I moved from Avira because it pushed some unwanted options on me. I like Avast very much, so far, but I do have a nagging problem with the Site rating icon at the top right of my Firefox browser. I uninstalled the web component and rebooted but it is still there. I don’t want it. How can I remove this nuisance?
I guess you’re talking about WebRep.
You can uninstall it from the avast! GUI.
Asyn is right.
Remove it from avast GUI (see pic)
Additional Protection > webrep > click uninstall > click ok
I uninstalled the web component and rebooted
Did you remove the webshield? if so, please install it again. It is one of the strongest and best components of avast. webshield is different and webrep (the site rating one) is different.
Thanks for the instructions. Okay, so I went there and uninstalled it. Now, when I go back in under Firefox, it does say, “Plugin not installed” and displays a link to “install” it off to the right, but the icon remains at the top right. I shut down Firefox, even verifying there are not processes running, and relaunched it, to no avail. The icon doesn’t go away. (
Reboot.
Done. Shut the machine off for 30 seconds, in fact. Came back up, and the icon remains. It’s haunted!
And, NMB, I re-installed webshield. 
Thanks.
Interesting…
Is it still shown as “Installed” in the avast! GUI…??
Untick: Automatically detect new browser installations
Adding further, with due respect to Asyn’s comment,
If you goto the addons window of firefox is it listed there? can you disable from there and try?
It would be nice to have some feedback about whether the problem was finally solved and how.
In addition, I would like to recommend reinstalling / re-enabling the Web Shield (which is the first thing you tried, and it is different from WebRep, which is the feature you are really trying to disable here). Web Shield is very important, while WebRep is not essential.
He already did, see Reply #5… 
Asyn,
You said: “Is it still shown as Installed in the avast! GUI…??”
If you mean under Additional Protection | Web Rep. I see “Mozilla Firefox, Plugin not installed”. I can’t think of any other place.
You said: “Untick: Automatically detect new browser installations”
Where do I see this?
nmb,
You said: “If you goto the addons window of firefox is it listed there? can you disable from there and try?”
If you mean under Tools | Addons | Extensions, I don’t even see it in the list.
ady4um, as per nmb’s initial post, I went back in rightaway and turned on Webshield. It is currently running.
Okay, I have Avast installed from the same latest installer on my PC and laptop. On the PC, the Webrep icon is missong and is supported by the fact that within Avast, under Additional Protection, I do not see the Webrep option at all. Not so on the laptop. There I see Webrep in addition to AutoSandbox and Site Blocking.
So, I uninstalled and re-installed the entire application, unchecked ‘Automatically detect new browser installations’, as Asyn mentioned, uninstalled Webrep, and voila! it’s gone. Thanks to all for a job well-done!
You’re welcome.
Begs the question:
Why do you not like WebRep Site rating ???
I find it very handy when doing a Google or Bing search.
Please see:
avast! 6.x: Installing and using the WebRep
https://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=740
I spoke too soon! It’s back like a dirty shirt. I guess until someone suggests a real solution to it, I will endure it. At least it is not nagging me like Avira. Moreover, it sits unobtrusively off to the top right.
Why don’t I like it? Hmmm…you got me thinking. I can’t find within me any compelling reason except that I do not really use it because i don’t go to questionable sites, anyway.
Dredging up an old thread, but I don’t want to reiterate everything anyone else posted. Did anybody ever figure out how to get rid of this thing? I’m about to delete the whole mess and go back to AVG, much as I prefer Avast!
Just uninstall WebRep… Or change your existing installation through Control Panel.
ditto on the apologies for dragging this up again but now ive got the silly web rating thing aswell and want rid of it.
My days of raving and wanting neon accessories are way behind me and i only visit main stream sites so have no need of it (plus i run addblock+no script which hides the worst).
Ive tried - ‘Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove programs’ but there is no ‘WebRep’ listed there to remove/delete (i rechecked 3 times without seeing it - is that the right place to look?)
*ive even tried looking on the avast user panel incase there was a ‘control panel’ button there that people meant but cant see one there either so im stumped.
I did a search on my computer and found
-aswWerRepIE.dll - C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast5
-WebRep (folder) - C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast5
-AswWebRepChrome.crx - C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast5\WebRep\Chrome
-AswWebRepChrome.ver - C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast5\WebRep\Chrome
Can i just find those and delete them indivually?? Will that work?
This is the first thing that ive even come close to complaining about, the rest of the time its been nothing but compliments and recommendations about avast.
Cheers all!
See: Reply #2 in this thread.
cheers … im taking a guess that its GUI is the Avast user interface?
Settings, Community and unticking the bottom two ‘community features’ things?
1 show avast! recommendation features
2 show social networking features
I will try a reboot now and see if that fgets rid of it - if it doesnt then i dont understand what or where you mean but thanks for the quick reply and trying to help
No.