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 BrowserSafeguard.exe has been detected as adware by 3 anti-malware scanners. This executable runs as a local area network (LAN) Internet proxy server listening on port 50103 and has the ability to intercept and modify all inbound and outbound Internet traffic on the local host. This file is typically installed with the program BrowserSafeguard by Adknowledge, Inc. which is a potentially unwanted software program.