Warning to all users: Avast free installs malware known as “Avast Secure Browser”.
I will uninstall all Avast products promptly, and treat avast products as malware moving forward.
Thanks for violating my trust
Also Avast Antivirus seems like it won’t uninstall, I will use revo uninstaller, and then maybe wipe the workstation, thanks for the additional headache too.
In another thread, they say they stopped doing this, but this happened today, so they’re obviously lying and completely untrustworthy
Lol, is this a joke? avast Secure Browser is avast! product, not malware. XD
It’s nothing I installed, or asked to be installed, avast seem to install it without permission, and it went around uac, although avast may feel justified installing whatever they want on my pc, I don’t feel the same way.
Avast simply launched an installer as I turned on my computer, all beneath the radar with no prompts or notifications at all…
Certainly any software that does that is malware, maybe a rootkit
It’s an avast! product. It’s part of the package. And you actually agreed with it when you installed avast!. If you don’t like it, uninstall it. It can be done individually for every component of avast!.
It is NOT part of the package I downloaded or installed, it was sideloaded without permission long after I installed avast, and has nothing to do with virus scanning. It’s not like, they added a cloud scanning feature to avast or something, web browsing is a completely different kind of software, if I want to download a browser, I will do it willingly and install it myself, browsers forced on my desktop are malware.
Also, it may be buried somewhere in the fine print and I didn’t notice; it’s still unwanted malware. A Legal document is not the place to notify users of pending installations, that should be done by the user, and the user should load it if he/she wants it, putting it in your legal document instead of somewhere sane just shows Avast cares nothing for their users control of their computers, Avast will just push things on them without asking, because it’s in their document, that’s absolutely pitiful and disgusting of Avast and the company, and to prevent it from happening again, I have no choice but to wipe all avast products from my computers.
If someone punches you in the face, that doesn’t make it a good thing, regardless of what reasoning the person who threw the punch has, and this is certainly a punch in the face, a violation of trust, and completely unacceptable to install unwanted malware on machines which need scanning virus removal, it’s just contrary to common sense.
Certainly I have already wiped all Avast products from my machines, including the paid registered versions, and will seek a refund for those, as well as recommending the same to everyone I know, as I don’t want to help them clean malware off their system, hopefully no one I know has been hit by this infection.