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Avast Secure Browser Installed Without Permission!
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A few days ago Avast Secure Browser started loading at startup with my PC. I thought it was built in to Avast Free Antivirus. So today after the 3rd startup with it showing I decided to go in to the settings of the Antivirus to disable it. But it turns out it's a separate program that had been installed without my knowledge or permission! Not only that but it automatically set itself to run at startup AND SET ITSELF AS THE DEFAULT BROWSER!
These are actions of MALWARE! Why are you forcing your browser on people like this and doing in a way that behaves as suspiciously as malware software you protect us from?
I do not want or need your browser, I have Firefox with 2 addons that I have trusted to protect me in my browsing for years and I will continue to use that thank you very much. I would never have opted to have your browser installed had I been given the choice.
For this I will no longer be recommending Avast to people asking for my help as a PC technician. Doing something like this behind the user's back is as bad as malware because we are supposed to trust you!
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Same happened to me! They installed this shit without even ASKING me! It just came up after I booted the computer. How DARE they install something without my consent!
I have just uninstalled this brower thing, and Avast will follow - it will be uninstalled before they decide to install something else without my permission. No more Avast for any of these computers here.
Asyn:
If you are unhappy with this version or you no longer wish to have a browser by Avast installed on your machine you can follow steps here https://support.avast.com/article/30/ to uninstall it from your computer.
-> https://download.avastbrowser.com/avast_secure_browser_uninstall.exe
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--- Quote from: Asyn on June 11, 2018, 10:39:39 AM ---If you are unhappy with this version or you no longer wish to have a browser by Avast installed on your machine you can follow steps here https://support.avast.com/article/30/ to uninstall it from your computer.
-> https://download.avastbrowser.com/avast_secure_browser_uninstall.exe
--- End quote ---
"...unhappy with this version"??? What I'm unhappy about, like all the others who posted here and in other threads, is that you installed something as important as a BROWSER, not only without my permission, but made it my DEFAULT browser with no way of changing that! No Install screens, no warning, no way to choose preferences or KEEP my original default browser! And nothing on the Settings page to change back to my original one! If I didn't even have your older browser installed, WHY would you even dump a new one on me?
WTF, people, is this your usual way of doing business? Does the word "hijack" mean anything to you? Obviously not. Now I've got to Uninstall your browser just to get my old default one back and hope and pray to high heaven that the uninstall doesn't take all the shortcuts and folders you've taken over (see "hijack" above), again WITHOUT any permission or choice whatsoever from me. If those disappear you're going to have one extremely p1ssed old broad telling all and sundry on every message board I post at just what to expect from Avast. "Free antivirus" doesn't give you the right to hijack an important part of my system!
Asyn:
You can submit your feedback in "About Avast".
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