Remove ProtectedBrowsing Pop-up Virus Step by Step

ProtectedBrowsing displays lots of ads on Your PC screen during your online activities? It pops up every now and then to claim that it can protect your browser well? If you are annoyed by those ads promoted by ProtectedBrowsing, you can read this post and follow the steps to clean them up.

Description of ProtectedBrowsing

ProtectedBrowsing is a big threat to all PC users for it can do harm to all target computers severely. In reality, it has been labeled as a vicious adware virus that can attack browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and other famous web browsers. Hence, you should be careful if you don’t want to get involved with this hijacker virus.
Usually, ProtectedBrowsing is spread via some free programs and malicious websites. So it is very easy for users to get infected if they always download suspicious programs from unsafe websites. If your computer is infected by ProtectedBrowsing virus, you home page will be changed automatically and you won’t be able to change it back to google.com or other favorite sites. Moreover, it is very likely that many system settings will be modified by this virus as well. Due to this, some of your system functions will be disabled and the Windows will run strangely and respond abruptly. Apart from that, you will be blocked by tons of commercial ads when you browse online. And it will endanger your computer if you click on those popups mistakenly. All in all, to experience a good surfing and protect your computer, you must delete ProtectedBrowsing redirect virus without any hesitations.

Screenshot of ProtectedBrowsing

Annoyances that are caused by ProtectedBrowsing:

1.ProtectedBrowsing virus will slow down your PC speed, so you cannot use your PC smoothly.
2.Lots of ads keep popping up when you surf the Internet.
3.ProtectedBrowsing virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.

Steps to remove ProtectedBrowsing virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of ProtectedBrowsing from Task Manager
To do this, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time to open the Task Manager. But you should know that the virus’s name may vary from one to other, so you should be careful.

2.Display all hidden files so as to remove ProtectedBrowsing's files
To show all hidden files from PC, please follow these steps:
①Click Start Menu and click Control Panel

②Click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options

③Go to View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and deselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

④Click OK
3.Remove all malicious files and keys from Registry Editor
To do this, you can click on Start Menu and click Run. When a dialogue pops up, you should type "regedit" in the box and click OK.

Then you will see the following Screenshot:

Now, please remove the following keys from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!

How to Open & Back up the Registry