Get Rid of SmoothBrowse Ads Step by Step

SmoothBrowse attaches to your browser without permission? It generates lots of ads on your PC screen? How to remove it from browser and stop those pop-ups completely?

Description of SmoothBrowse

SmoothBrowse is a browser extension providing you with lots of utilities for your online activities. Although it pretends to be a useful toolbar, in fact, it is a big threat to your computer. According to its damages, SmoothBrowse is defined as an adware virus. In the following part, we are going to talk about SmoothBrowse’s disadvantages.
First of all, it can hijack all popular web browsers, such as IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, via modifying related settings. Besides, all your search results will be rerouted to other similar websites. In order to reach the destination pages and get correct information, you have to try couples of times.
Furthermore, SmoothBrowse will display numerous annoying pop-up advertisements on your screen, which not only disturbs your surfing process, but also consumes lots of system resources. In addition, once SmoothBrowse is installed into your system, it will exploit a loophole, via which hackers can control your computer remotely and other malware can enter your computer. Therefore, due to its bad effects, it is urgent to you that remove SmoothBrowse out of the infected computer right now.

Screenshot of SmoothBrowse

Annoyances that are caused by SmoothBrowse:

1.SmoothBrowse virus will slow down your PC speed, so you cannot use your PC smoothly.
2.Lots of ads keep popping up when you surf the Internet.
3.SmoothBrowse virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.

Steps to remove SmoothBrowse virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of SmoothBrowse from Task Manager
To do this, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time to open the Task Manager. But you should know that the virus’s name may vary from one to other, so you should be careful.

2.Display all hidden files so as to remove SmoothBrowse's files
To show all hidden files from PC, please follow these steps:
①Click Start Menu and click Control Panel

②Click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options

③Go to View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and deselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

④Click OK
3.Remove all malicious files and keys from Registry Editor
To do this, you can click on Start Menu and click Run. When a dialogue pops up, you should type "regedit" in the box and click OK.

Then you will see the following Screenshot:

Now, please remove the following keys from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!

How to Open & Back up the Registry