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Title: Are these legitimate pop-ups from Avast?
Post by: REDACTED on June 18, 2014, 06:13:55 PM
In the last few days I have been receiving pop-ups that seem to be from Avast. They say "We have identified the following browser add-on which has a bad reputation among Avast users." There is a prompt to remove the bad add-on. I have run scans but nothing shows, yet the warning still appears. Of course I would like to accept, but as I have never seen this before I am concerned. What should I do?
Title: Re: Are these legitimate pop-ups from Avast?
Post by: Pondus on June 18, 2014, 06:27:22 PM
yes .... and there are several posts about it here

Title: Re: Are these legitimate pop-ups from Avast?
Post by: REDACTED on June 18, 2014, 07:52:39 PM
This is Bull$t. This popup is unwanted. I do NOT have this software loaded. Also if you try to run, it want to load Yahoo has your search engine. It doesn't allow you to run this feature without accepting the Yahoo search. This is CRAP!!!!
Title: Re: Are these legitimate pop-ups from Avast?
Post by: Pondus on June 18, 2014, 07:55:10 PM
As we have posted several times around this forum, any avast module you dont want can be removed..

Title: Re: Are these legitimate pop-ups from Avast?
Post by: essexboy on June 18, 2014, 07:56:00 PM
Speeddial is a hidden addon in all browsers and is not something you want

Yep there is a problem with the reset of main search provider but that is being worked on

Please download AdwCleaner (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/) by Xplode onto your desktop.