Get Rid of Browser Protect Virus

Is Browser Protect a virus?

Browser Protect is manifested as a malicious application, which is able to affect browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari once it is executed. In general, Browser Protect is likely to deceive you that it can protect your browsers and prevent infections invading. However, what it claims is totally fake. Once Browser Protect is installed, it corrupts your system and messes up browsing activities via various ways. First of all, Browser Protect alters the browser settings and hijacks you to other suspicious websites randomly. Then the homepage will be replaced by its own website. And every time you go to search for something, you will be redirected to other unwanted websites. Furthermore, Browser Protect slows down the system operation, which leads to browser crash all the time. Besides, many ads will keep popping up on the screen, which annoys you a lot. In a word, Browser Protect can cause a great deal of trouble to you, so you ought to remove it as soon as possible.

 

How to Remove Browser Protect virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Browser Protect Hijacker virus, you can go through the listed removal steps CAREFULLY.

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Browser Protect Hijacker redirect problem

2. After that, for IE users, you need to go to "Manage Add-ons" to uninstall bad add-ons if there is any.

For Chrome users, you need to open "Settings" and delete Browser Protect Hijacker from your start page and search engine

For Firefox users, you can go to "Add-ons" and remove its malicious toolbars and revert your default start page and new tab page.

3. There are many things to do if you want to manually get rid of Browser Protect Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ESENT\Process\Smartbar.Mini

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.

%AppData%\ Browser Protect \ Browser Protect [3 digit number].exe

%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\[random]

Be known that Browser Protect Hijacker is very cunning and can change its file locations anytime. So please CAREFULLY edit your registry and delete its files.

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