SmartResultsRemote

SmartResultsRemote, also called SmartResultsRemote Search, is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP), which may cause some trouble for macOS users. However, this program is not unsafe in any way, and the worst that its installation can cause is to modify some of your Web browser's settings. The changes that SmartResultsRemote brings have one sole purpose – to get more traffic to 3rd-party search engines that the developers of SmartResultsRemote want to promote. It is very likely that the search engines in question will contain paid advertisements, and the revenue they generate goes to this PUP's creators.

SmartResultsRemote may be brought to your Mac computer via a free software bundle, a fake installer, or a bogus updater that you were prompted to download. This is why the installation of SmartResultsRemote may often occur without the user's knowledge, and they may have no idea why their Web browser is redirecting them to unknown search engines randomly.

If you are a macOS user, and your browser seems to be acting weirdly when it comes to online searches, then you should know that this issue might be caused by a 3rd-party PUP present on y our computer. The best way to identify and remove the intruder is to run a macOS-compatible security scanner.