Remove Smart Protector - Smart Protector Removal Information

Smart Protector is new rogue antispyware application which is promoted via Trojan horses and fake online antimalware scanners. Important thing that you must know about Smart Protector from the beginning is that its database is absolutely empty even after purchasing full version for about 50$. What does it mean? Smart Protector is absolutely useless piece of software developed with one purpose – to steal money from simple-hearted computer users who care about computer security. Once inside and active, Smart Protector will be configured to start automatically every boot up. While running Smart Protector will constantly perform full system scans and list you variety of infections that cannot be removed until you first purchase licensed version. Moreover, Smart Protector will flood your system with fake security alerts and pop-ups. In that way Smart Protector can dramatically slow your computer performance by using too much system recourses. We recommend you to remove Smart Protector manually or using automatic removal tool.

Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown
Threat Level: Critical
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Smart Protector Automatical Removal Tool

How to remove Smart Protector manually:

It's possible to remove Smart Protector manually, but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.

The files to be deleted:

c:\Program Files\Smart Protector
c:\Program Files\Smart Protector\config.cnf
c:\Program Files\Smart Protector\mainbase.adb
c:\Program Files\Smart Protector\q.adb
c:\Program Files\Smart Protector\queue.vdb
c:\Program Files\Smart Protector\smartprotector.exe
c:\Program Files\Smart Protector\uninstall.exe
c:\Program Files\Smart Protector\virusbase.adb
c:\Program Files\Smart Protector\quarantine
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\Drivers
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\internet.dll
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Smart Protector.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Smart Protector
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Smart Protector\Smart Protector.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Smart Protector\Uninstall.lnk

Remove registry entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Smart Protector
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Smart Protector
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Class\{4D36E96E-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\S
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "smartprotector"

Please be careful because manual removal of Smart Protector may seriously damage operational system and sensitive data. Also there is a big possibility of incomplete removal, because some files could be hidden and program could re-install itself after you delete files and registry entries. So we strongly recommend you to use automatical removal tool.