What is SmarterMac?
SmarterMac adware is a deceptive application that persuades users in its practicality, nevertheless does more harm than good. After the installation the malware crawls into the browsers and changes their behavior, so that tons of ads would appear on top of the visited pages. The pop-ups will show goods from renowned shopping sites, discount coupons, and other tempting offers. Still, you should know that clicking these ads may lead to more serious infections. The reason for it is falsity of the ads sources, as none of them belongs to a online store, and they have such an appearance to lure victims to unpopular and malware-distributing sources. So, since the ads are blocking all the screen and hard to avoid, it’s better to remove SmarterMac adware as soon as possible.
How SmarterMac got installed on your computer?
The malware of this group typically travels through the method that is called bundling. It is used to spread the adware to more systems and to do it stealthily. SmarterMac is put into a setup of some application in the form of a harmless browser extension that is offered to be installed alongside with the main program. There may or may not be a notification about the presence of additional components, but if you see one, you need to search for their titles on the web and then deselect those that appeared to be a malware.
Symptoms of SmarterMac infection
- First and the most striking proof of what you have an adware is ads generated on pages where they haven’t appeared before. The ads can be of any type – pop-ups, in-text hyperlinks, banners and their amount increases on shopping sites. Some of them may be labeled as “Ads by SmarterMac”, “Brought by SmarterMac”, “Powered by SmarterMac”, etc.
- Another indicator of adware infection is appearance of new programs that you don’t remember installing and processes in start-up queue.
- Also, you may notice the significant slowdown in the system operating, since running of the applications required for adware activity may consume a lot of CPU.
- Besides slowing down the computer itself, adware infection may as well negatively affect the speed of Internet connection.
How to remove SmarterMac?
To make sure that the adware won’t appear again, you need to delete SmarterMac completely. For this you need to remove the application then check the drives for such leftovers as SmarterMac files and registry entries.
We should warn you that performing some of the steps may require above-average skills, so if you don’t feel experienced enough, you may apply to automatic removal tool.
Performing an antimalware scan with Norton Antivirus would automatically search out and delete all elements related to SmarterMac. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate SmarterMac, but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of SmarterMac manual removal
Uninstall SmarterMac from the system
As it was stated before, more likely that the adware appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of SmarterMac you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
How to remove SmarterMac from Mac
- Open a Finder window
- Click Applications line on the sidebar
- Select the application related to SmarterMac right-click it and choose Move to Trash
Remove SmarterMac from browsers
Since most of adware threats use a disguise of a browser add-on, you will need to check the list of extensions/add-ons in your browser.
How to remove SmarterMac from Safari
- Start Safari
- Click on Safari menu button, then go to the Extensions
- Delete SmarterMac or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove SmarterMac from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete SmarterMac or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove SmarterMac from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete SmarterMac or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
If the above-mentioned methods didn’t help in eliminating the threat, then it’s better to rely on an automatic way of deleting SmarterMac.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after SmarterMac removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among system files and registry entries that can recover SmarterMac.
