Delete BrowserSafeguard from Chrome/IE/Firefox

How to Remove BrowserSafeguard Completely

Brief Introduction of BrowserSafeguard

BrowserSafeguard is a common browser redirect virus which will distinctly and constantly pop up during browsing websites and other network activities. Surprisingly, this virus is compatible with different search engines, which is really a headache to most computer users. Worse still, it seems to be able to divide itself into many parts with different sizes and glue them firmly to some system files, so it would be more difficult to completely remove and clean up BrowserSafeguard at a time. 

It is known that BrowserSafeguard attempts to generate internet traffic for making money. Usually it will either frequently pop up many relevant ads or redirect you to those websites all the time. For escaping from its annoying interference, you may regularly or frequently change your search engine and browser. But no matter which search engine or browser you use, BrowserSafeguard can still disturb you and never leave you alone. 

Once it attacks your system, it will degrade your system functionality because indeed it keeps running a mass of programs in the background and loading lots of unknown information in your computer. The extensions and cookies of BrowserSafeguard could be used by cyber hackers for tracking computer users’ online activities to record valuable data for them. All in all, the right way to treat BrowserSafeguard is to quickly eliminate it from one’s computer.

Detailed Instructions to Manually Clean up BrowserSafeguard Completely

Step1-Remove add-ons related to BrowserSafeguard from all browsers

Internet Explorer

1) Open "Internet Explorer" -> click on "Tools" ->scroll down the list to find out and open "Manage Add-ons";

2) Carefully look for all add-ons for BrowserSafeguard in the window of "Manage Add-ons"  and disable them;

3) After that, you need to restart the Internet Explorer for saving the changes.

Mozilla Firefox

1) Open "Mozilla Firefox" -> click on "Add-ons" in the start page of Firefox;

2) Click on "Extensions" and find out any related extensions of BrowserSafeguard in the list -> click "Remove"; 

3) Click on "Plug-ins" -> look for all plug-ins associated with BrowserSafeguard in the list -> choose "Never Activate" on the right box

4) Then restart Mozilla Firefox to save all changes

Google Chrome

1) Open "Google Chrome" -> click on a wrench icon on the top right corner of the browser.

2) Click on "Tools" and scroll down the list to find "Extensions" and click on it

3) Find out extensions and add-ons of BrowserSafeguard in the showing web page and disable them

4) Then restart Google Chrome to save all changes

Step2-Reset browsers

 Internet Explorer

1) Start Internet Explorer,click on the gear icon at right top corner of the browser page then you will have the window of "Internet Options" 

2) Move to "Advanced tab", then click on "Reset".

3) Back to "Internert Option" and click on "General tab", type a new URL e.g www.google.com in the homepage box.

4) Atfer you done that, click "OK"  to save the changes

Mozilla Firefox

1) Start Mozilla Firefox ->click the button of Firefox menu at the top of the Firefox window. Place your mouse on the tab of "Help" and select "Troubleshooting Information".

2) Click the "Reset Firefox…" button in the upper-right corner of the Troubleshooting Information page.

3) To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens.

4) Firefox will close and be reset. When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.

Google Chrome

1) Start Google Chrome and click the Chrome menu  on the browser toolbar.

2) Select "Settings".

3) Click "Show advanced settings" and find the "Reset browser settings” section.

4) Click "Reset browser settings".

5) In the dialog box that appears, click "Reset".

Step3-Remove all related files of BrowserSafeguard from the computer

1) Click "Start" menu, then select "Control Panel" to open it.

2) Find out and click "Programs and Features"

3) Search for all programs and files of the BrowserSafeguard and its associated files in the programs list, select them and click "Uninstall".

4) Refresh the list to make sure all programs or files of BrowserSafeguard are completely uninstalled.

Conclusion

Many unwary computer users think that less-dangerous programs like BrowserSafeguard will not be harmful to their computers. Mostly, some computer users also think that it is harmless to recieve many pop-up advertisements while they are surfing the internet. But for keeping computer clean and safe and avoiding to be victims of unexpected losses, we suggest that computer users should deleteBrowserSafeguardas soon as possible with a removal tool.