What is Browser Information?

What is Browser Information?

Browser Information might look as useful application at first sight, but it’s really just another one malicious application that you should not keep installed on your computer if you want to avoid getting into trouble. Once installed it will display malicious and annoying advertisements on all of your web browsers. It’s really easy to notice, because all those ads displayed by Browser Information are labeled with slogan “Ads by Browser Information” or “Brought to you by Browser Information”. In case you have noticed this occurrence on any of your browsers, wait no more and take needed actions to eliminate

First of all, you have to select which way you want to perform this – manually or automatically. We recommend to to this automatically because it’s much easier and time efficient. Simply download reliable anti-malware application, such as SpyHunter or StopZilla and scan your computer with it. It will automatically detect and eliminate the threat. It will also protect your system from similar infections in the future, so it’s worth to have such an application installed on your computer. You can use other anti-malware of your choice too.

However, if fro some reasons you don’t want to download any additional anti-malware software, you can get rid of Browser Information manually as well. In case you have no idea how to do this, scroll down below this article. There you will find our step-by-step Browser Information manual removal guide. All you need to do is to follow all steps carefully and you will be able to get rid of this adware for good.

In case you would like to learn more about specific features of Browser Information, please continue reading this article.

About Browser Information adware

It works as browser add-on that can be added to all most popular web browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and even Safari. Once installed, it will flood all those browsers with various advertisements, in all kinds of forms, such as pop-up, pop-under, in-text, contextual or banner advertisements. New tab or window can be opened on your web browser as well. Those advertisements displayed by Browser Information appear completely randomly and we don’t recommend to click on any of them. If you do so, you will be immediately redirected to other websites that may be owned by cyber criminals, such as hackers or scammers. This way your computer can get infected with other viruses or in case you attempt to purchase something there you can even get scammed and lose your hard earned money.

Browser Information can be described as advertising network that was developed specifically for cyber criminals. As you know, they can’t advertise on legitimate advertising networks because they are banned there, so instead they use adware just like this to drive some traffic to their websites. This being said, if you keep Browser Information installed on your computer, cyber criminals can reach you right on your web browser on a daily basis and that’s really dangerous.

And that’s not even all unwanted aspects of Browser Information. It will also collect your personal information, such as browsing history, search queries, most visited sites or even your IP and email addresses. This information will be used for marketing purposes. They adjust those advertisements according to collected data and make them even more relevant and attractive to your browsing habits this way, so chances that you will click on one of those ads rise. And that’s the main goal of Browser Information because they get paid for every click you make.

Distribution Methods of Browser Information

You can get infected with Browser Information by downloading and installing free software from unreliable websites because it travels bundled with it. So in this case, if you want to avoid getting infected with this malware, you need to pay close attention to the installation process of freebies.

Always opt out for a custom or advanced install mode if possible and don’t skip any steps (do not just click ‘next’ and ‘agree’ buttons all the time without reading all information first). Look for various checkboxes that can be already checked for you. Reading all terms and conditions would be considered wise as well. If you notice that some additional software that you are not aware of is being installed alongside – don’t allow this installation to be completed because it can possibly be Browser Information or any other adware.