We STRONGLY recommend you remove browserprotect.exe – it’s unstable, unsafe and is possibly tracking your behaviour. You should remove it, use the instructions below to get rid off it
Removing BrowserProtect.exe
1. Step You may be victim of a plugin called browserprotect.exe if you are experiencing extremely high CPU usage on Windows 8
When you open the Windows 8 task manager and go to “Details”, you can probably see it among one of the busiest processes along with Firefox going crazy
2. Step You can now kill that process
3. Step Then hit CTRL + F on your keyboard and enter Control Panel – if you’re on Windows 7, simply go to the Control Panel
4. Step Click on Programs and Features
5. Step WARNING: Close Firefox, then right-click on BrowserProtect and click Uninstall
6. Step If you’re prompted that it may not be correctly uninstalled, try the compatibility uninstall
7. Step To make sure it has been completely removed go to your AppData folder and open the Roaming folder – do you see any traces of BrowserProtect? Run the uninstall.exe again or remove the files
8. This should be it
Without the browserprotect.exe you can safely launch Firefox again and enjoy a low CPU usage