2014年11月7日星期五

What is BrowseStudie?


What is BrowseStudie?

BrowseStudie is yet another malicious application listed as an adware. Once installed it will display various advertisements on all of your web browsers. As you could imagine, it’s really annoying and disturbing. Moreover those advertisements can lead you to some really unwanted consequences therefore you should not keep BrowseStudie installed on your computer. Since this application is travelling around the Internet bundled with other free applications and gets installed without users even being aware of that, you can notice that you computer is infected only when you see advertisements with slogan “Ads by BrowseStudie” or “Brought to you but BrowseStudie”. If you have noticed this occurrence, your computer is definitely infected and you need to take actions to get rid of BrowseStudie.

To remove infection, you will need to get a trustworthy anti-malware program. We recommend to use SpyHunter, StopZilla or Malwarebytes. Simply download one of these applications and scan your computer with it. That’s all you need to do – the program will detect and remove the virus automatically. It will also protect your computer from similar infections in the future. If for some reasons you don’t want to download any anti-malware software, you can uninstall BrowseStudie manually as well. We have developed a step-by-step BrowseStudie removal guide to assist you. Look for it under this article. If you would like to find out more about BrowseStudie adware ant its’ specifics, please continue reading.

About BrowseStudie

It works as a browser add-on that can be added to all most popular web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Even though it’s described as an add-on that will help you to save your time and money when shopping online by providing you with various coupons, deals and commercial offers, this is not quite true. All those offers are displayed in an annoying manner of web advertisements. They can be displayed in all kinds of forms, such as pop-up, pop-under, in-text and banner advertisements. Usually they appear on e-commerce websites, such as eBay or Amazon and offers you to purchase some particular goods at a very appealing price rate. This application may also display you price comparison and tempt you to click on those advertisements. However, you should not do that if you don’t want to put yourself in an actual danger.

Since BrowseStudie is completely free for users, they get sponsored from other websites for displaying their advertisements. Take in consideration that those other websites usually are owned by various cyber criminals, such as hackers and scammers. So if you have BrowseStudie installed on your computer, cyber criminals can reach you right on your web browser on a daily basis. If you click on one of those advertisements, you will be immediately redirected to some other websites and this could cause your computer harm or if you attempt to purchase something there you can even get scammed.

Another unwanted attribute of BrowseStudie is data collection. Once installed it will collect your personal information, such as browsing history, search queries, Top visited sites, IP and email addresses. They adjust their advertisements according to the collected data and make them even more attractive to you this way, so chances that you will click on one of those advertisements rises. And it’s the main goal of BrowseStudie because they get paid for every click you make on those advertisements. They generate web traffic and collect sales leads.

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