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.
Hello Sew,
We have checked the conversation that you had with our social media team in Facebook.
We have checked with our product specialist team and they have confirmed that AVG secure browser will not get installed automatically.
The only possible thing that would have happened is that the few seconds delay in the appearance of the check boxes with the tick mark to install and make AVG secure browser as default, once the AVG Antivirus has been updated.
We request you to refer the below image which will show you the screen that I referred here:
We suggest customers to wait for the content appearing on this screen and then click on "continue", so that they don't miss what is being installed after clicking on continue.
However, we apologize for the inconvenience that you experienced on this matter. If you have our AVG Antivirus free program installed, open its program interface and click on "Menu–>About–>Submit Feedback" to submit a feedback regarding this.
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.
CCleaner advised me this morning, when I tried to run it, that my AVG search browser was open and had to be closed. I didn't open it, and as far as I knew, I didn't have it. I googled "AVG search browser virus" and the first link I opened said it was mal-ware, then told me to open several "mal-ware" apps. I first checked my programs and found that I had an AVG search browser listed as installed on 1/28/2021. While I might have agreed to installing it, since I trust AVG, I was never given the opportunity to choose. This thread was orginally posted on July 31, 2018. It is now 2/3/21 and nothing has changed ! I can only assume that AVG support system is broken and the well meaning above responders have not referred the problem upstream to the developer's team and followed up on the complaint to its concusion.
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.
Ok, so I reported this to the facebook support group LAST YEAR, who told me they were going to pass concerns onto the developers.
I took that as an 'Alright, they'll do something', which obviously wasn't a well placed thought, as yet again, I have had to remove that browser from the PC. The browser makes changes to file associations, and removes many apps associations to force the opening of AVG 'Secure browser'.
There is no prompting, there is no need for this browser, and there sure as heck isn't any communication with the developers.
I am absolutely removing AVG from my network now, as really, I shouldn't have to monitor my anti-virus for malware-esque actions.
I have apps installed that do what I want and to find "Secure Browser" taking over the associations for no reason whatsoever, and without ANY prompting, is just straight up annoying, and not worth my time to deal with.
When this networks imaging is done, AVG will be done here... I'm not happy with ANY of the responses that have been passed on to me. I'm not impressed with the way this software simply installs itself, seemingly around the time of Windows updating itself as well.
This, is the common timing of it... Every time that windows does a big update that AVG needs to be updated as well, mysteriously AVG tags along and updates, installing this crud.
AV shouldn't need a browser at all, but the mistake this company makes, is thinking it's needed. To which that's a whole lot of PCs which will no longer have AVG installed on it.
I will also be spreading my concerns to others, as really, no-one should have to have this happen to them...
AVG just lost a hardcore 20 year user... Thanks for screwing my machines up without prompting. Truely awesome indication of how good this product is.
Not malware in the sense that it will do significant harm to one's computer but sneaky and leaves a bad taste on one's mouth. I clicked on a link today and got what looked like a recent Chome layout. I was confused because this had not happened before. I suspect that, even though it shows as having been installed 6/18/18, something happened very recently that made the program my default browser. I called support and was unable to get any clear explanation as to how this happened, how it is supposed to happen, etc… The agent told me several contradictory things after which I gave up and terminated the call. Really not good PR on AVG's part. Much better to ask permission (and I don't mean sneaking in a checkbox in the corner of some window that has to be unchecked in order to stop the unwanted application from being launched).