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Warning, BrowserProtect has been found to be bundled with 3rd party software. If you have not purposefully installed this on your PC, you should be safe uninstalling it.
(Reported by 376 people)
How common is it?
Ranked #195

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BrowserProtect

What is BrowserProtect?

PerformerSoft BrowserProtect is a third party web browser add-in classified mostly as adware that used to be bundled with PerformerSoft products including PC Performer. The maker of this program is a known adware/malware distributor, so caution should be taken. The PerformerSoft BrowserProtect (Browser Manager) program classified mostly as exhibiting adware like actions, is bundled with PerformerSoft products including PC Performer. BrowserProtect is designed to protect its bundled programs and make sure they remain installed or unchanged by other thrid party programs. The BrowserProtect program was developed by Bit89 (Bit89.com) a known adware maker.

Various antivrius products detected the program and its executable as malware:
- VIPRE detects as Bprotector (fs)
- TrendMicro detects as ADW_BPROTECT
- Panda detects as Trj/OCJ.C
- ESET-NOD32 considers it a variant of Win32/bProtector.A
- AhnLab detects it as Adware/Win32.Bromngr
- Kaspersky as AdWare.Win32.Bromngr.b
- Jiangmin as AdWare/Bromngr.o

Variations of this are also installed through bundling as well with various freeware products under the names Browser Manager and Browser Protect.

About BrowserProtect (from Bit89 Inc)

“BrowserProtect keeps your browsers safe from homepage, search providers, extensions and other hijacks. Easy, comprehensive and FREE anti-hijack browser protection for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozi”
Warning, 10 anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in BrowserProtect.
       View detections

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.bit89.com/contact.html
Help link: www.bit89.com/uninstall.html
Installation folder: C:\ProgramData\browserprotect\2.5.986.67\{c16c1ccb-7046-4e5c-a2f3-533ad2fec8e8}
Uninstaller: "C:\ProgramData\BrowserProtect\2.5.986.67\{c16c1ccb-7046-4e5c-a2f3-533ad2fec8e8}\uninstall.exe" /Uninstall /{15D2D75C-9CB2-4efd-BAD7-B9B4CB4BC693} /su
Estimated size: 7.61 MB

Program filesFiles installed by BrowserProtect

Program executable:BrowserProtect.exe
Name:Application Manager
Signed by:Bit89 Inc.
Path:C:\ProgramData\browserprotect\2.5.986.67\{c16c1ccb-7046-4e5c-a2f3-533ad2fec8e8}\BrowserProtect.exe
MD5:3b2ddfabcc929174cd7212d11cef0e0e
The PerformerSoft Browser Manager (Application Manager) program classified mostly as exhibiting adware like actions, is bundled with PerformerSoft products including PC Performer. Browser Manager is designed to protect its bundled programs and make sure they remain installed or unchanged by other thrid party programs. The Browser Manager program was developed by Bit89 (Bit89.com) a know adware maker.
Additional files:
  • BrowserProtect.dll (by PerformerSoft) - Application Manager (Protector)
  • BrowserProtect.exe (by PerformerSoft)

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Windows service installed
  • BrowserProtect.exe runs as a service named BrowserProtect (Your browser protector service).
(Note, behavior information is not collected by the "Should I Remove It?" software.)

Program resource utilizationResource utilization averages

BrowserProtect.exe
Memory:3.43 MB
21.09 MB average
Total CPU:0.0001662613%
0.031193% average
Kernel CPU:0.00009147%
0.016088% average
User CPU:0.00007479%
0.015104% average
CPU cycles/sec:7,636,167
8,062,084 average
Switches/sec:12
70 average
I/O reads/min:18 Bytes
435.61 KB average
I/O writes/min:0 Bytes
105.02 KB average
(Note, resource data is not collected by the "Should I Remove It?" software.)
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 60%
Win 8 0%
  
HOW IT RUNS
Windows Service? Yes
(Installs a service)
  
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 88%
Keep it 12%

Windows OS versionsWhich Windows versions does it run on?

OS versionOS install distribution
Windows 7 73.20%
Windows XP 11.99%
Windows Vista 8.46%
Windows 8 6.32%
Windows Server 2003 0.03%

Distribution by countryWhich countries install it?

United States installs about 21.86% of BrowserProtect.

OEM distributionWhat PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?

PC ManufacturerOEM distribution
Hewlett-Packard 24.81%
Acer 19.04%
Dell 12.81%
ASUS 9.19%
Toshiba 7.07%
GIGABYTE 4.70%
Lenovo 4.70%
American Megatrends 3.63%
Sony 3.41%
Samsung 3.30%
Medion 2.26%
Intel 1.89%
Sahara 0.59%
Plus 1 more PC manufacturers

How do I remove BrowserProtect?

Quickly and completely remove BrowserProtect from your computer by downloading "Should I Remove It?", its 100% FREE and installs in seconds (click the button below).
Download "Should I Remove It?", it's FREE!Remove BrowserProtect from your computer.
Or, you can uninstall BrowserProtect from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program BrowserProtect, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove BrowserProtect.
  4. If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.
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About Bit89 Inc

Bit89 Inc. is the owner of Bit89.com, the maker and the developer of various advertising supported monitization software plugins used by companies such as PerformerSoft LLC, the maker of the PC Perfor

About (from Bit89 Inc)

“Welcome to the one stop for all your software download needs. Bit89 is a software development company, established in 2010. We develop software utilities, browser plugins, games and media tools, use”
Publisher URL: www.bit89.com

5 comments
santi•3 months ago
This program doesn't show in the uninstall utility of windows. I am sick of this program, I don't know how to remove it.
Question Mark•3 months ago
On Win XP the Windows task manager shows 2 instances of BrowserProtect.exe: User and SYSTEM. The user instance constantly generates a huge amount of page faults - although there is plenty of available RAM. Why?
karenRW (Expert)•2 months ago
I have recently noticed a folder called BrowserProtect. Not sure what it was I ran a virus scan with AVG and it reported that the file was infected and failed to remove. I then looked into the folder and one of the files was BrowserProtect.exe and an uninstall.exe. I then tried to uninstall using the uninstall.exe and it asked for permission to continue and i clicked yes, then nothing happened. After this I searched the web for information and came accross the website www.bit89.com which has an uninstall section and looking at it I had to download an uninstaller, nothing happened. My anti-virus then done its scheduled scan and when it got to the BrowserProtect folder AVG froze.
JK•2 months ago
Certainly malware. Hijacks browser searches and new tabs for all browsers.
Angeluz•2 month ago
It is a virus, please how uninstall the malware browserprotect?
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