Monday, July 22, 2013

Get Rid of Isearch.whitesmoke.com Virus



Is Isearch.whitesmoke.com a virus?

Isearch.whitesmoke.com is defined as a tricky browser hijacker infection, which has claimed to attack as many vulnerable computers as possible for malicious purposes. By using illegal ways, Isearch.whitesmoke.com is able to intrude into your system without any knowledge or consent. Once this hazardous virus infects your machine, you will encounter some troubles when surfing the Internet. For instance, some unknown ads are popping up from nowhere to disturb you a lot, which can block you from using the Internet normally. Moreover, your browser settings will be modified slightly and you won’t expect you have any notification until your browser is hijacked to some unwanted websites repeatedly. Besides, the worst thing is that Isearch.whitesmoke.com will redirect your search results to undesired sites all the time. It means that you cannot do some searching for some information like you usually do before. By the way, when you homepage is substituted by Isearch.whitesmoke.com, it is another symptom shows that your machine is infected by this risky virus. Now, all you need to do is to take action to delete this virus from your machine forever.


  


How to Remove Isearch.whitesmoke.com virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Isearch.whitesmoke.com Hijacker virus, you can go through the listed removal steps CAREFULLY.

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Isearch.whitesmoke.com Hijacker redirect problem

2. After that, for IE users, you need to go to "Manage Add-ons" to uninstall bad add-ons if there is any.

For Chrome users, you need to open "Settings" and delete Isearch.whitesmoke.com Hijacker from your start page and search engine

For Firefox users, you can go to "Add-ons" and remove its malicious toolbars and revert your default start page and new tab page.


3. There are many things to do if you want to manually get rid of Isearch.whitesmoke.com Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.

%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe 

%WINDOWS%\System32\Drivers\mrxsmb.sys

Be known that Isearch.whitesmoke.com Hijacker is very cunning and can change its file locations anytime. So please CAREFULLY edit your registry and delete its files.


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