Infected with BrowserSecurity? - How to Remove BrowserSecurity

Hello. Yesterday I got a Trojan horse virus called BrowserSecurity on my Dell laptop with Win 7 Home Premium and ZoneAlarm firewall. AVG anti virus notified me but could not removed it. I tried to fix it but no luck. Is there an effective and simple way that is able to catch and remove Trojan horse Generic_r.CIW virus completely? Any help will be appreciated.

What is BrowserSecurity?

BrowserSecurity is an illegitimate application that enumerates itself to be a Spyware removal application but actually is a system threat which promoted online via several suspicious links comprising malevolent scripts embedded in it that after getting installed into the system strikes numerous fake security alerts and virus infections reports so as to compel the user to get rid of those infection by means of purchasing the full upgrades accessible online. These vulnerable applications are not to be trusted at all but somehow if found on the system it is immediately required to be removed from the system permanently so as to secure your system data from getting dumped. Once this Trojan is downloaded on the target computer, surely, the anti-virus program installed can warn the computer user that this BrowserSecurity is detected, however, it is not easy for the protection tool to remove it completely as this Trojan can spread in the computer in a very quick speed. It can divide and duplicate itself on the infected computer and hide deeply in the hard drive, also, many system related files can be corrupted by this Trojan. This Trojan can make great trouble to the infected computer. For instance, with many corrupted system files, the system can run improperly which means it will get many unwanted errors during the use. What's worse, in some situations, the computer will get black screen or even blue screen to death. This Trojan can waste much usage of CPU on the infected computer; the CPU usage can be 100% all the time which makes the computer runs slowly and it may take a large time to open programs. Except damaging the system severely, cyber hackers can use this Trojan to take control of the infected computer, once those criminals have accessed the infected computer, they can do everything they want on it and the whole process cannot be noticed by PC user. That is the worst part of this Trojan does, those crooks can collect personal information from the infected computer and use the sensitive details for crime.

Beware of False Security Messages That Would Cause You To Download Malware into your Computer The virus or worm would display a security message that warns the user that his or her computer has been infected. These viruses would display warnings that appear to be legitimate. It then entices the user to click on links that would apparently take them to sites for removal of the viruses, when in actual fact the malicious software is making the user visit an infected website and run more malicious codes on the user's system and registry. What Are Some Common Ways For Trojan Horse Viruses, Malware and Worms to Infect your System? The most common way for a PC system to get infected by malicious software is via downloads of files online, especially from free download websites. The same is true for peer to peer files sharing networks like Kazaa and Limewire. Visits to malicious websites and connection of infected media devices like a corrupted thumb-drive can also bring the problem to your PC. Manual Removal Guides: 1.Reboot the PC and keep pressing F8 key on the keyboard upon PC startup but before logging in. Hit the arrow keys to choose "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then tap Enter key to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

2.Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

3.Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4.Open Registry entries. Search malicious files and registry entries related to BrowserSecurity and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to BrowserSecurity from the browsers Google Chrome Click on wrench icon-> locate Tools-> click on Extensions-> click on the bin icon or uncheck the items related to BrowserSecurity.

Internet Explorer Click Tools>select "Manage Add-ons">"search providers">set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to "search results">remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox Click on Firefox button-> click on Add-ons-> search for all the extensions of BrowserSecurity from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

BrowserSecurity is a notorious virus that used by hacker to take advantages of PC users. It is a malignant infection that make use of system vulnerablities in target system and encourage remote attacking. With the help of it, cyber criminals can easily access to the infected system and execute many dodgy action such as stealing private info and monitoring PC. Failure to remove it not only would result in possible damage to the windows operating system and your PC hardware components, also would increase the chance of letting cyber criminals take advantages of your stolen financial data.