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SmartBrowser
Overview
SmartBrowser is a pornography related toolbar with an
silent update feature.
"You grant Smart Sex Browser permission to add/remove features and/or functions
to the existing software and/or service, or to install new applications, at any
time, in its sole discretion with or without your knowledge and/or interaction.
By doing so, you agree to the terms of the new applications. You also grant Smart
Sex Browser permission to make any changes to the software and/or service provided
at any time."
Source
"Smart Sex Browser reserves the right to modify this license agreement at anytime without
notification. You agree that your continued use of the Software and/or Service following
any changes to this agreement and after the changes take effect will constitute your
acceptance of such changes."
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"In the event of dispute resolution between us concerning the software or
service or this agreement, you agree to pay all direct and/or indirect costs
arising out or related to the dispute, claim or controversy, including but
not limited to all legal costs, transportation, accommodation, telephone
calls. You also agree to pay Smart Sex Browser US$300 per hour to attend
dispute resolution events including transport time."
Source
Classification
Adware
End User License Agreement
2004-06-23
Files
BHO010~1.DLL
If you have any of the files related to SmartBrowser on your system,
please send them
for additional analysis. Generally, I have only analysed a
few versions for each software component listed at this web site. With your help I
will be able to look at both old and more recent versions of the SmartBrowser software.
Thank you very much for your time!
Log references
Log 519
Vendor
smart-browser.com
whois
End User License Agreement
2004-06-23
Detection
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner detects SmartBrowser.
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other potentially unwanted applications.
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Uninstall procedure
Uninstall SmartBrowser from "Add/Remove Programs" in the Windows® Control Panel.
Uninstall SmartBrowser with FreeFixer
I'm working on a general purpose tool for removing unwanted software.
The tool is called FreeFixer
and can help you remove unwanted Browser Helper Objects, Internet Explorer toolbars
and software that starts automatically when you reboot your computer, so it can offer some
assistance while uninstalling SmartBrowser. The manual removal instructions
listed below will help you to identify what to delete with
FreeFixer.
Read more about FreeFixer.
Manual removal
Please follow the instructions below if you would like to remove SmartBrowser manually. Please
notice that you must follow the instructions very carefully and delete everything that is mentioned. In most
cases the removal will fail if one single item is not deleted. If SmartBrowser remains on your system
after stepping through the removal instructions, please double-check by stepping through them again.
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Start the registry editor. This is done by clicking Start then Run.
(The Run dialog will appear.) Type regedit and click OK. (The registry editor will open.)
- Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Classes \ CLSID \ {00000185-B716-11D3-92F3-00D0B709A7D8}', if it exists.
- Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Classes \ CLSID \ {00000185-C745-43D2-44F1-01A1C789C738}', if it exists.
- Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Browser Helper Objects \ {00000185-B716-11D3-92F3-00D0B709A7D8}, if it exists.
- Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Browser Helper Objects \ {00000185-C745-43D2-44F1-01A1C789C738}, if it exists.
- Exit the registry editor.
- Restart your computer.
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Start Windows Explorer and delete:
%ProgramsDir%\SB\SMART-~1\BHO010~1.DLL
Note: %ProgramsDir% is a variable (?). By default, this is C:\Program Files.
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Contact information for SmartBrowser's vendor
In order to provide correct, accurate and updated information about SmartBrowser
I encourage the vendor to contact me if any part of this write-up
needs a revision.
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