Browsing icon - Firefox

What on earth is this icon I often (but not always!) get while browsing? (see attachment) I know what sites are safe and which ones aren’t I don’t need some icon to tell me so. If it’s Avast, how do I turn it off permanently?

All help gratefully accepted

Related to AOS, click on the green “a” to adjust the settings.

OK, thanks for your reply, but I’ve been to settings, which I presume you mean. HEree is a screen shot of my settings. What more can I turn off?

If you don’t want AOS, disable it in FF Add-ons.

It’s not in add-ons. It doesn’t exist. I don’t think it’s part of FF - it showed up when I installed Avast. It’s not an extension, it’s not a plugin, and I don’t have anything in the add-ons at all, though FF wants to introduce me to some.

  1. Control Panel → Add/Remove programs → avast! → change/uninstall
  2. Click on ‘Change’.
  3. Untick Browser security and click OK.
  4. Reboot.

Yep, worked great. Thanks v. much

You’re welcome.