Remove Smiley Central
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Smiley Central is an Internet Explorer plugin that allows you to add numerous smiley faces to your email or instant messages. It is part of the Fun Web Products suite of utilities such as Cursor Mania, My Mail Stationary, My Mail Signature, PopSwatter, Popular Screensavers, Webfetti, and the My Way website portal. Although none of these products claim to be spyware, they do slow your computer down. All of the products use cookies to track usage, although they claim not to use cookies or anything else to track personally identifiable information.
That being said, I would still recommend uninstalling the SmileyCentral software and other Fun Web Products if you feel your computer runs better without them. They are found by many spyware removal tools such as Spybot Search and Destroy, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, although they are deemed spyware safe by other programs.
If you run Hijackthis, you'll also notice the following lines that have been added:
R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - {00A6FAF6-072E-44cf-8957-5838F569A31D} - C:Program FilesMyWebSearchSrchAstt1.binMWSSRCAS.DLL
O2 - BHO: MyWebSearch Search Assistant BHO - {00A6FAF1-072E-44cf-8957-5838F569A31D} - C:Program FilesMyWebSearchSrchAstt1.binMWSSRCAS.DLL
O2 - BHO: mwsBar BHO - {07B18EA1-A523-4961-B6BB-170DE4475CCA} - C:Program FilesMyWebSearchbar1.binMWSBAR.DLL
O4 - HKLM..Run: [MyWebSearch Email Plugin] C:PROGRA~1MYWEBS~1bar1.binmwsoemon.exe
O4 - HKCU..Run: [MyWebSearch Email Plugin] C:PROGRA~1MYWEBS~1bar1.binmwsoemon.exe
O4 - Startup: MyWebSearch Email Plugin.lnk = C:Program FilesMyWebSearchbar1.binMWSOEMON.EXE
O4 - Global Startup: MyWebSearch Email Plugin.lnk = C:Program FilesMyWebSearchbar1.binMWSOEMON.EXE
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Search - http://bar.mywebsearch.com/menusearch.html?p=ZSYYYYYYYYUS
How to Remove Smiley Central?
First, uninstall Smiley Central from Add/Remove Programs
Click on Start, Settings, Control Panel
Double click on Add/Remove Programs
Find "My Web Search (Smiley Central)" in the list of installed programs and click on Change/Remove to uninstall it. You may also want to uninstall any of the following items associated with FunWebProducts.
* My Web Search
* My Way Speedbar (Smiley Central or other FWP as applicable)
* My Way Speedbar (AOL and Yahoo Messengers) (beta users only)
* My Way Speedbar (Outlook, Outlook Express, and IncrediMail)
* Search Assistant - My Way
Reboot your Computer and run HijackThis
With HijackThis, scan for and fix any of the entries shown above that may be remaining.
Next, open My Computer, Drive C, and double-click on the Program Files folder
Right-click and delete the folders for:
* FunWebProducts
* MyWebSearch
Smiley Central should now be completely uninstalled from your computer.
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