@ schmidthouse,

When I open SZ, Chrome comes up and displays the following url: hxxp://program.avast.com/api/?action=2&p_elm=15 (link disabled for safety)

Web page is blue, just as you’ve noted.

Odd.

Also, when ticking the security info box just to the right left of the url, I get “This connection is untrusted” and two other notations as well in the drop-down box. You getting that also?

Got a reply from avast! email support suggesting I remove “an avast add-on” (unspecified) by running a change operation on avast! to remove that add-on so that is where we are now. AOS is not installed, and should not affect proper operation of Chrome in SZ even if it was installed anyway, as no extensions of any kind are run in that environment.