Avast opens Browser on Windows Boot Up

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My company uses Avast Endpoint Protection Suite Plus (8.0.1603), and every time I boot up my PC I’m presented with a browser window pointing to a URL that starts “https://program.avast.com”. The URL is very long, contains information about my PC (I can the computer alias/name is in there), and the webpage display itself is completely blank.

This is relatively new, happening each day now for only about two weeks. I was hoping it was an error and that a software update was coming to stop it, but nothing so far. No-one else in the office sees this, it’s only on my computer. Avast itself doesn’t do anything visibly (no pop ups etc. to explain what’s happening), so I can’t quiz it to figure out why it does this.

What’s going on?

I’m running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a DELL laptop.

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Bump

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well this forum sucks :frowning:

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Hi,

  • Log in to the Small Office Administration Console
  • Click the “Network” menu item
  • You should be on “Group View” automatically, but if not, click that menu item underneath “Network”.
  • Click the “Edit group settings” button, it will be on the right above the computer icons.
  • At the bottom of the list is “Expert settings”

The full property path you want to find is avastcfg://avast5/Common/ShowChrome.

I hope it works for you too.