Remove Smartinf.ru

Smartinf.ru is the URL address of a Russian website that installs itself as your homepage with the help of a Browser Hijacker. It’s called that because it “hijacks” your browser to change its configuration without asking any authorization from you.

Smartinf.ru gets installed usually after installing a freeware. This is why we always advice people to customize any install process started in their computers, this is the only way they can stop anything useless program trying to get quietly installed.

Smartinf.ru was developed to stop you from manually changing back your parameters. To achieve this task, a service or a process is created in Windows to make sure Smartinf.ru parameters will be set in place after every computer or browser restart.

Besides taking hold of your system without you being able to stop it, Smartinf.ru creators also will take advantage of you to make a lot of money through the incessant and huge amount of ads you’ll be forced to see coming from them. Don’t follow under any circumstance those ads, no matter how appealing they might seem… you could end up with bigger problems.

If you wish, and you probably do, to remove Smartinf.ru and recover your own homepage, follow and execute all steps on the guide presented below.

How to remove Smartinf.ru ?

Remove Smartinf.ru with ZHPCleaner

ZHPCleaner is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using ZHPCleaner you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.

• If Avast is installed on you computer you have to disable it during the process.
• You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
  Download ZHPCleaner
• Select ZHPCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
• Accept the user agreement.
• Click on the Scanner button.
• After the scan has finished, click on the Repair button.
• Reboot your computer.

Remove Smartinf.ru with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.

• Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
  Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection)
• Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
• Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
• If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Smartinf.ru.
• When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
• When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.

Reset your browser (if necessary)

If you still see traces of Smartinf.ru after following all the steps above you can reset your browser performing this operation:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer