Easily Remove WhiteSmoke - Guide to Get Rid of WhiteSmoke Completely

Recently, WhiteSmoke appears as an extension on many computers. Used by cyber crooks to make money from online users, WhiteSmoke is able to affect Google Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari, and many other popular web browsers. Once getting into the target system, WhiteSmoke will hyperlink random words, create pop-ups, make the target PC slow and perform quite a lot of harmful tasks in the background.

You may suffer unwanted ads bombardments when you are surfing the internet. Ads by WhiteSmoke are always filled with junk links, clicking which may redirect you to suspicious websites. Moreover, WhiteSmoke sneakily makes some unauthorized modifications on your settings so as to put some spam links in the search results and navigate users to its sponsored websites.

Troubles by WhiteSmoke:

Computer would stuck at multiple tasks and run much slowly than before;
Page loading speed is much slower and the Internet connectivity is somehow unstable;
Ads by WhiteSmoke may start to pop up when you are browsing and they will increase in frequency;
Useless add-ons, extensions and toolbar application added by WhiteSmoke will come in your sight;
Wanted results may back to you if you hit back again;
Certain sites may be blocked and your homepage will not be changed back no matter what you have tried.

Guide to eliminate WhiteSmoke permanently

Method one: Automatically get rid of WhiteSmoke

Method two: Manually Remove WhiteSmoke

Method one: Automatically get rid of WhiteSmoke

To remove WhiteSmoke from your PCs, it is recommended to Download and install SpyHunter to detect and remove WhiteSmoke. SpyHunter is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using SpyHunter you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

 Step 1. Download SpyHunter by clicking the following download link:

Step 2. Double-click on the downloaded file. If asked to allow program to make changes to this computer, click “Yes” button.

Step 3. In this step, please accept the Licence Agreement and click “Next >” button.

Step 4. After the definition database is downloaded, system scan will automatically start.

Step 5. Remove WhiteSmoke and all other threats detected by SpyHunter.

 

Method two: Manually Remove WhiteSmoke

Step one: Stop WhiteSmoke running processes in the Task Manager.

Step two: disable any suspicious startup items that are made by WhiteSmoke.

Click Start menu ; click Run; type: msconfig in the Run box; click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility; Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step three: remove WhiteSmoke from browsers

For Google Chrome

 1. In the displayed URL field, type in chrome://extensions

2. Take a look at the provided extensions and take care of those which you find unnecessary (those related to WhiteSmoke) by deleting it. If you do not know whether one or another must be deleted once and for all, disable some of them temporarily.

3. Then, restart Chrome.

4. Optionally, you may type in chrome://settings in URL bar, move to Advanced settings, navigate to the bottom and choose Reset browser settings.

Step four: show hidden files and folders and delete harmful files of WhiteSmoke

Guide: click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it. In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

Delete all the following files:

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

Step five: open Registry Editor to delete all the registries added by WhiteSmoke

 Guide: open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter.)

Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ BrowserSafeguard \ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0

Note: Manually removal WhiteSmoke is a complex and tough task only suggested to advanced computer users. If you have not sufficient expertise on doing that, you may face risk of damaging the computer. In this circumstance, you are recommended to using Spyhunter Anti-malware to remove WhiteSmoke for you easily and quickly. Furthermore, you use Spyhunter to clean up unwanted files and optimize the computer.