Remove Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA—Permanently Get Rid of Computer infection

When people shop online, they are always eager for various discount coupons and deals to save some money. Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA takes advantages of this psychology and has successfully tricked many inexperienced computer users to install it into their PC by claiming to display discount coupons and comparing prices between different shopping websites which can help people save a lot of time and money.

However, when Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA enters into the PC, it does more malicious things than just displaying ads.  It will add some items to the startup menu which can make it get started automatically when users boot the infected PC.
It also degrades the whole PC performance by eating up a lots of system resources in the background. The slow and sluggish performance frustrates the compromised user so much as it takes too much time for them to perform even the basic operations, and sometimes blue screen to death come out when users want to run some heavy applications. In a word, the PC performance is extremely hindered due to the presence of Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA.

At the same time, Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA is totally sufficient to get attached with almost all type of existing web browser like Opera mini, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and many more. And then it will keep track of the browser history and collect search terms. As a result, it is no wander why the pop-up ads are so match to the users’ interests.

What’s worse, Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA also provides a platform to its originator to remotely access infected machine. At this time, as an infected computer owner, you should pay more attention to the confidential information on your PC.

All in all, Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA can not be stayed in the PC any longer. Follow the manual removal method as below to remove it as soon as possible from your PC.

Method one: Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA manual removal guide

Step 1: stop all the running processes about Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA
Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Task Manager. Click on the Processes tab, and search for S Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA process, then click End Process key.

Step 2: Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files about Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA
Click the Start button choose Control Panel, find out Appearance and Personalization, and then click Folder Options and choose the View tab. Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

Clean all the malicious files about about Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA as below:
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\
%AppData%[ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA]toolbardtx.ini
%AppData%[ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA]toolbaruninstallIE.dat
%AppData%[ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA]toolbarversion.xml
%USERPROFILE%\temp\ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA.exe
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA.net
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\temp Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA.exe

Step 3: delete all the registry entries of about Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA
Press Window+R keys together. In the dialogue box that pop-up, type into Regedit and press OK. Find out the malicious registry entries of about Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA in Registry Editor and delete all of them.

•HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA \DisplayIcon %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe,0
•HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA
•HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA \UninstallString “%AppData%[RANDOM CHARACTERS][RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
•HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\[RANDOM CHARACTERS] %AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
•HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA \ShortcutPath “%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” -u
•HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA \DisplayName Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.

Method two: Automatically remove Adware/WhiteSmoke.BAwith Spyhunter antivirus software:

 

Step 1: click the icon below to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter

 

 

Step 2: follow the instructions to install SpyHunter

 

 

Step 3: run SpyHunter to automatically detect and uninstall Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA

 

Summary: Due to the changeable characters of Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA, you cannot be too careful to distinguish the harmful files and registries from the system files and registries. If you have spend too much time in manual removing Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA and still not make any progress, you can download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove Adware/WhiteSmoke.BA automatically for you.