Browsersecuritycenter.com - How to remove

Browsersecuritycenter.com is a browser hijacker that comes with the Website Security Checker extension. Browsersecuritycenter.com takes over your default search engine and it scans the URLs of the sites that you’re on. Although it’s promoted as a security tool for your browser, it behaves like an advertising program. You can remove Browsersecuritycenter.com by uninstalling Website Security Checker.

About Browsersecuritycenter.com:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker, potentially unwanted program.
Problems with Browsersecuritycenter.com	Bad for privacy, is an advertising site, its search engine does not have many important features.
How Website Security Checker spreads	Advertised online, promoted by other browser hijackers and adware viruses.
How to remove Browsersecuritycenter.com	Remove Website Security Checker and other unwanted browser extensions, check your computer (with Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others) for malware.

How Browsingsecurityhub.com works

A few problems

Browsingsecurityhub.com is a website while Website Security Checker is a browser extension. When Website Security Checker is installed, it changes your default search engine to Browsersecuritycenter.com, which uses Yahoo or Bing to deliver your search results.

In addition, Website Security Checker monitors the websites that you visit and shows you whether the site is secure or not safe.

There are a few problems with Website Security Checker:

• Browsingsecurityhub.com is a terrible search engine,
• it’s an advertising site and it gets access to people’s search terms,
• not all unsafe sites are blocked.

Lacking search engine

According to Website Security Checker’s description, it changes your search engine to Browsersecuritycenter.com as a security measure. It even says “Secure Search powered by Bing” at the top.

But Browsersecuritycenter.com’s search lacks a lot of essential features, such as pages, multimedia search results, language, data, SafeSearch (blocking or allowing adult content), and others. It’s nearly unusable as a regular search engine.

Exposed private information

Meanwhile, Browsersecuritycenter.com gets to read your search queries. Its privacy policy insists that search terms aren’t (probably) stored. That privacy policy also says that Browsersecuritycenter.com operates as an advertising provider. As such, it benefits from controlling your searches and reading your search history and browsing history.

Lacking protection

Also, I’m not sure how effective Browsersecuritycenter.com is at protecting you. Maybe Website Security Checker is not a great security checker. When I deliberately went on some malicious sites, like Hopsigna.com, Mynewswire.co, or New-message.live, Browsersecuritycenter.com still showed the “This site is SECURE” message.

It could be that Browsersecuritycenter.com is not very restrictive, detecting only the most dangerous sites and leaving scams and notification spammers for you to figure out. But then why does it exist at all? Truly malicious websites need to be blocked from opening in your browser, like how blocklists do it. Otherwise, harmful sites can cause problems. In such a situation, Browsersecuritycenter.com’s warnings are not useful because by then, it’s too late.

As an example, the Google Chrome browser automatically blocks very malicious websites and deliberately makes them difficult for you to open. This is safer than simply warning you once you’re on the dangerous site.

Extensions like Website Security Checker that promise security but are more focused on advertising are not rare. For example, Safe Browsing and Web Protection for Chrome.

How Website Security Checker gets installed

There’s the site Browsersecuritycenter.com where you can download Website Security Checker from. How people reach Browsersecuritycenter.com varies:

• search result ads by alternative (or fake) search engines (like Privacysearching.com),
• advertisements on movie pirating sites,
• malicious links in YouTube video descriptions, Facebook comments and posts, and other social media,
• malicious spam in email,
• pop-ups and redirects by adware viruses.

It’s important for you to examine your behavior and try to figure out how you ended up on Browsersecuritycenter.com.

You might need to check your computer for malicious adware programs, to see if anything (like a bad browser extension) has been messing with your web browser (changing settings, injecting ads) and caused you to end up on Browsersecuritycenter.com.

For example, sites like Privacysearching.com spread via browser extensions.

Also, you might want to look into using an ad-blocker or an anti-malware program to secure your browsing. Plenty of ad blockers and security programs are good at blocking malicious and potentially dangerous sites.

How to remove Browsersecuritycenter.com

Remove unwanted extensions from your browser. Not just Website Security Checker, but all the extensions that you don’t use and that you don’t want. The instructions can be found below.

Also, scan your device for malware with an anti-malware tool that you trust, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others. If any adware is listed in your scan results, remove it. Anti-malware programs can also remove detected browser extensions for you.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Uninstall unwanted browser extensions

TopRemoving Browsersecuritycenter.com from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Browsersecuritycenter.com. Click on the trash bin icon next to Browsersecuritycenter.com or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Browsersecuritycenter.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Browsersecuritycenter.com from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Browsersecuritycenter.com. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Browsersecuritycenter.com or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Browsersecuritycenter.com from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Browsersecuritycenter.com related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Browsersecuritycenter.com, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.