Unwelcome install

Avast Secure Browser Avast Secure Browser for Windows
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I have just updated my Avast Antivirus and was unpleasantly surprised that the Avast Browser had reappeared some years after I had previously disabled it. The following are faults that I normally associate with malware.

[ol]- I was not asked if I wanted the browser, I thought I was just doing a normal update of the engine

  • It was made my default browser without asking
  • When I rebooted it started without asking, having set itself to auto start
  • Uninstall did not work because Avast forgot to include the uninstalller program[/ol]

Fortunately your website provided a standalone uninstaller which did the trick.

I have used and recommended Avast Antivirus for many years. This was really disappointing.

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Hi Pete, QA is checking it, see: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=258634.msg1599098#msg1599098

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Hello, petef4

Unfortunately what we found so far is that there can be a problem connected to Windows update & AV update at the same time. Most likely it looks that our browser was installed and disabled for some of the users in the past and that it just jumped out in front of them after the updates.

It should be fixed now, and never happen again

Thank you!