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It may offer or exhibit borderline or questionable behavior. Read the description for more details.
Item Details
| Extension ID: | avg@toolbar |
| Name(s): | AVG Web TuneUp, AVG SafeGuard toolbar, AVG Security Toolbar, AVG Nation toolbar |
| Filename: | avg@toolbar.xpi |
| Location: | %profile%\extensions (contains the XPI file) OR %profile%\extensions\avg@toolbar OR %CommonAppData% / %ProgramData%\[AVG toolbar edition]\FireFoxExt\[x.x.x.x] |
| Creator: | AVG Technologies |
| Description: | AVG Web TuneUp (formerly AVG Secure Search or AVG Nation) provides Site Safety ratings, Do Not Track functionality and Browser Cleaner. Depending on the variant, different branding and search engine provider: mysearch.avg.com (Yahoo), avg.nation.com (Infospace), or isearch.avg.com (Google). Bundled with AVG programs and other third party software or installed on demand from the official websites. Considered as PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) due to unfair distribution methods, browser hijacking and Infospace relationship. See here, here, here. Older versions: [AVG toolbar edition] in the path indicates the same names as display names and [x.x.x.x] indicates versions: 18.0.0.248, 3.1.0.8, etc. Older versions: Windows Registry (machine-level) extension installed outside of the Firefox profile - no Remove button in the Add-ons Manager. Official instructions here and here. |
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