Hello John,
We sincerely apologize for the inconveience caused.
Were you using our latest version 2016 of AVG program?
Our AVG Secure Search browser add-on will be installed through a popup from AVG and if you click on the popup it will get installed on your default browser. If you wish to uninstall it please follow the instructions mentioned in this link: http://avgread.me/1KLkDpN . If this doesn't help please do let us know we will help you to resolve it by giving our additional support.
After a brief explanation of issues, my question is following at the bottom:
I have been an AVG user for many years. Probably dating back to 2000. I have been using both the free versions, as well as the paid Business Solutions for my company. Yet at this point, I truly think I have lost all faith in AVG as a legitimate antivirus suite for many reasons.
Firstly, the AVG toolbar and search has installed on every PC without consent. No boxes were ever checked for this feature during installation. Special care was taken, specifically, so that the AVG toolbar and search was never installed. This is equal to malware and was surprisingly difficult to remove. That is highly unacceptable from a professional software company. Strike 1.
Secondly, on the free versions of AVG protection, popup advertisements have become outrageously a nuisance. All notifications have been disabled, yet the popup ads appear every 5 to 10 minutes. Interrupting productivity while working as well as entertainment purpuses such as watching movies or gaming. A few popups, once a week, is acceptable for free software. What is currently happening, is not acceptable business practices. Strike 2.
Thirdly, AVG Business Solutions was hogging so many resources, it had become unacceptable to use in a professional environment. Spam/virus emails were not being detected from spoofing sources, as well. Advertisements were also pushing me to add additional unwanted features. Strike 3.
Fourthly, even AVG's forums have been hijacked by spammers that are posting nonsense advertisements and such. No antivirus company can be taken seriously when their own forums are being spammed so much, that it is impossible to locate legitimate threads. Youre out.
Avg has now been unistalled on every computer related to personal and business use. It is sad that this company has strayed so far from it's original protection intent. Upon uninstallation, AVG snuck the toolbar and search malware on every PC that had ever used the software - which caused much additional headache to uninstall and remove all related files, completely.
AVG has become malware and is more taxing than most other malware/viruses that it is supposed to be protecting people from. Congratulations, AVG. You are officially as bad/worse than McAffe. That takes a special kind of moronic injudiciousness to achieve.
QUESTION: When AVG is using the above described business practices and feature failures; why on earth should myself, or anyone else on this planet, possibly trust this company (in both free or paid versions) over other suites that don't suffer from these deficiencies?
Hello John,
We sincerely apologize for the inconveience caused.
Were you using our latest version 2016 of AVG program?
Our AVG Secure Search browser add-on will be installed through a popup from AVG and if you click on the popup it will get installed on your default browser. If you wish to uninstall it please follow the instructions mentioned in this link: http://avgread.me/1KLkDpN . If this doesn't help please do let us know we will help you to resolve it by giving our additional support.
Please be informed that if you have our AVG free antivirus program installed you will be getting our legitimate business campaign popups to try our new AVG programs. You can share any further feedback at http://www.avg.com/product-feedback.
Recently we are facing the issues with the spam and we are aware of it and we have a special team working on it to stop those spams. Soon we will come up with a solution to fix those spam issues on our forums.