The Smart Search (found at thesmartsearch.net) is an address configured as home page by a browser hijacker in many MAC since the beginning of 2015. A browser hijacker is responsible for changing our previous home page and search engine. If your browser (either Safari, Chrome, Firefox or IE) is showing thesmartsearch.net it has been hijacked. Some browser hijackers go beyond changing the browser parameters, they set in motion measures to make sure their parameters are configured after every restart. It doesn’t seem to be the case with thesmartsearch.net however, it looks like this one only changes the parameters once.
If your homepage has been modified, its only with money goals in mind. For thesmartsearch.net to be the homepage of millions of PCs will guarantee a huge amount of visits. All these visits will represent for them a good income.
Be very careful with what you download to your computer, always check the hosting sites, make sure they are safe or known… Avoid downloading cracks or anything available at the sames networks as those.
How to remove thesmartsearch.net ?
Remove thesmartsearch.net with AdwareMedic
AdwareMedic is a program dedicated to fighting adware. AdwareMedic can identify and remove malicious adware from your computer. When your computer becomes infected, AdwareMedic can provide the needed assistance to remove the infection and restore the machine back to optimum performance.
- Download AdwareMedic from the below button :
Download AdwareMedic - Double-click on AdwareMedic.dmg file and drag the AdwareMedic app (the blue, circular icon with the medical case in the middle) onto the icon for the Applications folder and release the mouse.
- Get the lastest Adware signatures, go to the Menu bar and select Scanner and then Update Adware Signatures.
- Click the Scan for Adware button to immediately scan your Mac for components of any known adware.
- After the scan finishes, if your system is clean, you will be told that nothing was found. Otherwise, a window will open showing the adware that was detected.
- The checkboxes allow you to specify which items are to be removed. (By default, only files that are definitively bad will be checked.) Clicking the Remove Selected button will remove any items that are checked, and will leave any that are not checked in place..
Reset your browser (if necessary)
If you still see traces of thesmartsearch.net after following all the steps above you can reset your browser performing this operation:
- Open Chrome.
- Click on the three stripes button in the right top corner.
- Select Settings.
- Scroll down to the end of the page, search for Show advanced settings.
- Scroll down once again to the end of the page and click Reset browser settings button.
- Click Reset once more.
- Open Firefox
- At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button.
- Go over to the Help sub-menu, then select Troubleshooting Information.
- Click the Repair Firefox button in the upper-right corner of the page.
- Firefox will automatically restart.
- Open your Safari web browser by clicking on the Safari icon in the dock.
- Click on Safari in your Safari menu, located at the top of your screen.
- A drop-down menu will now appear. Choose the option labeled Reset Safari....
- A warning dialog will now appear detailing the items that will be removed.
- Click the button on the dialog labeled Reset to complete the process.
- Your Safari browser will now restart automatically.
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