December 3, 2012 By 77 Comments

Remove “Browse to Save” ads (Removal Instructions)

“Browse to Save” is an adware program that will display their own ads on eBay,Amazon,Walmart and other the web pages that you are visiting.These advertisements will be shown as boxes containing various coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked will display an advertisement that states it is brought to you by “Browse to Save”.
Browse to Save advertisement
“Browse to Save” got on your computer after you have installed another program that had bundled in their installer the “Browse to Save” adware.
You should always pay attention when installing software because often, a software installer includes optional installs, such as this “Browse to Save”. Be very careful what you agree to install. Always opt for the custom installation and deselect anything that is not familiar, especially optional software that you never wanted to download and install in the first place. It goes without saying that you should not install software that you don’t trust.

“Browse to Save” – Adware Removal Instructions

STEP 1 : Uninstall ”Browse to Save” from your computer

“Browse to Save” has installed a program called “Browse to Save” Toolbar on your computer which we will need to uninstall.

  1. To uninstall “Browse to Save” program from your computer,click the Start button,then select Control Panel, and click on Uninstall a program. (Add or Remove Programs for Windows XP)
  2. Search and uninstall “Brows2Save” program from your computer.
    Browse2Save program

Please keep in mind that on some computers, this program might be renamed, if you can’t find “Browse to Save” on your list,then carefully look for any suspicious program and uninstall it from your computer.

STEP 2 : Remove the “Browse to Save” extension from your browser

“Browse to Save” is an add-on for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome that is typically installed when you install other free programs.To get rid of it’s pop-ups we need to remove the Browse2Save extension.
Please keep in mind that on some computers, this program might have added a different named extensions (YouTube Downloader Toolbar, WXDownloadFast, PDF Source Forge Toolbar, IObit toolbar, StartNow Toolbar or RewardsArcade), so if you can’t find “Browse to Save” on your list,then carefully look for any suspicious program and remove it from your browser.

Remove “Browse to Save” from Internet Explorer

  1. Open Internet Explorer,then click on the gear icon [Image: icongear.jpg] (Tools for Windows XP users) at the top (far right) and then  select Manage add-ons
    Internet Options in IE
  2. From the Toolbars and Extensions tab, select “Browse to Save” and click Disable.
    [Image: Browse To Save Internet Explorer Add-on]

Remove “Browse to Save” from Mozilla Firefox

  1. At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, then select Add-ons.
    Firefox addon menu
  2. Select the Extensions tab, then remove “Browse to Save” from Firefox.
    [Image: Browse To Save Firefox Extension]

Remove “Browse to Save” from Google Chrome

  1. Click the Chrome menu Chrome menu on the browser toolbar,select Tools and then click on Extensions.
    Google Chrome Extensions
  2. In the Extensions tab,remove (by clicking on the Recycle Bin) the “Browse2Save” extension from your computer.
    Browse To Save Chrome

STEP 3: Remove “Browse to Save” registry keys with AdwCleaner.

  1. You can download AdwCleaner from the below link.
    ADWCLEANER DOWNLAOD LINK (This link will automatically download AdwCleaner on your computer)
  2. Before starting this utility,close all open programs and internet browsers.
  3. Double click on adwcleaner.exe to run the tool.
  4. Click on Delete,then confirm each time with Ok.
    Adwcleaner utility
  5. Your computer will be rebooted automatically. A text file will open after the restart.
  6. NEXT,double click on adwcleaner.exe to run the tool.
  7. Click on Uninstall,then confirm with yes to remove this utility from your computer.

STEP 4: Run a computer scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

  1. You can download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free from the below link,then double click on it to install this program.
    MALWAREBYTES ANTI-MALWARE DOWNLOAD LINK(This link will open a download page in a new window from where you can download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free)
  2. When the installation begins, keep following the prompts in order to continue with the setup process.
    DO NOT make any changes to default settings and when the program has finished installing, make sure you leave both the Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware checked,then click on the Finish button.
    [Image: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware final installation screen]
  3. On the Scanner tab,select Perform quick scan and then click on the Scan button to start scanning your computer.
    [Image: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Quick Scan]
  4. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer as shown below.
    [Image: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scanning for malware]
  5. When the Malwarebytes scan will be completed,click on Show Result.
    [Image: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scan results]
  6. You will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected.Please note that the infections found may be different than what is shown in the image.Make sure that everything is Checked (ticked) and click on the Remove Selected button.
    [Image:Malwarebytes removing malware]

STEP 5: Double check your system for any left over infections with HitmanPro

  1. You can download the latest version of HitmanPro from the below link.
    HITMANPRO DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will open a download page in a new window from where you can download HitmanPro)
  2. Double click on the previously downloaded file to start the HitmanPro installation.
    [Image: HitmanPro Icon]
  3. Click on Next to install HitmanPro on your system.
    [Image: Starting HitmanPro]
  4. The setup screen is displayed, from which you can decide whether you wish to install HitmanPro on your machine or just perform a one-time scan, select a option then click on Next to start a system scan.
    [Image: HitmanPro installation screen]
  5. HitmanPro will start scanning your system for malicious files as seen in the image below.
    [Image: HitmanPron scanning after
  6. Once the scan is complete,you’ll see a screen which will display all the malicious files that the program has found.Click on Nextto remove this malicious files.
    [Image: HitmanPro scan results]
  7. Click Activate free license to start the free 30 days trial and remove the malicious files.
    [Image: Activate HitmanPro license]

If you are still experiencing problems while trying to remove “Browse to Save” from your machine, please start a new thread in our Malware Removal Assistance forum.

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Comments

  1. Mujibur Rahman says:
    April 21, 2013 at 3:37 pm

    VERY USEFUL INFORMATION. I WILL SHALL THIS IN FACEBOOK IMMEDIATELY !!!

    Reply
  2. Aoteora says:
    April 12, 2013 at 12:46 am

    Thank you! this help alot

    Reply
  3. OnPath Graphics says:
    April 11, 2013 at 5:38 pm

    Thank u so much!!

    Reply
  4. Graham says:
    April 5, 2013 at 11:50 pm

    A big thankyou to you. I had already found it in the program files and uninstalled it, but was still getting some pop ups your site pointed me in the right direction to uninstall from the Google Toolbar.
    Thankyou.
    Graham
    Brisbane Australia.

    Reply
  5. KamatoJr says:
    April 3, 2013 at 4:21 pm

    works , good job :]

    Reply
  6. Sandeep says:
    April 2, 2013 at 8:11 am

    Very good articles, If found my solutions here.
    Thanks

    Reply
  7. max says:
    March 23, 2013 at 9:52 am

    thanks dear, it really helped

    Reply
  8. Devashish Sharma says:
    March 22, 2013 at 6:24 pm

    Hi Stelian, I am from New delhi, India. I was really troubled with unnecessary ads on YouTube and I followed your instructions point by point and am free of the problem now! Thanks to you – i will not be worried any more of my kid seeing an inappropriate ad on a web page. :) You are an angel. God bless! Cheers – Devashish

    Reply
  9. Toine says:
    March 17, 2013 at 8:07 pm

    Mine was hidden as Vaudix. :/ But thanks to the above manual, i caught it.

    Reply
    • Tara says:
      April 6, 2013 at 12:49 am

      Toine – Thank you for posting this! I’ve tried everything in this article and other anti-malware software and I would have never guessed it was hidden with Vaudix (I don’t even know wtf that is!) Problem solved now!

      Reply
  10. Uri says:
    March 16, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    Hey thanks a lot mate it really worked this is awesome it was mounching all my bandwith and pissing me off on facebook! you’re the man!!

    Reply
  11. Manuel Ruiz Prieto says:
    March 12, 2013 at 8:45 am

    Thank you, This method is true.

    Reply
  12. maxtech says:
    March 11, 2013 at 3:44 pm

    THANKS! :D

    Reply
  13. Camilla says:
    March 10, 2013 at 10:34 pm

    MASSIVE HELP! You’re the hero of the hour (and many hours to come)!

    Reply
  14. marioly says:
    March 10, 2013 at 2:58 pm

    thanks this guide couldnt be better :) <3 love you

    Reply
  15. Glasslilly says:
    March 9, 2013 at 7:46 am

    Thanks so much, have finally got rid of those irritating pop up ads. So easy..

    Reply
  16. Chris says:
    March 8, 2013 at 7:58 am

    AVG actually caught it in the initial scan. By the time I ran the other programs there was nothing left. This was of course after I removed from the extensions, and restarted Firefox.

    Reply
  17. ant says:
    March 7, 2013 at 6:57 pm

    Thank you very much. Problem was solved

    Reply
  18. Jack says:
    March 6, 2013 at 5:27 pm

    Many thanks for your awesome post. Clean, clear, to the point. Very helpful.

    Reply
  19. JamesT says:
    March 5, 2013 at 1:36 pm

    I’ve tried to do step 2 with IE, but when I go to remove the add on, the “remove button” isn’t high lighted, and it won’t let me click it. Any idea why? I want this damn thing off of here already. Thanks.

    Reply
    • Stelian Pilici says:
      March 5, 2013 at 6:19 pm

      Hello James,
      Did you remove the Browse2Save program as seen on Step 1 (Please search your list very carefully and remove any unwanted or unknown programs)? Did you run Adwcleaner?
      If you continue to have problems, please try to reset Internet Explorer to its default settings:
      1.Open Internet Explorer, click on the gear icon (Tools for Windows XP users) at the top (far right), then click again on Internet Options.
      2.Click on the “Advanced” tab of the window that appears. Click the “Reset” button in the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” section.Select the Delete personal settings and click on “Reset” again to confirm your choice.
      3.Wait for the process to finish. Click “Close.” Internet Explorer has been reset to its default settings.

      Reply
  20. hate adds says:
    March 4, 2013 at 3:37 pm

    worked like a charm!! for me the programme wasn’t installed on my pc only as add on in Chrome. So deleted the add on, deleted my cookies/browsing history, scanned with Adwcleaner + malware bites and now it’s all gone

    Reply
  21. Helle says:
    March 4, 2013 at 9:42 am

    This guide was perfect! Did the first two steps before I found this, and it didn’t do the trick until I followed the other steps aswell! Thank you so much!
    On my pc, the malware was hidden under the name “Continuetosave”..

    Reply
  22. helixcat says:
    March 3, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    On my system, browse-to-save was masquerading as an application called “Protected Search”. Once I killed the relevant process (had to do that twice), removed the application, and deleted all my cookies, the problem seems to have gone away.

    Reply
  23. I hate browser to save says:
    March 3, 2013 at 11:11 am

    You saved my life!!!! I thought I had to give up and learn how to live with that stupid ads and then I found this! It was in my computer as Zommex and as Yontoo, BOTH.
    -step1: Uninstalled Yontoo and Zoomex and any other program that I didn’t know (Zoomex’s installing date was 2011, and i bought this computer on december 2012, so don’t trust sorting programs by date and looking for recent programs). The ads were still appearing
    -step2: I had a zommex extension on my firefox, I removed it but the ads were still appearing
    -step3: AdwCleaner din’t find anything wrong
    -step4: Run MalwareBytes and it found 3 bad elements, 2 were on my recycle bin, so I removed them, I restarted my computer and empty the bin and voilá! Ads were gone. So happy! Thanx guys:)

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  24. EnnisEl says:
    March 2, 2013 at 9:24 am

    This was awesome consultation…thanks u sooooooo much

    Reply
  25. Sofia says:
    March 1, 2013 at 7:21 am

    OMG!!! Thanks a bunch STEP 1 and 2 helped me out alot!! Those ads were seriously getting on my nerves! But it all worked out now, and finally I can browse with firefox with out the annoying ads.

    Reply
  26. Kym Broome says:
    February 28, 2013 at 7:51 am

    Omg thanks so much step 3 worked for me finally the ads were driving me bonkers

    Reply
  27. peter says:
    February 28, 2013 at 12:03 am

    these malware been giving me hell for a couple of weeks but was able to remove them.Thanks for the instructions. the extensions were named Zoomex.

    cheers

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  28. wyatt says:
    February 22, 2013 at 3:23 am

    mom got some malware on my laptop >.>
    named zoomex as of feb 2013

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  29. faisal says:
    February 21, 2013 at 6:41 pm

    thanks alot, those ads were driving me crazy.

    Reply
  30. Anna C. says:
    February 20, 2013 at 6:47 pm

    I love you guys!!!! Those adds were driving me nuts! I found it under “Babylon Toolbar” that had an added extension named “tosave” on google chrome. I used ccleaner to remove it as well as removing it from chrome extensions.

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  31. SuperDog says:
    February 20, 2013 at 12:25 am

    I was working on step 1 and already deleted the programlisted as Browse2Save. Then, I found i found it again as BrowseToSave1.74. Also, I read some of the comments and found out that it was also listed as Yontoo. I found a program called Yontoo 1.10.03. Not only that, they were downloaded on the same day! What should I do? Is yontoo also the name of a ligit program? It says that it’s publisher is Yontoo LLC.

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  32. Jimmy Callaway says:
    February 18, 2013 at 4:14 pm

    Thanks a million!

    Reply
  33. Carina says:
    February 17, 2013 at 11:50 am

    Great! Browse to save is gone. Thanks a lot!!!

    Reply
  34. Joe says:
    February 17, 2013 at 12:50 am

    Thanks so much, guys like you are doing the rest of us all a great service. I already had Malwarebytes but it was AdwCleaner that seemed to do the trick. Much appreciated!!

    Reply
  35. Jan says:
    February 13, 2013 at 10:28 pm

    Thanks i was getting tired of those

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  36. Chay says:
    February 12, 2013 at 1:53 pm

    I do not have that title in my control Panel nor on the Extension window. Do they go by another name?

    Reply
  37. Tryce Harding Sims says:
    February 11, 2013 at 8:10 am

    Thank you, this helped me a lot. I appreciate it!

    Reply
  38. Simon says:
    February 10, 2013 at 10:01 pm

    Labelled as “Zoomex” on my computer. Can’t wait to be rid of those vile ads. Thanks guys.

    Reply
  39. Magne says:
    February 10, 2013 at 11:25 am

    Thanks alot man! Step 3 did the job! On my pc brows2save was under the name Zoomex

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  40. Hez says:
    February 7, 2013 at 2:36 am

    Thanks, stepped 3 worked a treat. Turns out the extension on my chrome was called saveas not Browse2Save.

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  41. Rita says:
    February 5, 2013 at 10:55 am

    On my computer there wasn’t any “browse2save” plugin, but I found a program, called “Zoomex”. It was the same plugin, with another name…

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  42. Mabo says:
    February 1, 2013 at 9:03 am

    Thank you ! mine was called “SaveByClick” and not Browse to save, if it can help !

    Reply
  43. Eelke says:
    January 30, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    Thanks boss, a working and complete guide for the helpless ignorant computer user like me.

    Reply
  44. Iqqles says:
    January 30, 2013 at 12:53 am

    THANK YOU!!!!

    Reply
  45. Bakhtiian says:
    January 29, 2013 at 1:01 am

    This actually worked, thank god. I think it may have been step 3 that was the key but I did them all so something worked.

    Just a heads up to anyone having this problem, I couldn’t find anything on my computer or in my browser extensions that even hinted at the name Browse to Save, so I did as the poster suggested and just removed everything that I didn’t know from both control panel and add-ons.

    Thank you again to the OP for this fix.

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  46. mike3dvision says:
    January 28, 2013 at 5:25 pm

    Thanks dude, sorted me out :)

    Reply
  47. browsetosave hater says:
    January 26, 2013 at 11:13 pm

    I did step 2 but it wasn’t so easy. It had a different name so I had to remove all add-ons I wasn’t using and it worked. Now is just wish the scums responsable for this would face justice but I guess that will never happen.

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  48. heyabasu says:
    January 26, 2013 at 1:20 pm

    Thank you so much. STEP 3 works perfectly!

    Reply
  49. jony says:
    January 21, 2013 at 10:56 pm

    thx Step 3…. this virus blocked my browser and i almost reinstaled windows but its ok now thx

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  50. Ann says:
    January 21, 2013 at 2:55 am

    Thanks STEP 3: Remove “Browse to Save” registry keys with AdwCleaner. Worked great..

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  51. Ann says:
    January 21, 2013 at 2:13 am

    STEP 1 and Step 2 don’t see any info about browse and save don’t see it on Google Chrome but when i sign into Facebook i don’t see ads just a lot of small links on left side of my page ran older version of Malwarebytes but i also got AdBlock from chrome web store i have a windows 7 home and i let you know my outcome. thanks for this posting

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  52. StarSword says:
    January 16, 2013 at 3:00 pm

    Thanks for the help. Seems to me the big thing is the registry cleanup AdwCleaner performs. Did that, ran Spybot Search & Destroy and found nothing, and the ads are gone.

    Reply
  53. Michael says:
    January 16, 2013 at 4:56 am

    I used Step 3 and it worked, thanks a bunch, the click to save thing was really bugging me.

    Reply
  54. Maz says:
    January 16, 2013 at 2:04 am

    Thank you, i have been trying to remove that stupid ad pop up for so long. I only had to go to step 3 for it to work but did step 4 just to be safe.

    Thank you.

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  55. Chris Bennett says:
    January 13, 2013 at 3:53 pm

    Thank you for the help Adwcleaner did the job! After trying to remove the malware manually following advice from another website, your process seemed effortless and did the trick! Thanks

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  56. AD_H8R says:
    January 7, 2013 at 12:15 pm

    Hey boss, started off ok but windows 8 os does not have the options to reset as described in option 1. These blazing ads are everywhere online, but not present in the Uninstall Option. Buggerz :(

    Reply
    • Stelian Pilici says:
      January 7, 2013 at 1:08 pm

      Hello AD_H8R,
      Right-click in the screen’s bottom-left corner and choose the Control Panel from the pop-up menu.
      When the Control Panel appears, choose Uninstall a Program from the Programs category.
      Search for any suspicious programs and uninstall them. If you can’t find any, then go ahead with Step 2
      Stay safe!

      Reply
  57. Estela says:
    January 5, 2013 at 9:10 am

    I love you, you have saved my life

    Reply
  58. Stelian Pilici says:
    January 1, 2013 at 9:39 am

    Hello Hamatro,
    What browser are you using?
    Please ignore any alert that your antivirus is generating regarding Adwcleaner… this is a safe and legit tool and your antivirus has a false positive detection.

    Reply
  59. US_DOJ_Gov says:
    December 28, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    THANK YOU — IT WORKED

    “AdwCleaner” did the job.

    Never could find “Browse2Save” anywhere in my computer files, BUT . . .

    I downloaded & ran AdwCleaner & have not been pestered by those Links in the middle of my article..

    Reply
  60. KnightCat says:
    December 28, 2012 at 5:20 am

    This is good but I have this malware on all my browsers,Chrome,firefox and exploder and it hasn’t been installed into any of my browsers or as a virus on my pc,I can’t find this bastard software anywhere on my pc and It not like I’m not tech savvy!! I know where to look but this bastard is hiding somewhere else and I can’t read any pages on Facebook because of it.

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  61. Stelian Pilici says:
    December 25, 2012 at 9:23 pm

    Hello J,
    Please check once again,is some cases this program might be renamed as Yontoo…..If you can’t find it, then go ahead with Step 2.

    Reply
  62. dina says:
    December 21, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    but i see in yahoo mail and facebook…i did all what u told me…but i dont see this in my computer….or in ggl….what should i do….

    Reply
  63. Nicholas says:
    December 16, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    Thank you!this was easy!

    Reply
  64. Mike says:
    December 15, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    It worked perfectly for my Firefox!thanks

    Reply
  65. Steven says:
    December 6, 2012 at 10:17 pm

    Thanks a lot, Did a scan with Avast and Malware bytes, and still it remained poping up on my Facebook page in Firefox, Reset my firefox and now its gone ! yay :D

    Reply

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