Browser Warden

BrowserWarden markets itself as a website blocker, but also may include numerous functions more appropriate to adware than to a security product. Its information monitoring and advertising features may harm your browser's performance, and all adware programs of a similar nature may run the risk of unintentionally loading content that could harm your PC, such as vulnerability-exploiting scripts. When experiencing any problems with this software, most PC users should consider removing BrowserWarden with good anti-adware applications.

BrowserWarden and a Web Browser Imprisoned with Advertisements

BrowserWarden is a 2014 adware product developed, in theory, to block known hostile websites from loading into your browser. Along with this legitimately beneficial function, BrowserWarden also may finance itself by collecting data about its users and displaying advertisements. BrowserWarden advertisements are designed to include:

• Shopping 'coupons' for popular e-retailers.
• Website links inserted into contextual text.
• Pop-ups.
• Banners injected into unrelated sites.
• Interstitial advertisements – or full-page advertisements that load before your intended Web destination.
• Additional, sponsored search results.

Although BrowserWarden does give options for disabling its coupons on a site-by-site basis, malware researchers found no equivalent functions for disabling its other advertising offers. In addition to its adware functions, BrowserWarden also may monitor and transmits some non-confidential information, including which sites you visit, some system specifications and general geolocation details. Together, these features may destabilize your browser or reduce some aspects of its performance, such as how quickly it may load websites.

An Escape from Advertising Prison

BrowserWarden is compatible with multiple Windows browsers, as well as with OS X's Safari. Other Unix-based systems are awaiting verification for any possible compatibilities. During its installation process, BrowserWarden also may modify more than one browser simultaneously. Common anti-adware heuristics should be capable of undoing most settings changes that allow BrowserWarden's advertisements to display at the same time as you remove BrowserWarden. Keeping any contact with these advertisements to bare minimums also may prevent your PC from being exposed to the attacks that may exploit adware-abused advertising networks, such as common Web misleading tactics.

For those interested in doing so, BrowserWarden may be installed from its primary website. On the other hand, most adware products normally are installed along with other software, either through a bundle or the efforts of threats. Assuming you don't carelessly download and install files from threatening sources, any PC protected by competent security solutions should have minimal vulnerability to either of these distribution methods.

Recent installation methods for BrowserWarden sometimes include non-visible installations that may modify your browser without any detectable components of BrowserWarden. These relatively surreptitious variants of BrowserWarden should continue to be detectable by good anti-adware products, although there aren't necessarily any visible symptoms to go with it.

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