TheBrowser

Posted by Max Lehmann on December 21, 2015

What is TheBrowser?

Do not get fooled by slogans about an application known as TheBrowser. Despite all the claims how it can help you improve your overall online experience, it has been dubbed as a potentially unwanted program by malware experts at our internal labs. Such classification is mostly because the questionable web browsing software does something much more alarming than it should. Unfortunately, our reports show that a rather large number of users are lured into downloading and installing this tool as they are not aware of this information. Make sure to read the rest of this article to find out how exactly TheBrowser works and what are the main reasons our research team recommends its removal. Besides such information, we provide a detailed removal guide that will help you delete TheBrowser without encountering any major problems. test test test

What does TheBrowser do?

Even though at first sight TheBrowser does not seem to exhibit any questionable features, at first sight, you must know that besides providing access to the Internet it does quite a bit more in the background. Unfortunately, this cannot be always detected by an average user. Malware researchers at our internal labs have discovered that is browser cannot be considered trustworthy. This is so because the questionable tool uses its own search engine and homepage; thus, whether you like it or not, you will be forced to use them. What is most alarming about these changes is that the browser could establish numerous connections to unknown online servers. Thus, at times, you could be presented with tons of unwanted web content that mostly manifests itself as commercial ads and annoying pop-ups. Besides that silent downloads could take place as the potentially unwanted program uses dubious registry keys, values, files, and folders to establish connections to suspicious and at times even malicious servers; therefore, your PC could get filled up with questionable software without your knowledge and some of it could even turn out to be malicious. Thus, surfing the web with TheBrowser could turn out to be a risk that you should not take. This is the major reason we strongly urge every security-conscious user to delete TheBrowser once and for all.

Another questionable feature that played a significant role while classifying TheBrowser as a potentially unwanted program is the method of its distribution. Even though you can download it from its official website, you must know that in quite a few cases this unwanted browser comes as a part of a bundled installer. This is a rather questionable way of distributions since a lot of malware distributors use software bundles; therefore, we firmly advise you to check your computer for other dubious programs if you happen to already have TheBrowser active on your PC. Often software bundles include unwanted and malicious applications, which should never be active on your operating system. To bypass such installers, you should always download your software from official vendors’ websites only. Also, you should always have a reliable malware detection and removal tool as it can identify any potential virtual threats in advanced.

How to remove TheBrowser

Follow the removal guide carefully as it is imperative to delete every single file, folder, and registry entry related to TheBrowser to kill all the possible connection to dubious servers. Even a single mistake could mean that the potentially unwanted program was not removed entirely. This could have devastating outcomes as other suspicious programs could at times use just a single registry entry in order to enter your operating system without any trouble. Avoid such instance by running a full system scan with a reliable antimalware tool once you have conducted the manual removal.