BrowseSmart is a PUP (or Potentially Unwanted Program) that comes and latches on to the most popular web browsers (Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer) in the form of an add-on. Its goal is to insert lots of advertisements with more or less attractive deals into the web pages that the user visits to push that infected user into clicking on them and therefore make money for its designers (Editor’s note: On the Internet, each click on an advertisements spells money).
This adware program doesn’t end up infecting your PC all on its own: BrowseSmart requires its victim’s help, which it will get but through trickery. Actually, cyber criminals create websites on their own, with content that is usually pretty popular, such as videos, for example: when a visitor wants to watch one, a fake alert is displayed, and asks the user to install an add-on on his or browser through deceptive strategies (i.e., installing an add-on to watch the video). If the user accepts, he or she installs a malware program unawares and directly into the browser. Other spyware designers prefer disguising their software program so that the user mixes it up with a well-known software program. Once the installation is complete, BrowseSmart becomes an add-on or independant software program on your machine.
Below you will find a method for removing BrowseSmart from your browser once and for all.
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