What is Trojan.Gen.SMH? - How to remove it?

Help! I've got this Trojan.Gen.SMH virus and I don't know how to remove it. The infection alert keeps popping up from my antivirus software. But I tried use it to eliminate the virus but it failed. The infected files cannot be deleted. I did try some other different programs but they turned out to be in vain too. What can I try to remove the virus completely?

What is Trojan.Gen.SMH?

Trojan.Gen.SMH is mainly designed to steal confidential and private information like credit card passwords or other accounts’. It may be detected by antivirus programs but it is definitely can’t be removed by any antivirus program since it is specially progammed to avoid delection. It has sophisticated self-defence like injecting its own code into the processes of other programs or in some variants to enable themselves to launch their attacks without any interference for your PC’s basic security features. When you see those horrible alerts, you must be very nervous and vexatious. There are many alerts imply your computer is infected with dangerous viruses. Next Trojan.Gen.SMH claims to help you remove all the threats in your computer. However, it is Trojan.Gen.SMH itself that bring in the real danger and damages to your computer. It can change Windows Explorer settings to download other malicious files from external servers. Have you ever seen such an irksome infection before? It is extremely important to drop everything that you are doing and to concentrate entirely on removing it from your machine. Many people who get infected such virus may don't understand how they get infected; they don’t do anything but just browse some websites. They don’t know that when they browse websites the Trojan.Gen.SMH virus can access their PCs silently without your attention. The virus may hide in some unsafe sites that it will create a route to enter into people's PC. Get it off your computer ASAP.

Trojan.Gen.SMH Purpose People now knowing about the dangers and harms by Trojan.Gen.SMH want to know why virus like it keep attacking computers. The answer is simple and clear-cut. Cyber criminals live on creating virus. In other word, virus like Trojan.Gen.SMH attack computers for money. But how it gets money? Read and record system configuration and find out the vulnerability/bug/loophole/backdoor, then resell such information to other virus makers who want to attack as more computer as possible without too much effort. Use JS technology to get log-in credentials and use such information to spread its vicious code in unauthorized way to all contacts for wider spread, then earns money in another way round. If Trojan.Gen.SMH’s maker is black hearted enough, victims’ hard-earned money will be emptied out in a blink of an eye. Use backdoor to alleviate the installation of other infections made by cooperators for profitable commission. 1.Reboot the PC and keep pressing F8 key on the keyboard upon PC startup but before logging in. Hit the arrow keys to choose “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then tap Enter key to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

2.Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

3.Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4.Open Registry entries. Search malicious files and registry entries related to Trojan.Gen.SMH and then remove all of them.

5.Clean your Browser using RegistQuick Malware like the other virus very often add or left temporary files, malicious cookies, Index.dat files and other useless stuffs in the browser that degrade its performance considerably. Not only that, some also modify browser settings which are really hard to revert manually. That's the reason why it is advised that you clean your browser to enhance productivity once you have deleted the targeted malware from your PC. And for that nothing is better than RegistQuick, which is really very effective and cleans all the left over and unwanted stuffs related to browser. So, just download and install this advanced utility and clean your PC browser instantly. Here is the user guide for your help – Download and Install RegistQuick. Now, start the application and click on Cleaner > Windows or Applications tab and hit Analyze button to examine the health of the browser.

Once analyzing finishes, click Run Cleaner button to clean the browser. Note: You can also clean & optimize your Windows Registry as well using this sophisticated utility.

In conclusion

Trojan.Gen.SMH is a dangerous computer Trojan house virus. It targets on computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 8. Cyber hackers can use many mean methods to spread it to innocent computers, mainly from the Internet. Once it is activated on the infected computer, it can damage the system by corrupting system files and occupying a lot space of the hard drive. It is not easy for auto anti-virus program to remove it completely.