Avast detects "Unnecessary applications"

ehmen · 2015-09-27T01:45:39.000Z

Avast is telling me that I have 22 Unnecessary (“System toolbar”) applications in this registry folder:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\PreApproved
They all have long names with random characters.

Does anyone know what they are and whether they should be deleted as Avast suggests?

Thank you.

davexnet · 2015-09-27T16:05:28.000Z

See the responses in this thread, then you can make up your own mind:
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=175895.msg1248316#msg1248316

ehmen · 2015-09-27T21:05:56.000Z

davexnet post:2:

See the responses in this thread, then you can make up your own mind:
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=175895.msg1248316#msg1248316

Thank you, very helpful.
Though I don’t use “Grime fighter”, I was considering whether or not to manually delete those “Toolbars”, but if it does no harm to keep them (contrary to what Avast says) I won’t bother with them.

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