Who's running this company? There are no real responses to this thread, and it's obvious all your doing with these responses saying you understand but then providing a screw you response is irritiating your customers. Whoever is monitoring this can only respond with "provide feedback through a particular link"? Your company is abusing the good will and trust that was gatherered over the years. The update trick is an obvious one that Adobe loves to do with Acrobat where it installs McAfee. You're just doing a poor man's version of the same thing, really pathetic As soon as I send this, I expect one of the macros that your tech group with EASL has setup on their machine. Guys pay attention for just a minute. Your jobs are due to people here believing and trusting in a product. your tme is limited in how long this.charade will go on. it's the tech version of get woke, go broke, very underhanded. Cant wait to see the response which will be give us feedback. no thanks, plenty of other reputable products out there. Just upset that I let you trick me, well as they say, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, you're de-installed.
Bob, did you recently install or reinstalled AVG AntiVirus free or AVG Internet Security? Because there is high chance AVG Secure Browser is offered during the welcome page of the installation setup.
We do provide a check box for customers who are willing to opt out from installing AVG Secure Browser. We apologize if you overlooked it.
A forced installation and takeover are the actions of malware. I had to remove this malware today as well as it not authorized to be installed by me. It occured during a reboot this morning.
Interesting that I too just noticed this "malware". Following the answer provided above, I tried to disable it from the start up process. Nothing happens when I click on "disable". I can disable other processes from start up, but not AVG secure browser. It makes me feel like my computer has been hijacked.
I am not at all happy that AVG has automatically installed the Secure Browser. AVG mut have updated itself and installed it by default. I have no recollection of being offered any choice on this. This is not good at all!
Hello Caelan,
You need not worry about the application as it is our legit newly launched browser.
By default, secure browser will be checked when you startup the installation of AVG Internet Security.
If you do not check the box for secure browser, it will not get installed.
To know more about AVG Secure Browser, refer this (FAQ).
Thanks.
Hyper shame on you. It was really as Conraad said. Used to be the greatest… you are now not so good.
Hi All.
Yes i to wound up with the AVG Secure Browser installing itself automatically today on 09/01/19.
As my AVG showed that the PROGRAM was out of date all i did was clicked the UPDATE BUTTON.
I did not ask for PERMISSION TO INSTALL the AVG SECURE BROWSER.
I did not recieve a check box or anything else asking for my permission to install it.
To top it all of it even created a BSOD and my computer would no longer boot to the OS.
Tried booting normally and tried booting into SAFE MODE which failed many times as well.
Finally after trying to boot Win 7 Pro Sp1 six times i was finally able to get into SAFE MODE.
From there i was able to rectify the boot issue and finally got my OS to boot once again.
As many users point out it takes them quite by suprise and it has all the hall marks of a BROWSER HIJACKER even though it is not.
It even took over all my pdf files that i have saved which all showed OPEN WITH THE AVG SECURE BROWSER.
As i did not want this i had to revert all these back in the DEFAULT PROGRAMS and re-organise them and change the folder icons back to default pdf as they were recognised as HTLM. by the AVG SECURE BROWSER.
I have no issue with the AVG SECURE BROWSER but please give us a WARNING and the OPTION before hand of whether WE WANT or DONT WANT TO INSTALL IT…
Now that i have set it up accordingly to my taste after many hours of frustration i do see some of its potential and benefits with blocking adds and secure browsing.
I will keep using it as a seperate browser whilst still using IE and GOOGLE CHROME in their standard settings without the AVG ADD IN…
This i call a given choice.
All i ask is to be given that choice and not for programs to make that choice for you automatically unless we request it.
I still respect AVG as a AV product as have used it since it came out and it has always proved to generaly work quite quickly and efficiently.
Sorry for necroposting,
but AVG Secure Browser is a PUP/grayware and I highly suggest uninstalling it, (alongside AVG) and switch to a better browser, (and a better AV) such as Chrome, Firefox, or Brave. (and Kaspersky, Bitdefender, or Panda)
Hope this helps,
I don't want AVG to know my username.
Update: I have also reported this issue to "AVG Internet Security > Menu > About > Report a bug", following the suggestion of Midhun Aloor and other AVG supporters.
This isn't the experience we want you to have, Coenraad. Appreciate your valuable feedback.
Our developers are already aware of it & this might be taken into consideration in the upcoming updates.
Thank you for writing this to us. Have a great day. Stay safe!
After reading these comments, I checked "no" when AVG asked if I wanted to install the Secure Browser. Lo and behold, I checked my programs, and it had already been installed! Agree. SHAME ON YOU! not cool.
Coenraad, we understand your concern.
We could see that you are totally unhappy with the check boxes which comes along with the update popup.
So, please provide us the feedback to our developers through your AVG program.
It will help us to improve the product and you may expect to remove this check boxes in the future update.
You apologize? like this has never happened before. It is a force installation! Am I correct?
Thank you for answer.
As many others, I was blindsided with this browser download. My employer requires me to use Google Chrome…aside from changing my homepage (which AVG has pulled in the past), my assumption was that it was still Google Chrome. But it wasn't. I later realized this and it caused me to lose three working hours. I've lost all trust in AVG with the continual sneaky crap.
Very helpful informatio. I am a new user of AVG VPN. Once, I installed this VPN, the safe browser automatically installed in my system without my permission. Can anyone explain why this is happen? I read a complete guide about this VPN (https://www.comparemyvpn.com), but couldnt get more information.
I have always used AVG as my preferred anti-virus and I was happy with it for a long time. Switched to Macbook for a while and now that I'm back to using Windows I thought I should use my favorite AV, until I realised it was not as good as before. Software should get better overtime not worse. I have been reading the forum and AVG advised to just uninstall the AVG browser if you don't want it in your PC. I did that and restarted my PC and behold, the AVG bowser got reinstalled automaticaly. Now uninstalling AVG and will never trust it again.
Same thing happened to me.
I will NEVER use an AVG product again. Sneaky ways to get apps installed is the hallmark of malware. So AVG using an installation "default" tricked me into installing a "secure browser" that looks just like Chrome. But here is the kicker. This "secure browser" comes with two pre-installed chrome extensions that give total access to these AVG extensions. Holy %$#@!. This is a total violation of user trust. Shame on you.
I am pretty darn careful, but this got by me, and I do not feel good about it. I have been running a modified Chrome browser with mystery extensions on it for several months at least.
Arghhhhhh!!!
I have now uninstalled the so-called AVG secure browser and will uninstall anything else from AVG,
shortly.
Very helpful informatio. I am a new user of AVG VPN. Once, I installed this VPN, the safe browser automatically installed in my system without my permission. Can anyone explain why this is happen? I read a complete guide about this VPN (https://www.comparemyvpn.com), but couldnt get more information.
Nice and useful discussion. I am a new user of AVG VPN. Once, I installed this VPN, the safe browser automatically installed in my system without my permission. Can anyone explain why this is happen? I read a complete guide about this VPN, but unable to find out any related thing in it.
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