Birerawk Virus

Browser Hijacker
by Brandon Skies
June 20, 2023
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Birerawk

This page aims to help you remove Birerawk Virus . Our removal instructions work for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, as well as every version of Windows.

Birerawrk virus browser hijacker asking for permissions
Screenshot of the Birerawk virus asking for notifications

If there are ads and sudden page-redirects in your browser that are bothering you right now, there are basically two possible reasons why they are appearing on your screen. The first one is the sites you are visiting – as you likely know, most sites have ads in them that help their creators and owners earn income from their sites. The second potential reason for the appearance of the invasive advertising messages inside your Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Edge (or some other) browser is the presence of an adware or a browser hijacker app in the browsing program. These software categories are normally used as ad-generating tools that directly stream commercial messages inside the user’s browser regardless of what site the user is currently on. The difference between adware and hijackers is that the browser hijackers may also change your starting page, new-tab page, search engine, toolbar and other elements of the browser in order to make the ad-generation even more invasive and, in turn, more effective. After all, the whole idea of this aggressive advertising campaigns is to make the users interact with the advertisements which is the thing that earns money for the adware/browser hijacker owners.

SUMMARY:

NameBirerawk
Type Browser Hijacker
Detection Tool

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Please follow all the steps below in order to remove Birerawk!

How to remove Birerawk

  1. First, click the Start Menu on your Windows PC.
  2. Type Programs and Settings in the Start Menu, click the first item, and find Birerawk in the programs list that would show up.
  3. Select Birerawk from the list and click on Uninstall.
  4. Follow the steps in the removal wizard.

If you have a Mac virus, please use our How to remove Ads on Mac guide.

If you have an Android virus, please use our Android Malware Removal guide.

If you have an iPhone virus, please use our iPhone Virus Removal guide.

What we suggest you do first is, check the list of programs that are presently installed on the infected device and uninstall any rogue software that you find there:

  • From the Start Menu, navigate to Control Panel ->>> Programs and Features ->>> Uninstall a Program.
  • Next, carefully search for unfamiliar programs or programs that have been installed recently and could be related to Birerawk.
  • If you find any of the programs suspicious then uninstall them if they turn out to be linked to Birerawk.
  • If a notification appears on your screen when you try to uninstall a specific questionable program prompting you to just alter it or repair it, make sure you choose NO and complete the steps from the removal wizard.

Remove Birerawk from Chrome

  1. Click on the three dots in the right upper corner
  2. Go to more tools
  3. Now select extensions
  4. Remove the Birerawk extension
  • Once you open Chrome, click on the three-dots icon to open the browser’s menu, go to More Tools/ More Options, and then to Extensions.
  • Again, find the items on that page that could be linked to the malware and/or that might be causing problems in the browser and delete them.
  • Afterwards, go to this folder: Computer > C: > Users > *Your User Account* > App Data > Local > Google > Chrome > User Data. In there, you will find a folder named Default – you should change its name to Backup Default and restart the PC.
  • Note that the App Data folder is normally hidden so you’d have to first make the hidden files and folders on your PC visible before you can access it.

How to get rid of Birerawk on FF/Edge/etc.

  1. Open the browser and select the menu icon.
  2. From the menu, click on the Add-ons button.
  3. Look for the Birerawk extension
  4. Get rid of Birerawk by removing it from extensions

If using Firefox:

  • Open Firefox
  • Select the three parallel lines menu and go to Add-ons.
  • Find the unwanted add-on and delete it from the browser – if there is more than one unwanted extension, remove all of them.
  • Go to the browser menu again, select Options, and then click on Home from the sidebar to the left.
  • Check the current addresses for the browser’s homepage and new-tab page and change them if they are currently set to address(es) you don’t know or trust.

If using MS Edge/IE:

  • Start Edge
  • Select the browser menu and go to Extensions.
  • Find and uninstall any Edge extensions that look undesirable and unwanted.
  • Select Settings from the browser menu and click on Appearance.
  • Check the new-tab page address of the browser and if it has been modified by the malicious program or another unwanted app, change it to an address that you’d want to be the browser’s new-tab page.

How to Delete Birerawk

  1. Open task manager
  2. Look for the Birerawk process
  3. Select it and click on End task
  4. Open the file location to delete Birerawk
  • Access the Task Manager by pressing together the Ctrl + Alt + Del keys and then selecting Task Manager.
  • Open Processes and there try to find a process with the name of the unwanted software. If you find it, select it with the right button of the mouse and click on the Open File Location option.
  • If you don’t see a malicious process in the Task Manager, look for another suspicious process with an unusual name. It is likely that the unwanted process would be using lots of RAM and CPU so pay attention to the number of resources each process is using.
  • Tip: If you think you have singled out the unwanted process but are not sure, it’s always a good idea to search for information about it on the Internet – this should give you a general idea if the process is a legitimate one from a regular program or from your OS or if it is indeed likely linked to the adware.
  • If you find another suspicious process, open its File Location too.
  • Once in the File Location folder for the suspicious process, start testing all of the files that are stored there by dragging them to our free online scanner available below.
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    • If the scanner finds malware in any of the files, return to the Processes tab in the Task Manager, select the suspected process, and then select the End Process option to quit it.
    • Go back to the folder where the files of that process are located and delete all of the files that you are allowed to delete. If all files get deleted normally, exit the folder and delete that folder too. If one or more of the files showed an error message when you tried to delete them, leave them for now and return to try to delete them again once you’ve completed the rest of the guide.

    How to Uninstall Birerawk

    1. Click on the home button
    2. Search for Startup Apps
    3. Look for Birerawk in there
    4. Uninstall Birerawk from Startup Apps by turning it off
    • Now you need to carefully search for and uninstall any Birerawk-related entries from the Registry. The easiest way to do this is to open the Registry Editor app (type Regedit in the windows search field and press Enter) and then open a Find dialog (CTRL+F key combination) where you have to type the name of the threat. 
    • Perform a search by clicking on the Find Next button and delete any detected results. Do this as many times as needed until no more results are found. 
    • After that, to ensure that there are no remaining entries lined to Birerawk in the Registry, go manually to the following directories and delete them:
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Random Directory. 
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run/Random
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/Random

    What is Birewark?

    Here, our focus will be an app named Birerawk which a lot of users have made complaints about – this app is a typical browser hijacker as it is known to make unwanted changes in the browser as well as spam it with ads, pop-ups, page-redirect hyperlinks and other invasive content. Most users are displeased by this type of activities and want the hijacker removed. However, it may sometimes be a bit tricky to properly and fully uninstall Birerawk and that is why we will give you a guide that will help you with the full removal of the annoying Birerawk application:


    Is Birewark dangerous?

    Although the browser hijacker apps like Searhmenow.gg, Pro Captcha Hub or Pretiumlook are typically legal and non-harmful applications, they are still software pieces that tend to do something in your computer that you don’t want them to. In this case, this thing is the introduction of unwanted changes in the browser and the generation of random ads and page-redirects. This could, potentially, lead to some unwanted consequences such as the exposure to unsafe web addresses. In the worst case scenario, you may even get redirected to some phishing page or a malware-infested site with Trojans or Ransomware cryptoviruses in it. Naturally, the wise thing to do in order to prevent this from happening would be to uninstall Aqua1man.net, which is exactly the thing that we would advise you to do next. You really do not need an infection with some insidious Ransomware infection in your computer and due to this we believe that it is best to take this matter into your own hands and get rid of the invasive app when there is still enough time to do it. If you have any questions you’d like to ask us with regards to this unwanted hijacker, you can write us in the comments section and we will do our best to answer you in the most helpful way we can.


    About the author

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    Brandon Skies

    Brandon is a researcher and content creator in the fields of cyber-security and virtual privacy. Years of experience enable him to provide readers with important information and adequate solutions for the latest software and malware problems.

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