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 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. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler triggered daily at a specified time. Additionally, the file is typically installed by a number of programs including BrowserSafeguard with RocketTab by Adknowledge, Inc. and BrowserSafeguard by Adknowledge, Inc., both potentially unwanted software.