Thank you for those who have voiced their issue with us, we always try to provide the best products and services for our users. It sounds like some have not had a good experience, I would be grateful if some of you could help assist us with this.
To clarify, you will only receive the browser in the following scenarios:
- If you had SafeZone Browser installed on your machine you will have been automatically updated. Unlike the old SafeZone Browser you can uninstall Avast Secure Bowser independently of the Antivirus.
- You accepted an offer to install the browser from the Avast Antivirus. This could have been on the first page of the installer of the Antivirus or from a post-update screen.
Aside from installing the browser from our product page or other website these are the only circumstances you should receive the browser. If an install occurred outside of these channels then there is a serious issue that we will need to investigate.
If you think think this applies to you would you be able to provide us with some more detailed diagnostics. This will help us investigate this issue further.
Please use the following steps:
Open the browser and click on the menu icon (3 dots)
Click on "Help and About Avast Secure Browser" and then "About Avast Secure Browser"
Click on "Diagnostic Information" (this will open a pop-up window)
Click the "COPY TO CLIPBOARD" button to capture the information
Please let me know if you have any problems accessing this information.
Thank you.
I believe I allowed the install a while back because, hey it's Avast, i'll give it a go at some point. The problem is, why in the world would you have it automatically turn on and launch at startup? I'm not even using the browser, but have had it revert to "on at startup" a number of times. As others have pointed out, this acts more like Malware, and is not something I'd expect coming from a security company. I'm also surprised at the initial responses in this thread from moderators (I'm assuming these are employee's of Avast?), basically ignoring the stated issues. This one, in my opinion, more properly addresses the issues and shows concern and an interest to fix the problem.
Lol, on a side note, this should be the last post I have to deal with the horrible captcha verification this forum uses. But when I go to type the letters in the box, it opens up the past responses to auto-fill ina pop-up above the box... covering up the captcha box I'm trying to read...