{"id":4045,"date":"2015-01-22T09:42:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:01","slug":"how-to-remove-the-browse-pax-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/how-to-remove-the-browse-pax-adware\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove The Browse Pax Adware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from a snowy Stockholm. Was reviewing some of the files added to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/\">this web site<\/a> and found a new <strong>adware<\/strong> named <strong>Browse Pax<\/strong>. Browse Pax appears to be a variant of <strong>BrowseFox<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual when I run into some new software I uploaded it to <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a> to see if the anti-virus software there find anything interesting. 22 of the 56 antivirus scanners detected the file. Some of the detection names for Browse Pax are <strong>Adware.SwiftBrowse.CH<\/strong>, <strong>GrayWare[NetTool:not-a-virus]\/Win64.NetFilter.a<\/strong>, <strong>Tool.NetFilter.313<\/strong>, <strong>a variant of Win64\/BrowseFox.CG<\/strong>, <strong>W64\/A-59c9c70a!Eldorado<\/strong> and <strong>HS_BROWSEFOX.SM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Browse-Pax-virustotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4046\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Browse-Pax-virustotal.png\" alt=\"Browse Pax virustotal\" width=\"759\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Browse-Pax-virustotal.png 759w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Browse-Pax-virustotal-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since you probably want to <strong>remove Browse Pax<\/strong>, just select the files that are digitally signed by &#8220;Browse Pax&#8221; in\u00a0<a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Easy peasy.<\/p>\n<p>Any idea how you got Browse Pax\u00a0on your machine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from a snowy Stockholm. Was reviewing some of the files added to this web site and found a new adware named Browse Pax. Browse Pax appears to be a variant of BrowseFox. As usual when I run into some new software I uploaded it to VirusTotal to see if the anti-virus software there find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/how-to-remove-the-browse-pax-adware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Remove The Browse Pax Adware<\/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],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045"}],"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=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}