Monday, October 19, 2015

How to Remove Smartshopsave.com (Search – SmartShopSave) Browser Hijacker?

Is your computer infected by smartshopsave.com? When your launch your internet browser, you find in you are in this suspected website rather your default home page? If you are find solutions for this troublesome browser hijacker, you might as well try the removal methods here.

What is smartshopsave.com?


Smartshopsave.com also known as smart shop save is a suspected search website that comes bundled with other software. It is usually incorporated into some software or small programs such as media players, download-managers, PDF creators, or game apps. If you install these kinds of software or programs without rejecting the additional bundles, you may install unwanted programs to your computer by default.




What are the problems brought by smartshopsave.com?


Smartshopsave.com is regarded as a nettlesome browser hijacker that can compatible with different kinds of web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Once installed, it will replace your browser default homepage and search engine without your permission. If you use this suspected search site for internet browsing, your search results will be altered and your browsing history and search queries will be collected and sent out to undesirable people. You may also find a lot of third party ads popping up or embedded onto your web pages. If you want to restore your web browsers and avoid further troubles, you should remove smartshopsave.com and the related programs from your computer immediately.

How to remove smartshopsave.com from your PC?


The following passages will guide you how to completely remove smartshopsave.com from your computer and restore your default settings.

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Method 1: Watch Relevant Removal Video for Help




Method 2: Manually Erase Smartshopsave.com from IE/FF/Chrome


Step 1: End suspicious process in Windows Task Manager.

Right click the blank Windows Taskbar and select Start Task Manager to open. If your IE is infected and stuck in Smartshopsave.com, you should end the main iexplorer.exe. FF and Chrome are respectively corresponding to firefox.exe and chrome.exe.





Step 2: Remove Bedidfbcif and ProPCCleaner from control panel.


Windows 8 & Windows 8.1

  1. Slide the mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of your screen.
  2. Click Settings on the Charm bar and go to Control Panel.
  3. Select Uninstall a program and remove unwanted program.
Windows Vista & Windows 7

  1. Open the Start menu and click Control Panel.
  2. Go to Uninstall a program and remove wanted program.
Windows XP


  1. Open the Start menu and navigate to Control Panel.
  2. Select Add or remove programs and uninstall unwanted program.

Step 3: Remove browser hijacker from your browser and restore changes.

Internet Explorer

1. Open Internet Explorer, then click on the gear icon (Tools for Windows XP users) at the top (far right), then select Manage add-ons.



2. From the Toolbars and Extensions tab, select suspicious toolbar and right click on the item and the click Disable.



3. On Search Providers, remove unwanted search provider from the list and enable the one you want.



4. Click the General tab and move to the Home Page. Overwrite/remove the Home Page URL and click OK.



5. Open Internet Explorer, then click on the gear icon (Tools for Windows XP users) at the top (far right), then select Internet Option > advanced > reset



Mozilla Firefox

1. Click on the button at the top right corner to open Menu > Add-ons > Extensions



2. Find suspicious related add-ons and delete them.




3. Simultaneously tap Alt+T keys and select Options. Click the General tab and move to the Home Page. Overwrite/remove the Home Page URL and click OK.



4. Open Firefox, press Alt + H, and select Troubleshooting Information > reset



Google Chrome.

1. Click on the Customize icon(wrench or 3 bar icon) next to the address bar and navigate to Tools > Extensions.



2. Find suspicious related add-ons and delete them



3. Move to Search and click Manage search engines…Click X on the URL of the search tool you want to remove. Click Done.



4. Select settings > advanced settings > reset


Step 4: Erase Smartshopsave.com from local disk.

Show hidden folder: start menu >> type 'folder options' and hit enter >> 'View' >> show hidden folder


Delete suspicious files from the folders below.

%AppData%\<random>.exe
%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

Step 5: Delete corrupted registry entries.

Press Win & R on your keyboard. Type 'regedit' and hit enter.


Click Edit > Find...


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm

After finishing all these steps, you may have already get rid of this browser hijacker. Good luck to you.

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