Hello guys and gals. Did you just notice something called Browser Guard on your computer? If Browser Guard is installed on your computer, you will spot new add-ons installed in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer called “Browser Guard 1.0” and “Browser Guard BHO” as shown in the screenshots below. Chrome seems to be unaffected by the adware 🙂 I’ll show how to remove Browser Guard in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.

Here’s the add-on in Firefox:

And here’s the Browser Guard add-on in Internet Explorer. The publisher says “Gratifying Apps“.

BrowserGuard is bundled in other software’s installers. When I first found Browser Guard, it was bundled with an annoying piece of software called FastPlayerPro. It bundles a ton of unwanted programs. Generally, you can avoid bundled software such as Browser Guard by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer.

When I run into some new bundled software I always upload it to VirusTotal to check if the anti-viruses there find something. Of the 54 scanners, only 6 detected the file. Agnitum detects Browser Guard as PUA.SmartApps!, Antiy-AVL calls it GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.Agent and ESET-NOD32 detects it as a variant of Win32/AdWare.SmartApps.H.

Since you probably want to remove Browser Guard, these are the files you should check for removal if you want to remove it with FreeFixer. You may have to reboot your computer to complete the removal.

Hope that helped you with the removal.

Do you also have Browser Guard on your system? Any idea how it was installed? Please share in the comments below. Thank you!

Hope you found this useful. Thanks for reading.