If you recently installed software from such websites as or clicked an advertisement on a suspicious website, you may have contracted WhiteSmoke malware in efforts to monetize free online products and services. In most cases, WhiteSmoke Toolbar bundles with third-party items including freeware, shareware, and media related content such as codecs or torrents (but can also be downloaded from the website).
If you have fallen victim to symptoms of WhiteSmoke malware without consent, you may run into serious issues concerning your privacy. WhiteSmoke is often referred to as the WhiteSmoke virus, through this is not an actual computer virus because of symptoms victims have faced when manually and voluntarily installing this software or noticing that this software has installed without consent.
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Furthermore, WhiteSmoke Toolbar is known to install to computer systems as a browser helper object (BHO), add-on, and extension without permission. WhiteSmoke, via and other listed domain names is the distributor of WhiteSmoke “writing” software used to correct grammar and style that has proven to be problematic for many users. WhiteSmoke (and WhiteSmoke Toolbar) is potential malware, categorized as a browser hijacker that changes existing internet browser settings of popular internet browsers without consent, including the home page and default search engine, causing internet browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer to start-up on the WhiteSmoke search engine () and redirect to, ,, ask.com,, and other websites when attempting to search the internet or input a URL using the browser’s address bar.
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