Safe Price Addition To Avast - Are You Kidding Me?

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Thank you for the OP.  I am just casting my vote to say I'm appalled to find a sleazy price finder on my toolbar!  Why not just put porn on my tool bar and when I complain respond with "Just remove it"   You miss the point of protection-ware.  Definitely seeking alternatives. Trust has been betrayed.

[bob3160]

Thank you for the OP.  I am just casting my vote to say I'm appalled to find a sleazy price finder on my toolbar!  Why not just put porn on my tool bar and when I complain respond with "Just remove it"   You miss the point of protection-ware.  Definitely seeking alternatives. Trust has been betrayed.

I think you missed the point that this in no way compromises your protection. It's an additional feature that you can either choose to use or loose.

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Apologies for bumping this back to life but I needed to vent my frustration with safe price as well. I carefully selected "custom" installation for Avast! Free AV 2015. I selected only the shields and web protection. Nowhere did Avast offer any info regarding this safe price crap. I understand that I can uninstall the web protection option and I certainly shall but I am actually appalled that my AV program would include such nonsense at all ... never mind without full disclosure upfront. To hide it in "web protection" is so ironic as to be almost laughable ... except I'm not laughing.

I was a loyal user of Avast for about 10 years. In 2013-2014 I became discouraged with all the bloat and incompatibilities that surfaced. I was hoping Avast straightened out its act in the past 2 years but I can see it hasn't. Too bad. It was such a reliable program for so long ...

Goodbye again and for the last time Avast.

[bob3160]

Apologies for bumping this back to life but I needed to vent my frustration with safe price as well. I carefully selected "custom" installation for Avast! Free AV 2015. I selected only the shields and web protection. Nowhere did Avast offer any info regarding this safe price crap. I understand that I can uninstall the web protection option and I certainly shall but I am actually appalled that my AV program would include such nonsense at all ... never mind without full disclosure upfront. To hide it in "web protection" is so ironic as to be almost laughable ... except I'm not laughing.

I was a loyal user of Avast for about 10 years. In 2013-2014 I became discouraged with all the bloat and incompatibilities that surfaced. I was hoping Avast straightened out its act in the past 2 years but I can see it hasn't. Too bad. It was such a reliable program for so long ...

Goodbye again and for the last time Avast.

Hope the venting made you feel better sjesme2.
SafePrice is a separate module.
It isn't part of OnlineSecurity at all:

It is not a part of Avast Online Security. You only get it if you choose to download it.

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Bob,

In Firefox Safeprice is part of Avast Online Security, and not a seperate module you can choose ( not ) to install.
However you can deselect it if you don't want to use it.

Greetz, Red.

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It actually did make me feel a little better Bob ... Thanks

Nonetheless, whatever you've shown in your post was not an option for me. It did not appear on the custom installation screen and I found no reference whatsoever to it once the installation was up and running. I checked both within the program and on manage add-ons (IE10). Zip, nada, nuttin, nowhere.

Further, when I changed the installation to remove web protection, safe price magically disappeared.

Perhaps it is because I have the free version? Otherwise, I am at a loss to explain it.

[bob3160]

It actually did make me feel a little better Bob ... Thanks

Nonetheless, whatever you've shown in your post was not an option for me. It did not appear on the custom installation screen and I found no reference whatsoever to it once the installation was up and running. I checked both within the program and on manage add-ons (IE10). Zip, nada, nuttin, nowhere.

Further, when I changed the installation to remove web protection, safe price magically disappeared.

Perhaps it is because I have the free version? Otherwise, I am at a loss to explain it.

In IE, simply follow these instructions:

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Oh. My. Goodness. Avast certainly buried it well! Thank you VERY much for the step-by-step explanation; I now feel totally sheepish but am happy to gain the benefit of your patience and knowledge.

*bow*

And now I must go reinstall the web protection module! *slinks off*

 

[bob3160]

Happy to help.

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Perhaps its because I'm using chrome but I don't see the same image as posted above.

In regards to the safe price function.. I was shocked it is built in to a malware/antivirus program and it has put me on guard a bit. (I will be keeping an eye out for another product with less "in your face" stuff. 
And while it may not be related, I lost all my bookmarks and login settings about the same time my evaluation period expired on the full Avast suite.  Just saying.

Perhaps I'll be considered old fashioned, but I figure a company that focuses on one thing usually means it does it really well.  A company that tries to be all things to all people may loose focus on the core product.  Just my opinion.
I noticed more popup ads from Avast also.
The Safe price popup tool bar provides incorrect information.. not all items it offered where the same or even a lower price and in my case they are not even in my country!

Back to the image I don't have the option to enable disable like the previous post shows.  Improvement or just different for different browser?
Just pointing it out for others.

[bob3160]

Did you click on the More Settings option
(Safe Price doesn't come with AOS)

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Did you click on the More Settings option



(Safe Price doesn't come with AOS)

I was just pointing out that it's not the same in Chrome or it has changed since your original post.  The functions are still there you just have to drill down to "more settings"

I don't know what AOS is. 

[bob3160]

Did you click on the More Settings option



(Safe Price doesn't come with AOS)

I was just pointing out that it's not the same in Chrome or it has changed since your original post.  The functions are still there you just have to drill down to "more settings"

I don't know what AOS is.

AOS = Avast Online Security.
My screenshot was taken after I pressed on More Options.

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As the official Avast blog on this subject is now 404, I will re-post my comment to company representative Deborah Salmi here.

Deborah,
Just out of curiosity, are you able to tell me how many customers you have lost through Avast's promotion and use of the exact type of adware we have previously used your program to prevent?

I am a Firefox user, so please do me the courtesy of telling me how I can REMOVE this software. I have no wish to have adware of any type on my machine, or those of my clients, so please don't give me any malarkey about how I can "disable" it when its mere presence and the fact that it was installed by a formerly trustworthy antivirus company is totally unacceptable.

You mention in this blog that you "need to find a way to communicate this better." This tells me that you are more concerned with spin than fixing this issue, so like so many other posters on this blog, I will be leaving Avast.

Goodbye.

[Eddy]

horton,

besides not having read this thread and not have learned about the options/settings that avast is offering...
What is your question/problem ?