{"id":4161,"date":"2015-01-30T10:16:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T10:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2015-01-30T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T10:16:41","slug":"remove-assets-manager-by-aztec-media-inc-smdmfservice-exe-and-smdmfmgrc3-cfg-removal-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-assets-manager-by-aztec-media-inc-smdmfservice-exe-and-smdmfmgrc3-cfg-removal-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Assets Manager by Aztec Media Inc – SmdmFService.exe and smdmfmgrc3.cfg Removal Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just wanted to put up a short post before going back to programming. Today I wanted to talk about a called Assets Manager<\/strong> and thought I should give you some removal instructions<\/strong>. Assets Manager appears to be a variant of Settings Manager<\/strong><\/a> that I blogged about previously. If the Assets Manager is running on your computer, you’ll find SmdmFService.exe<\/a> running in the Windows Task Manager.\"SmdmFService<\/a><\/p>\n

You will also see folder such as smdmf and Assets Manager created:<\/p>\n

\"Assets<\/a><\/p>\n

You will also see a driver added called\u00a0smdmfmgrc3.cfg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll show how to remove Assets Manager in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/p>\n

Assets Manager is bundled<\/strong> in other software’s installers. I found it in a program used to download movie clips.<\/p>\n

When I find some new bundled software I usually upload it to VirusTotal<\/a> to test if the anti-malware tools there find anything. 28% of the scanners detected the file. Baidu-International classifies Assets Manager as Adware.Win32.SearchSuite.BQ<\/strong>, BitDefender detects it as Adware.Linkey.B<\/strong>, ClamAV classifies it as Win.Adware.Bandoo<\/strong>, Emsisoft reports Adware.Linkey.B (B)<\/strong>, F-Prot detects it as W64\/SearchSuite.A.gen!Eldorado<\/strong>, F-Secure reports Adware.Linkey.B<\/strong> and Sophos calls it SearchSuite<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"smdmfmgrc3.cfg<\/a><\/p>\n

Removing Assets Manager<\/strong> is straightforward with FreeFixer<\/a>. Just select the Assets Manager items for removal and then click the Fix button and the problem will be solved.<\/p>\n

\"Assets<\/a> \"Assets<\/a> \"Assets<\/a><\/p>\n

Hope this helped you solved the Assets Manager problem.<\/p>\n

Did you also find Assets Manager on your machine? Any idea how it was installed? Please share by posting a comment. Thanks!<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading and welcome back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just wanted to put up a short post before going back to programming. Today I wanted to talk about a called Assets Manager and thought I should give you some removal instructions. Assets Manager appears to be a variant of Settings Manager that I blogged about previously. If the Assets Manager is running on your … Continue reading Remove Assets Manager by Aztec Media Inc – SmdmFService.exe and smdmfmgrc3.cfg Removal Guide<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}