The sequence of facts I regret and showing why I ask you guys ... how to avoid Google Chrome install and messleft:
Avast makes the favor to ask to update ... i say all right (I would even click on a "Thank you" icon)
It updates .. and then it appears that I have a new browser I didn't ask for (Yep .. Google Chrome)
I erase it through the control panel and ....
Avast tells me that the browser I didn't want G,Chrome.. had not been quite well erased
Avast ask's me if I want to buy an upgraded Avast that can clean all the mess the uninstallation of Google Chrom left
I got no money .. what I have left is to ask you
How to prevent Avast updates to install Google Chrome again, without notifying me?
Thank you so much
The above post by
artra was made in the wrong subforum, so that's probably why nobody ever responded to it. However, the same issue happened today to me, so I decided to quote their post and add my own experience (and hopefully get a reply to the both of us). Here are the details:
1) I updated an existing occurrence of Avast.
2) Chrome was installed (As far as I can tell, without my permission. I'm willing to revert my system and rerun step #1 to confirm this).
3) I uninstalled Chrome through the Control Panel.
4) Avast then warns me that the uninstall was incomplete, and then when I click on the link to "completely" remove the traces of Chrome (all registry entries) effectively tries to sell me a program to remove the install (that I did not want to begin with).
This is not behavior I expect from a program that is supposed to protect me. In fact it's behavior that comes to close to malware that 'infects' a system and then tries to sell a program to clean up the infection (yes I know that Chrome is not an infection, but it is something I don't want on this system).
Please respond to our posts, and tell me if the install of Chrome on my system could have been done without my approval (and if so, why is this permitted?).
Thanks.