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How to remove Smart Security rogue anti-spyware

Malware Description:
Smart Security is a really obnoxious application possessing considerable destructive capabilities and thus posing a threat to the functioning of the workstation it installs on to. Smart Security has evidently borrowed its User Interface design from another rogue anti-spyware product known as My Security Shield which has been in rotation for a while now. We assume Smart Security is going to replace its retired clone we have mentioned. The most widespread methods for Smart Security propagation are fraudulent SEO and blackhat social engineering combined with the usage of trojan viruses which actually carry the load of Smart Security malcode. When this rogue software identifies a new host system, it quickly gets down to changing the Registry in order to dominate the OS it has injected. Smart Security will shortly start bombarding the victim-user with exaggerated pop-ups, infiltration alerts and of course the fake virus scanners which are integral component of any scareware campaign. One of such fabricated scans is shown below. As you can see, Smart Security tries to pretend to be helpful despite being useless and hazardous in fact. It reports a variety of infections on your computer and then starts demanding money in exchange for their removal. It’s curious that Smart Security doesn’t really find any PC threats, which makes it obvious that there’s no need removing them. The only thing Smart Security wants is the money of its victims whose computers it compromises. When you try to uninstall Smart Security, you will realize that it might be quite complicated. It may prevent you from opening Task Manager and not let you remove it via Control Panel (simply because it won’t be listed there). This is why we advise that you enter Safe Mode with Networking before following Smart Security removal recommendations we have listed below.

Malware Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware

Malware Author: Unknown

Threat Level: Critical

Advice: Immediately remove and scan for additional malware

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Smart Security Screenshot:

How to remove Smart Security manually:
Manual removal of Smart Security 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\Desktop\Smart Security.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Smart Security
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Smart Security\Uninstall Smart Security.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Smart Security\Smart Security.lnk
• %Program Files%\Smart Security
• %Program Files%\Smart Security\SmartSecurity.exe
• %Program Files%\Smart Security\unins000.dat
• %Program Files%\Smart Security\unins000.exe

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

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Smart Security_is1
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “SmartSecurity”
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “SmartSecurity”

Please, be aware that manual removal of Smart Security 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 Security, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

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