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 RocketTab by RocketTab. 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.