BrowserSafeguard Adware Removal

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BrowserSafeguard claims to keep your system adware-free. It makes promises of maintaining your PC infection-free, and secure. Well, it doesn’t. Yes, its statements are grand. But, it’s all a lie. The irony is, the program is, itself, adware. It’s part of the notorious adware family, and it’s quite the menace. Apart from everything else, the tool puts you through, you face a privacy risk, as well. That’s right. The dangerous cyber threat jeopardizes your personal and financial information. It’s designed to. The program follows instruction to spy on you. It begins as soon as it invades. So, following its admission, your privacy is no longer safe. The application tracks your every online move, and records it. After it deems, it has collected enough data, it sends it. Oh, yes. It hands it over to the people that published it. In other words, cyber criminals with agendas. Are those the kind of people, you wish to allow into your private life? Do yourself a favor, and keep them as far away from it as possible. Don’t allow your private details to get stolen and exposed. Do NOT grant strangers with agendas power over you. The BrowserSafeguard program is NOT one to keep. It has no place on your PC. All, you can expect from its stay, is grievances and headaches. Do yourself a favor, and avoid that. Avoid the unpleasantness that follows the tool. Delete it as soon as you become aware of its existence. The sooner, the better.

How did I get infected with?

BrowserSafeguard slithers into your system via guile and finesse. It doesn’t only gain access. The tool gets you to approve its installment. Oh, yes. It tricks you into approving its admission, while keeping you clueless. You might wonder, how that’s even possible? How does an infection ask approval on its entry, and remain unnoticed? Well, simple. The tool doesn’t outright appear to ask if you give it the green light. To be straightforward in its advances, is too big of a risk. It leaves too much to chance. What if you reject it? So, instead of taking that gamble, the tool turns to trickery. It still seeks your permission. But it does it in the sneakiest way possible. For example, it turns to the old but gold means of infiltration. The infection oftentimes lurks behind freeware. It offers the easiest way into your PC. That’s because, most users don’t bother to be thorough, when installing freeware. Instead of doing their due diligence, they say YES to everything, and hope for the best. Do NOT make their mistake. Don’t trust naivety, haste, and distraction, over due diligence. Even a little extra attention goes a long way. Other common methods, the tool uses to invade, include the following. Hiding behind corrupted links or sites. Using spam email attachments as a shield to conceal its presence. Pretending to be a fake system or program update. Like, Java or Adobe Flash Player. There are many ways, the adware can use to fool you. It’s up to you NOT to allow that. Be vigilant enough to spot its deceit, and prevent its access. Caution goes a long way. Carelessness is a one-way street to infection. Make your choice.

Why is this dangerous?

BrowserSafeguard makes quite a few grand promises. It says, with its help, you enjoy an ad-free browsing. You no longer have to worry about getting redirected, or flooded with pop-up ads. The tool states, it blocks any “suspicious elements or content.” It prevents you “from accidentally visiting dangerous websites.” And, what a joy it would be, if that were true. But, the thing is, BrowserSafeguard doesn’t do any of it. Everything, it claims to do, is a lie. One, aimed to reel you in, so the tool can then exploit your naivety. Don’t let it succeed. If you allow the tool to stay on your system, you WILL regret it. There are no positives to come from it. All, it brings, is unpleasantness. It does everything, it claims to protect you from. Every time, you go online, it floods your screen with interference. You get bombarded with suspicious content. The tool redirects you to third-party pages. It bombards you with pop-up, in-text, and banner ads. It’s a mess. And, it doesn’t go free of consequences. These incessant intrusions leave their mark. Your system starts to suffer frequent crashes. Your computer’s performance slows down to a crawl. Don’t put up with any of it! Get rid of the nasty infection the first chance you get. Its prompt removal earns you the gratitude of your future self. Delays earn you nothing but regret. So, don’t delay. Act against BrowserSafeguard fast. Do it now!

How to Remove BrowserSafeguard virus

The BrowserSafeguard infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the BrowserSafeguard infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

STEP 1: Track down BrowserSafeguard in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate BrowserSafeguard startup location

STEP 3: Delete BrowserSafeguard traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down BrowserSafeguard in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate BrowserSafeguard startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean BrowserSafeguard virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

STEP 3 : Clean BrowserSafeguard traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the BrowserSafeguard by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

Step 4: Undo the damage done by BrowserSafeguard

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for BrowserSafeguard, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

You must clean all your browser shortcuts as well. To do that you need to

• Right click on the shortcut of your favorite browser and then select properties.

• in the target field remove BrowserSafeguard argument and then apply the changes.
• Repeat that with the shortcuts of your other browsers.
• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove BrowserSafeguard Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your system and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.