What is WebInternetSecurity?

WebInternetSecurity is software application developed by Adknowledge, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 56.73% of installations running this operating system. WebInternetSecurity's installer is typically 5.00 MB in size and installs around 5 files.

WebInternetSecurity is most popular in the United States with 56.97% of installations residing in this country.

WebInternetSecurity adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About WebInternetSecurity?

The Plugin is designed to display third-party advertising as you browse the internet. This includes various types of ads such as sponsored links, banner ads, pop-unders, interstitial ads, coupons, and targeted video ads. These ads may appear in-text or in response to keyword searches on search engines like Google and Bing. The Plugin is distributed through Adknowledge's Fusion Installer and utilizes a local proxy server to inject ads. It is built on the same code-base as BrowserSafeguard, MaxWebSearch, and WebSearchy.

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:

uninstall.webinternetsecurity.exe is scheduled as a task named 'WebInternetSecurity Update Task' (runs daily at 13:14).

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

WebInternetSecurity.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'WebInternetSecurity' and executes as "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\WebInternetSecurity\WebInternetSecurity.exe".
uninstall.webinternetsecurity.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'WebInternetSecurity Update Task' and executes as "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\WebInternetSecurity\uninstall.webinternetsecurity.exe" /CheckUpdate=true.

Software Details

URL:

https://webinternetsecurity.com/legal/terms

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Webinternetsecurity

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\Webinternetsecurity\uninstall.webinternetsecurity.exe" /u /UserID=05329216-6081-4d7f-846a-e4e26c8a1fd6 /SourceID=webinternetsecurity

Size:

5.00 MB

Language:

English

WebInternetSecurity Executable Details

Primary executable:

WebInternetSecurity.exe

Name:

WebInternetSecurity

Path:

C:\Program Files\Webinternetsecurity\WebInternetSecurity.exe

MD5: