{"id":2120,"date":"2014-10-15T19:51:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T19:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:58","slug":"remove-browser-warden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-browser-warden\/","title":{"rendered":"Browser Warden Ads &#8211; Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to put up a short post before going back to programming. Today I wanted to talk about an <strong>adware<\/strong> called <strong>Browser Warden<\/strong> and give you some <strong>removal instructions<\/strong>. If the Browser Warden adware is installed on your machine, you&#8217;ll spot ads labeled <strong>Ads by Browser Warden<\/strong> in Google&#8217;s search results and a new add-on installed in Mozilla Firefox. You will also see banners tagged as &#8220;<strong>Ad by Browser Warden&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0injected into web pages. I&#8217;ll show how to remove Browser Warden in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ads-by-browser-warden.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2121 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ads-by-browser-warden.png\" alt=\"Ads by Browser Warden in Google's search results\" width=\"566\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ads-by-browser-warden.png 566w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ads-by-browser-warden-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ad-by-browser-warden.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2189 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ad-by-browser-warden.png\" alt=\"Ad by Browser Warden banner\" width=\"377\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ad-by-browser-warden.png 377w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ad-by-browser-warden-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Browser-Warden-1.0-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2122 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Browser-Warden-1.0-firefox.png\" alt=\"Browser Warden 1.0 in firefox's add-on menu\" width=\"378\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Browser-Warden-1.0-firefox.png 378w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Browser-Warden-1.0-firefox-266x300.png 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You will probably also see\u00a0browserwarden-a.akamaihd.net in the browser&#8217;s status bar:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browserwarden-a.akamaihd.net-status-bar.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browserwarden-a.akamaihd.net-status-bar.png\" alt=\"browserwarden-a.akamaihd.net status bar\" width=\"363\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browserwarden-a.akamaihd.net-status-bar.png 363w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browserwarden-a.akamaihd.net-status-bar-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BrowserWarden is <strong>bundled<\/strong> with a number of downloads. Bundling means that software is included in other software&#8217;s installers.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, you can avoid bundled software such as BrowserWarden by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer, but in this case I could not see any disclosure in the installer that bundled Browser Warden.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the scan results from <a title=\"How to upload and scan files at VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a>. It also shows that the signer is <strong>Gratifying Apps<\/strong>. <strong>GamePlayLabs<\/strong> is one of the detection names.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browser-warden-virustotal-report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browser-warden-virustotal-report.png\" alt=\"browser warden virustotal report\" width=\"774\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browser-warden-virustotal-report.png 774w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/browser-warden-virustotal-report-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to remove Browser Warden you can do so with the <a title=\"About the FreeFixer removal tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool. Just check the Browser Warden files as shown in the screenshots below. You might have to restart your computer to complete the removal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Browser-Warden-remove-firefox-add-on.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Browser-Warden-remove-firefox-add-on.png\" alt=\"Browser Warden remove firefox add-on\" width=\"389\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Browser-Warden-remove-firefox-add-on.png 389w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Browser-Warden-remove-firefox-add-on-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you to figure out how to do the removal.<\/p>\n<p>Do you also have Browser Warden on your computer? Any idea how it installed? Please share by posting a comment. Thank you very much!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to put up a short post before going back to programming. Today I wanted to talk about an adware called Browser Warden and give you some removal instructions. If the Browser Warden adware is installed on your machine, you&#8217;ll spot ads labeled Ads by Browser Warden in Google&#8217;s search results and a new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-browser-warden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Browser Warden Ads &#8211; Removal Instructions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5147,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}