How to remove Browsing Protection completely?

Know more about Browsing Protection

Browsing Protection is an ads-supported programs which can be classified as an adware . This adware is created by the creator to to generate advertisements on your browser such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. It claims that it can recognize online threats so you can browse safer and help prevent irreparable damage to your computer. However, it is not so beneficial.


Once your computer is infected with the Browsing Protection extension, it will add its codes and files to change your browser setting. It will replace your homepage and new tab stealthily without your permission. When you surf the Internet, Browsing Protection will Pop up automatically on your screen.

If you fall into trusting in what it says and install the Browsing Protection application, you will install other malicious adware as well. After the adware install successfully, you will find there are a lot of pop up ads on your browser. Some of the keywords will be underlined as your mouse move around, and then the Ads by Browsing Protection will be shown as boxes containing various coupons and banners. You will see there are many pop up ads with the label of “ads by Browsing Protection”, “brought by Browsing Protection”,etc.

The ads by Browsing Protection cannot be trusted since some hacked online store will be a phishing website to steal user’s money from their online bank account. Some pop up ads by Browsing Protection also may introduce web browser toolbars, browser hijacker, fake Java update, optimization utilities and other unwanted products to your computer. To protect your system from attacking by various trouble,you should remove Browsing Protection immediately. The below removal guide is for your reference.

Two effective methods to remove Browsing Protection permanently from your computer system

1. Remove Browsing Protection manually.
2. Remove Browsing Protection by using SpyHunter anti-malware.

Detail instruction:

Method one: Manually remove Browsing Protection

Step 1.Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by Browsing Protection

Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu→type msconfig in the search bar → open System Configuration →Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step 2. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.

(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
Step 3. Delete related malicious registry entries.

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )

Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
Step 4- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and Click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box and then click “delete”

Method two: Automatically get rid of Browsing Protection with Spyhunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow.

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool
Step three: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.
Step four: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.