Get Rid of/ Remove Sm8mS Pop-up Virus Completely from Browsers

Do you receive lots of ads from Sm8mS when surfing the Internet? Do you want to get rid of Sm8mS and stop those ads from popping up? If you don’t want to get interruption from Sm8mS, you should keep reading this post, which displays a step-by-step Sm8mS removal guide.

Description of Sm8mS

Sm8mS is classified as an unwanted adware which can target any kinds of browsers and display various pop-up ads. This malicious adware can spread through emails from suspicious resources, free programs downloaded from the Internet easily and hacked websites. Thus, as a PC user, you should keep careful when surfing the Internet.
If you are unlucky to be attacked by this adware, you will have to deal with a lot of troubles. For instance, it can redirect your webpage to some unwanted websites which may contain a lot of malicious links and ads. You are not appreciated to click on these links or ads, or you will create a chance for other malware. Consequently, your PC will fall into more dangerous situation. Mainly, it will pop up a lot of ads to attract more attention. Also, it displays some links to ask you something unwanted or malicious. This adware is created by hackers to get illegal profit. This adware and those ads it displays can take up a great amount of system resources and CPU usage, thus your PC will run slowly. You are recommended to remove it from your PC.

Screenshot of Sm8mS

Annoyances that are caused by Sm8mS:

1.Sm8mS 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.Sm8mS virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.

Steps to remove Sm8mS virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of Sm8mS 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 Sm8mS'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