How to remove ThinkSmart

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 at 5:52 am
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ThinkSmart description

ThinkSmart is a fake anti-spyware program and it should be avoided at all costs. It is a clone of ThinkPoint malware.

Think Smart puts all the efforts into looking like a real malware remover. It displays computer scan, system check reports, infection warnings and similar alerts. All of those pop-ups are made up as ThinkSmart is not able to actually detect a thing. Do not trust ThinkSmart and do not pay for a fake program removing imaginary threats.

ThinkSmart loads large amounts of pop-ups but it may also interrupt normal use of a computer in other ways. It may disable real security applications along with systems tools such as the Registry Editor and the Task Manager.

ThinkSmart is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove ThinkSmart

To remove ThinkSmart spyware you must block ThinkSmart sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other ThinkSmart files and registry utility. Follow the ThinkSmart detection and removal instructions below.

The most typical software removal method is to remove ThinkSmart by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden ThinkSmart files, running processes and registries in your computer, so ThinkSmart may recreate all other files after reboot.

ThinkSmart manual removal instructions

Stop and remove ThinkSmart processes:
hotfix.exe
thinksmart.exe
antispy.exe
Read more how to kill ThinkSmart processes

Locate and delete ThinkSmart registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "hotfix.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = "%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\hotfix.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = "%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\thinksmart.exe"
Read more how to delete ThinkSmart registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by ThinkSmart

Detect and delete other ThinkSmart files:
%UserProfile%\Application Data\hotfix.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\thinksmart.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\antispy.exe

We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track ThinkSmart and automaticaly remove ThinkSmart processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.

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