How to Remove Search.Whitesmoke.com from (IE/Chrome/Firefox)

Techexpert

11 years ago

Question

I can’t Remove Search.Whitesmoke.com please help me how to get rid of Search.Whitesmoke.com ?

Solved Answer

Search.Whitesmoke.com is an adware program. It’s really very hard to remove because it is a very bad Browser re-directer. In order to remove it you have follow below mentioned instructions correctly. Please leave your Feedback after solved your issue at www.techsupportall.com/feedback.

Search.Whitesmoke.com is also categorised as a dangerous browser hijacker and computer infection. It comes into your computer with free software packages without user permission. It is an ad-supported search engine. It can hijack your all popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google. Chrome, Safari etc.

Once Search.Whitesmoke.com is installed into your computer, you can be found lots of unwanted changes in your internet and browser settings like change your homepage and default search engine into Search.Whitesmoke.com and also install a WhiteSmoke toolbar. Your computer and internet perform very slow than before. Many unwanted advertising & pop ups are appearance on your computer screen. Lots of unfamiliar plugins are installed with your web browsers without your permission. it may be damaged your browser.

Search.Whitesmoke.com comes into your computer with free software packages and when you visit on unfamiler and suspicious websites. So you should always pay attention, when you download a free software from internet. Be very careful what you agree to install. You should download any software from their official website.

Search.Whitesmoke.com is not a virus in technical terms, however it’s categorised as a browser hijacker (Adware), “PUP” (Unwanted programs). Because anyone never wants to install Search.Whitesmoke.com directly, usually it installs additionally with another software packages.

So you should remove Search.Whitesmoke.com from your computer immediately, otherwise you may be got damaged your web browsers or their important settings. In order to remove Search.Whitesmoke.com from your computer, you have to follow article steps very carefully.

Steps

1.To Uninstall Search.Whitesmoke.com from computer

Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel.
Now click on Programs –> Program and Features –> Uninstall a program (Wind7, 8, Vista).

For Windows XP users click on Add/Remove Programs.

You will get a window which have listed all the installed programs.
Uninstall Search.Whitesmoke Toolbar and most of recently unwanted programs, if you find any from below list (Suspicious Programs list). Because all these programs are unwanted. You should uninstall all them immediately.

Suspicious Programs list

Search.Whitesmoke Toolbar
Browser defender
Browser protect
Browser protected by conduit
Delta search, Babylon
LessTabs
WebCake 3.0
Yealt
LyricsContainer
VideoSaver
AddLyrics
privacy safe gaurd
unfriend checker
Price peep today
Coupon amazine
TidyNetwork.com
DownloadTerms 1.0
Yontoo
Uninstall all the unwanted programs, which are not listed here.

Automatic Fixit

Download Adware Remover Tool v3.9 to remove Search.Whitesmoke.com Automatically from all of you browsers, This is a Freeware utility specially deigned for Adware Removal. This tool can remove adware from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla Firefox and their registry as well..

Adware-Removal-Tool-v3.9.exe

2. To Remove Search.Whitesmoke.com from Internet Explorer

Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab. Now look into under HOME PAGE Edit Box you got www.Search.Whitesmoke.com, replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
Now Restart Internet explorer

Remove Search.Whitesmoke.com from registry

Click on Start and type Run and then type “REGEDIT” in the run box and then hit enter
In the registry editor go to Edit menu and then click on find option, you will get edit box to search any string to registry editor
Type in the find edit box “Search.Whitesmoke.com” and click on Find Next
The search result will highlighted that key which have the same string
Edit that key and change the “Search.Whitesmoke.com” string to “google.com“
Use F3 key to find Next, Replace all them to “google.com”
Then Restart the internet explorer

Reset Internet Explorer

Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (If tools menu doesn’t appear then press “F10” key once to active the menu bar), click on Internet Option. A internet option window will open.
For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon . Then click on tools.

Click on Advanced tab, then click on RESET button.
Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button on that. (As shown on below screenshot)

Now you will appear a popup says that complete all the tasks. After completion click on close button.

3.To Remove Search.Whitesmoke.com from Mozilla Firefox

Open Mozilla Firefox, Click on Tools menu (press “alt” key once to active menu bar) then go to Options, after that a configuration page will be opened, then click on General tab and then look on the very first section named as Startup. Under Startup you will see a HOME PAGE Edit Box, under this edit box you will see www.Search.Whitesmoke.com, please replace it to www.google.com, then click on apply and close.
Restart Firefox Browser

Remove Search.Whitesmoke.com from Firefox configuration file.

In the Firefox type this command in the address bar “about:config” and then hit enter to open this page
After that you will get a page which is asking for permission to open config page that confirm that please use it carefully so please click on button named as “I’ll be carefully, I promise“.
Now you will a configuration page with search option on the top, so please type “Search.Whitesmoke.com” into search bar, you will get the result.
Replace all the string from “Search.Whitesmoke” to “google”
In the search result do double click on the all entries (related to Search.Whitesmoke.com) one by one, and change them to “google.com”
You can Right click on found results one by one and choose RESET option.

Reset Mozilla Firefox

Open “Troubleshooting information” page into Firefox.
Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “alt” key once to active Menu bar)
Note: you can also open this page in this ways, open Firefox then type this command in the address bar “about:support” (without quote) and then hit enter or OK.
Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information”
You will get a page “Troubleshooting information”, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
Click on Reset Firefox option, It will take time to reset

4. To Remove Search.Whitesmoke.com from Google Chrome

Remove unwanted homepage & search engine from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.
Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on their Set Pages. A another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.

In the same configuration page click on Manage search engines button. Delete all the search engines from there, just keep only www.goole.com as your default search Engine.

Remove unwanted extensions from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions. (As shown on below screenshot)

You will get a configuration page. which have installed all the extensions, Remove Search.Whitesmoke extension & also remove all the unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon (as shown on screenshot)

Reset Google Chrome

Close all Google Chrome browser
Now open this following path
- Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) , then you will get Run box.
- Copy and Paste this following command in this Run box then hit Enter or OK
- Windows XP
  %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
- Windows 7, 8, Vista
  %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
In the default folder please find a file named as “Preferences“ and now just need to rename this file from “Preferences“ to “Preferences.old“
In the same default folder please find a one more file named as “Web Data“ and now just need to rename this file from “Web Data“ to “Web Data.old“
Now Start your Google chrome.

5. To remove Search.Whitesmoke.com registry entries with Adwcleaner.exe

Here is the proper step-by-step guide to remove any adware from registry, please follow the steps.

5.1 : Download AdwCleaner from the below link.

Click Here to Download: Adwcleaner.exe

5.2 : Run that downloaded file (Adwcleaner.exe).

5.3 : When you get it started, click on scan button to search the Search.Whitesmoke.com files and registry entries (As shown below screenshot).

5.5 : When scanning process will be finished, click on Clean button to delete all the Search.Whitesmoke.com files and registry entries (as shown on below screenshot)