be constantly telling you that you got infections, while you actually have one major parasite on board – Smart Engine itself. Apart from being obnoxious, this program is also dangerous enough to render your machine barely operable. It makes your PC slow, not very responsive to the commands you issue and vulnerable to different types of malware that await their turn out there and get access to your computer ‘thanks’ to Smart Engine’s assistance. Indeed, this tool opens up a gap in the security of your workstation so that more malcode items get inside without having to overcome any particular security difficulties. So you’d better get rid of Smart Engine rogueware at once. That’s not a hard task if you perform Smart Engine removal in Safe Mode, which might be needed on some occasions. Anyway, the cleaning guide in the section below will definitely help you out with this nasty pest.

Malware Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware

Malware Author: Unknown

Threat Level: Critical

Advice: Immediately remove and scan for additional malware

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How to remove Smart Engine manually:
Manual removal of Smart Engine is a feasible objective if you have sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries.

The files to be deleted are listed below:

• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\17acbd\
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\17acbd\853.mof
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\17acbd\SmartEngine.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\17acbd\SM17a_2211.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\17acbd\SME.ico
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\17acbd\SMYEFE\
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\17acbd\SMYEFE\SMYEFE.cfg
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\17acbd\Quarantine Items
• %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Smart Engine.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\Smart Engine\
• %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\Smart Engine\Instructions.ini
• %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Desktop\Smart Engine.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\ANTIGEN.dll
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\ANTIGEN.drv
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\cid.tmp
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\CLSV.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\CLSV.sys
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\DBOLE.drv
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\delfile.sys
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\eb.sys
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\energy.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\exec.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\fan.drv
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\kernel32.dll
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\pal.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\PE.dll
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\ppal.drv
• %Documents and Settings%\Recent\tempdoc.tmp
• %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\StartMenu\Smart Engine.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\StartMenu\Programs\Smart Engine.lnk

The registry entries that need to be removed are as follows:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\3
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSSSys.DocHostUIHandler
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Smart Engine”

Please, be aware that manual removal of Smart Engine is a cumbersome process and does not always ensure complete deletion of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, manual interference of this kind may cause damage to the system. That’s why we strongly recommend automatic removal Smart Engine, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

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