Distributed by Adknowledge's installers (Optimum/Fusion/Tiny), the trojan adware will proxy various web traffic and inject advertising in the browser. BrowserProtect was programmed by Danny Miller of Adknowledge. The software uses Fiddler, web debugging proxy, for capturing HTTP traffic and will install a root certificate named DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot. The application uninstall.browsersafeguard.exe has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is the uninstaller utility registered in the Windows Control Panel for the program BrowserSafeguard by Browsersafeguard. This file is typically installed with the program BrowserSafeguard by Adknowledge, Inc. which is a potentially unwanted software program.