Sometimes, Smart Mac Booster is distributed along with Mac File Opener app. Surely no modern user will deliberately download malicious software onto his computer, especially if it is distributed through dubious one-day websites, but a new generation of malware has learned to use new, not too obvious masking methods. In this tutorial, we provide you with detailed instructions to remove Smart Mac Booster and get rid of “smbstrhlpr” or “smbstruninstall” errors. But what really puts the program in a category of badware is, that if users try to uninstall it from Applications, it’ll either won’t allow them to do it by showing alerts and warnings or will leave residual persistent module, that will cause errors in macOS. When victims try to resolve the problems, the software offers to buy the license. In the end, the results are announced by the female computer voice. After infiltrating the system, the unwanted application initiates a quick scan and finds a huge amount of problems, that have to be fixed. Of course, a real system scan cannot be performed in any browser, this is just a pretext to get Smart Mac Booster installed on a Mac. It can be called an imposed application, as it is offered for download to users after an “in-browser” virus or error scan, that finds “severe issues”. Smart Mac Booster is fake anti-virus and optimization software for Mac. To stop this and remove the reason for such errors, please, use instructions on this page. Here is the screenshot of such a pop-up message. Report malware to apple to protect other users. This file was downloaded on an unknown date. "smbstruninstall" will damage your computer. In particular, the following messages are shown: After updating macOS to latest version (Catalina) users started receiving system errors related to files and processes of Smart Mac Booster: smbstrhlpr and smbstruninstall.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |