avast and sweetIM - avoid!

I made a mistake downloading Avast with the provided SweetIM installer. Why Avast allows this is a mystery. I told the installer I didn’t want to install any of it’s products and it did so anyway. I spent hours getting rid of it. SweetIM hijacked my Firefox default Google search engine choice. That thing is a mess! >:( Why would Avast allow SweetIM to download?

Where did you download it from ? Avast only bundles Chrome if you want it

Please provide the URL,

I think this may be a pirated version. The get modified many ways when they are NOT legit!

I think essexboy is thinking along the lines of download bundling as has been seen on download.com, a.k.a. cnet.com.

They have a download installer that bundles other software with what you want to download, but I don’t believe they do that with avast.