CrossBrowser

CrossBrowser is adware that uses your browser to deliver both additional advertisements and extra search results through a third party. Adware isn't threatening, but may be a typical source of attacks against your PC through compromised advertising networks. As a result, you usually should try to delete any adware program that fails to provide strong arguments for using its features. The potential for adware like CrossBrowser to fail to uninstall itself completely is high, which is why malware researchers recommend using specialized anti-adware applications for the process.

CrossBrowser: Crossing Your Browser's Safety Off the List

CrossBrowser is an adware product whose ambitious partnerships have taken CrossBrowser to areas likely to damage its future reputability, despite its supposed purpose of providing Web-browsing benefits. Like other adware programs noted recently by malware experts, such as the unrelated Browse Pulse, CrossBrowser makes its primary business injecting new advertisements into your browser. CrossBrowser is compatible with Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, but not with Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari.

CrossBrowser claims to provide information privacy features and faster Web-surfing times, but malware experts found no functionality to back up these claims – and noted that its advertisements even may slow your browser's loading times. However, the most significant detail of CrossBrowser's business operations was its use of similarsites.com for its search recommendations. The latter site is noteworthy for its extensive historical promotion of unsafe third-party links, including, in numerous instances, threatening sites that could install Trojans or other threats to your computer.

At least one confirmed adware add-on separate from CrossBrowser also has been linked to similarsites.com, SilentBar.B. Some variants of SilentBar are identified as threats, although malware researchers find no indications of this being the case with the version hosted on that website. However, all caution is recommended for even minor interactions with advertisements served through CrossBrowser's partners.

How to Cross a River of Chrome Advertisements

Even though CrossBrowser is less an issue for non-Chrome users, all Web surfers should concern themselves with the potential for third-party products to display advertisements that could slow down or endanger their PCs. Other risks that may come through interacting with CrossBrowser advertisements may include threats up to those as severe attacks that could install true threats. However, CrossBrowser remains classified as a non-threatening PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program).

Web surfers interested in preventing their browsers from loading more potentially unsafe advertisements than necessary should consider the prompt deletion of all adware, including CrossBrowser, immediately after identifying them. Regardless of the risks posed by its content, CrossBrowser remains a PUP, and can be removed by PC security products whose feature set extends to uninstalling unwanted, and not necessarily threatening, software.

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