I can’t for the life of me figure out how to disable or uninstall Safe Price. The two previous posts on the subject do not provide the answer. Please help me get rid of it before I have to get rid of Avast altogether.
Two previous posts?
This is your first post here!
If you don’t want the “safe price”, just remove the plug-in from your browser.
How? I use Chrome, and it is not listed in the plug-ins or in the extensions.
Do you have a plugin from avast called AOS?
If so SafePrice should be in the menu there.
From the main website :
avast! SafePrice is a part of avast! Online Security web browser protection plugin for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer which suggests better prices for users when they are on shopping sites. It can be enabled or disabled directly in the settings of avast! Online Security web browser protection plugin.
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: there are other people posting questions about SafePrice 
I have searched the forum and there has been no answer to the question, at least not for Chrome. It is pure spam that takes up real estate at the top of the page, it should not be an irremovable part of an anti-virus program. Someone must have an answer to how to get rid of it.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=143068.msg1037463#msg1037463
Or in Chrome open: chrome://extensions/
Click options for the AOS
In Firefox, clicking the green circle icon on the top right toolbar opens a Safeprice window on the right. Open the settings button, and you have an option to disable the Safeprice function while leaving the other security functions enabled.
Wow. Does not reading for comprehension and sarcastically answering legitimate questions make you feel better. Useless aren’t you.
I am having the same problem using Firefox 27.0.1, that is that I cannot disable “Safe Price”. There is a green circle icon in the upper right corner of the navigation toolbar which is unlabeled. I assume it is for the Avast Online Security Plugin settings. If I left-click on that circle, there is no window which opens up for Safe Price settings, either on the right or anywhere else on my screen. In fact, nothing at all happens when I left-click on that Icon.
When I go to Firefox “Add-ons” there is NO plugin listed for Avast in the list of plugins. There is an EXTENSION for Avast! Online Security (9.0.2013.75) installed however but there are no settings available for it. The only option available for it is to either enable/disable it. I tried disabling that extension but I still got the “Safe Price” popup when I searched for products.
Finally, I opened the Avast user interface itself and searched through all of the settings in ALL of the categories on the left. I could not find anything at all in any of those categories and settings which addressed Safe Price.
Right now I am completely stumped and cannot find any way whatsoever to disable Safe Price. It seems to me that at least on my system, the only way I can remove or disable it is by uninstalling Avast completely. Is there something I am missing? I am using Avast Free 2014.9.0.2013.
Me too. How the hell do I remove this thing? I’m also running Avast Free 2014.9.0.2013 with Firefox 27.0.1. The only extension listed in Firefox is “Avast! Online Security 9.0.2013.75”…which has NO settings. You can only enable/disable it.
Clicking the green circle to the upper right allows me to rate a site, and has options to to allow/block tracking from social networks, ad tracking, web analytics and others. There IS a settings button at the bottom of this page, but clicking on it does nothing. Nothing at all happens when I click the settings button from the green circle page!
I’ve searched everywhere in Avast for Safe Price, but found nothing.
As a follow up to my previous post, I finally contacted Avast technical support and this is the response I received from them today, February 27, 2014:
"Unfortunately we are working to solve this issue in Firefox 27, it should be solved soon. The extension cannot be removed in this particular version of Firefox.
Best regards,
Richard Šrank
avast! Technical Support Specialist"
Same problem: Firefox 27.0.1, Avast 2014.9.0.2013
Avast has 24 hours to fix or this gets yanked from 2 computers and 2 devices 178 days before the end of a 1 year subscription.
Information assurance and security vendors dont get to ‘default enable without prior notification’ new features - not this decade. And a broken interface to disable a browser plugin/extension to give me more ‘shopping info’ does not instill any confidence. More features = more lines of code that can introduce bugs and vulnerabilities. Why cant we just stick to the core mission of preventing exfiltration of my data without my consent? I thought that was a pretty onerous responsibility by itself. I don’t need security software to tell me I can buy underwear cheaper used on ebay while browsing boxers at wal mart. What a distraction for AV and firewall product managers.
Just had this myself with Firefox. After a lot of digging, disabled it by clicking the question mark at the top right (when the bar appears), then on the big screen that comes up, there is a tiny icon in the bottom left saying disable safe price - this is obviously designed to be hard to find.
I find it incredible that a company like Avast can include something like this in their software, being enabled by default, with no obvious way to disable - to me it seems bordering on malware itself.
I have used Avast for many years, both the free and paying versions, and also supply/recommend it to my customers as well - but if this is the way it’s going I will move to something else.
By “bar”, are you referring to the Navigation Toolbar? If so, there is no question mark icon on the top right of my Navigation Toolbar but there is a green circular icon which is left partially open without forming a complete circle. It doesn’t look like a question mark to me. In any case, neither right-clicking, middle-clicking or left-clicking on it causes anything to happen on my system. There is no window, tab, large screen or anything else appearing and pop-ups are not blocked in FF either on my system. It seems to be a completely dead icon with no function whatsoever nor any label to describe what it is for.
Are you using Firefox 27.0.1? I am using FF 27.0.1 and Win 7.
By bar I mean the Safe Price bar that appears at the top of the browser screen, but below the menus etc. I can’t check now, as once disabled there seems no way to enable again!! From what I remember there was a circle icon on the left which did nothing, and two icons on the right - a question mark, and an X. The x only offered to close for a certain time, but the question mark brought up another black screen with some info and a big button asking to continue, but there was a tiny link to disable in the bottom LHS.
This was FF 27 on Windows 7 pro 64.
Just disable the AOS extension.
As was pointed out in post 11 in this thread, Avast has said that because of a bug, the extension cannot be disabled in FF vers 27.
Well, they’re wrong. I have enabled/disabled it a few times this week.
Edit: In fact I have just disabled it again between this original post and the edit.
Post #11 indicates that the AOS cannot be “removed” from Firefox 27. There never was a problem enabling/disabling it.