How to remove browserexstensions.review pop-ups [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

There are many types of malware and one of them is adware (sometimes called ‘ad-supported’ software). The adware, which causes the appearance of browserexstensions.review pop-ups or the redirect to this unwanted web page, have a negative impact on the functioning of your PC system. It modifies personal computer settings, generates a lot of various ads, slows down the Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Edge and the speed of your internet connection. Moreover, it may lead to the fact that pages are slow to load and the browser interface can even freeze. The main function of the ‘ad-supported’ software is showing advertisements, so it may redirect your internet browser to an annoying web-site like browserexstensions.review, instead of the one that you want to visit. Even if you try to type an address into the browser’s address bar, then the web browser is anyway will display an unwanted ad page.

The adware usually affects only the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and MS Edge by changing the web-browser’s settings or installing a malicious extensions (addons). Moreover, possible situations, when any other internet browsers will be affected too. The ‘ad-supported’ software will perform a scan of the computer for browser shortcuts and modify them without your permission. When it infects the internet browser shortcuts, it’ll add the argument like ‘http://site.address’ into Target property. So, each time you run the web-browser, you will see an annoying browserexstensions.review web page.

The ‘ad-supported’ software is not a virus, but the virus behaves similarly. As a rootkit hides in the system, alters web-browser settings and blocks them from changing. Also the adware can install additional web browser extensions, addons and modules that will inject advertising banners within the FF, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge’s screen. Moreover, the ‘ad-supported’ software may install a browser hijacker that once started, will change the internet browser’s homepage and search engine. And finally, the ad-supported software can collect a wide variety of personal information such as what web sites you are opening, what you are looking for the World Wide Web and so on. This information, in the future, may be transferred to third parties.

We recommend to get rid of the ‘ad-supported’ software, which redirects your web-browser on the browserexstensions.review annoying site, as soon as you found this problem, as it can direct you to web-resources which may load other malicious software on your computer.

How does browserexstensions.review ads get installed onto machine

The adware spreads along with various free software, as a supplement, which is installed automatically. This is certainly not an honest way to get installed onto your machine. To avoid infecting of your computer and side effects in the form of the browserexstensions.review unwanted advertisements, you should always carefully read the ‘Terms of Use’ and the ‘Software license’. Additionally, always select Manual, Custom or Advanced installation mode. This allows you to disable the installation of unnecessary and often harmful programs.

How to manually remove browserexstensions.review pop-ups

Without a doubt, the adware is harmful to your machine. So you need to quickly and completely get rid of this dangerous software. To delete this adware, you can use the manual removal which are given below, or use an anti-malware tool for removing malicious software, such as Malwarebytes Anti-malware and AdwCleaner (both are free). I note that we recommend that you use automatic removal, which will allow you to remove browserexstensions.review pop-up ads easily and safely. Manual removal is best used only if you are well versed in computer or in the case where adware is not removed automatically.

1. Delete suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel
2. Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to get rid of browserexstensions.review redirect
3. Delete browserexstensions.review advertisements from Mozilla Firefox
4. Remove browserexstensions.review advertisements from Chrome
5. Remove browserexstensions.review ads from Internet Explorer
6. Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Remove suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel

We recommend that you start the machine cleaning process by checking the list of installed programs and delete all unknown or suspicious software. This is a very important step, as mentioned above, very often the malicious programs such as adware and browser hijackers may be bundled with freeware. Remove the unwanted programs may remove the unwanted ads or web browser redirect to unknown or unwanted pages.

It’ll display the Windows Control Panel as shown in the figure below.

Next, press “Uninstall a program” It will show a list of all applications. Scroll through the all list, and uninstall any suspicious and unknown programs. To quickly find the latest installed applications, we recommend sort applications by date of installation in the Control panel.

Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to get rid of browserexstensions.review redirect

Click the right mouse button to a desktop shortcut which you use to start your internet browser. Next, select the “Properties” option. Important: necessary to click on the desktop shortcut for the internet browser which is redirected to the browserexstensions.review or other unwanted web page.

Further, necessary to look at the text which is written in the “Target” field. The adware can modify the contents of this field, which describes the file to be start when you start your web browser. Depending on the web browser you are using, there should be: Google Chrome: chrome.exe, Opera: opera.exe, Firefox: firefox.exe, Internet Explorer: iexplore.exe. If you are seeing an unknown text like “http://site.address” which has been added here, then you should delete it, as shown in the figure below.

Next, press the “OK” button to save the changes. Now, when you run the browser from this desktop shortcut, it does not occur automatically redirect on the browserexstensions.review web page or any other unwanted sites that is advertised by the ad supported software. Once the step is done, we recommend to go to the next step.

Delete browserexstensions.review advertisements from Mozilla Firefox

First, run the Mozilla Firefox. Next, click the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It will open the drop-down menu. Next, click the “Help” button ().

In the Help menu, press the “Troubleshooting Information”. In the upper-right corner of the “Troubleshooting Information” page, click “Refresh Firefox” button.

Confirm your action, click the “Refresh Firefox”.

Remove browserexstensions.review advertisements from Chrome

Reset Chrome settings is a easy way to get rid of the malicious and ad-supported extensions, as well as to restore the browser’s start page and search provider by default that have been modified by adware.

1. Open the Google Chrome, then click the Menu icon (icon in the form of three horizontal stripes).
2. It will open the Google Chrome main menu. Click the “Settings” menu.
3. Next, press the “Show advanced settings” link, which located at the bottom of the Settings page.
4. Further, click the “Reset settings” button, that located at the bottom of the Advanced settings page.
5. The Google Chrome will show the reset settings prompt as shown on the screen above.
6. Confirm the internet browser’s reset by clicking on the “Reset” button.
7. To learn more, look the post How to reset Google Chrome settings to default.

Remove browserexstensions.review ads from Internet Explorer

To remove the browserexstensions.review you need to reset the Internet Explorer to the state, that was when the Windows was installed on your computer.

First, start the Internet Explorer, then click ‘gear’ icon . It will open the drop-down menu on the right part of the internet browser, then click the “Internet Options” as shown below.

In the “Internet Options” screen, you need to select the “Advanced” tab and click the “Reset” button. The Microsoft Internet Explorer will show the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” prompt as shown below. Next, click the “Delete personal settings” check box to select it. After that, click the “Reset” button.

When the task is done, press “Close” button. Close the Internet Explorer and reboot your system for the changes to take effect. This step will help you to restore your browser’s settings to default state and disable ‘ad-supported’ extensions.

Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Once installed, the ‘ad-supported’ software can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you start your personal computer, it will open browserexstensions.review annoying web-page. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all tasks that have been created by ‘ad-supported’ application.

Press Windows and R keys on your keyboard simultaneously. It will display a dialog box that titled with Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and click OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, press “Task Scheduler Library”, as shown on the screen below.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be show just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Necessary to look at the text which is written under Details. Found something such as “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address” or “firefox.exe http://site.address”, then you need delete this task. If you are not sure that executes the task, then google it. If it’s a component of the adware, then this task also should be removed.

Further press on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as on the image below.

Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by ‘ad-supported’ program. Once is finished, close the Task Scheduler window.

Delete browserexstensions.review with Malwarebytes

Remove browserexstensions.review advertisements manually is difficult and often the adware is not completely removed. Therefore, we recommend you to use the Malwarebytes Free which are completely clean your personal computer. The Malwarebytes is a reputable malware removal program. It can automatically detect and remove the ‘ad-supported’ software (also known as adware) of the your personal computer. Moreover, this free program will help you to remove web browser hijackers, malware and toolbars that your personal computer may be infected too. You can follow the few simple steps below to remove the browserexstensions.review annoying redirect completely.

Download Malwarebytes Free from the link below.

Once downloaded, close all software and windows on your machine. Open a directory in which you saved it. Double-click on the icon that’s named mb3-setup like below.

When the install begins, you will see the “Setup wizard” which will help you install Malwarebytes on your PC system.

Once installation is done, you will see window as shown on the image below.

Now press on the “Scan Now” button . This will begin scanning the whole system to find out adware that causes the reroute to browserexstensions.review web-page. This process can take some time, so please be patient.

Once the scanning is complete, make sure all entries have “checkmark” and click “Quarantine Selected” button. The Malwarebytes will start removing the adware related files, folders, registry keys. Once the disinfection is finished, you may be prompted to restart the system.

The following video explains the few simple steps above on how to remove adware with Malwarebytes Anti-malware.

Stop browserexstensions.review ads and other annoying pages

To increase your security and protect your PC against new unwanted ads and malicious pages, you need to use program that stops access to malicious advertisements and web sites. Moreover, the program can block the display of intrusive advertising, which also leads to faster loading of web-sites and reduce the consumption of web traffic.

Download AdGuard program by clicking on the following link.

After downloading is finished, launch the file named adguardInstaller. You will see the “Setup Wizard” screen like below.

Follow the prompts. When the installation is done, you will see a window as shown on the screen below.

You can press “Skip” to close the setup program and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” button to see an quick tutorial which will help you get to know AdGuard better.

In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you start your personal computer, AdGuard will run automatically and block pop-ups, sites such as browserexstensions.review, as well as other dangerous or misleading web sites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, that is located on your Windows desktop.

Get rid of browserexstensions.review ads and malicious extensions with AdwCleaner.

If MalwareBytes cannot remove the annoying browserexstensions.review from the Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge, then we suggests to use the AdwCleaner. AdwCleaner is a free removal tool for adware, browser hijackers, PUPs and toolbars.

Download AdwCleaner from the link below.

When downloading is complete, open the file location. Double click the AdwCleaner icon. Once this utility is launched, you will see a screen like below.

Now, click the “Scan” button . This will start scanning the whole system to find out malicious extensions and adware which displays advertisements from browserexstensions.review web-page. Once the system scan is finished, it will show a scan report as shown below.

Review the report and then click “Clean” button. It will open a prompt. Click “OK”. Once the clean-up is finished, AdwCleaner may ask you to restart your computer.

Look at the following video, which completely explains the procedure of using the AdwCleaner to remove ad supported software, browser hijackers and other malicious applications.

Finish words

Once you have finished the instructions above, your system should be clean from malware and ad supported software. The Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Edge and IE will no longer display browserexstensions.review annoying advertisements or redirect you to unwanted web pages. Unfortunately, if the instructions does not help you, then you have caught a new type of ad-supported software, and then the best way – ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.