AVG 8.0 to Bundle the Yahoo Toolbar

Posted by malwarekilla
March 8, 2008

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Grisoft ( makers of AVG Antivirus and Antispyware ) have announced that they will be bundling the yahoo search toolbar with the new AVG Free version 8.0. This seems to be pretty common these days. Anyway to make a buck I suppose.

What the problem with this practice?

  1. Toolbars in IE or Firefox will make the browser run slower, it's just another item that parses and processes every page load.
  2. The checkbox to install the toolbar is automatically checked. Less savvy users will think this yahoo toolbar is necessary when it is actually not.

Our advice is to never load any toolbars in IE or Firefox unless you absolutely must. Remember, toolbars will slow your browsing down, and 60% of them are malicious in nature.

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Comments

okay, so how do I remove the avg security-yahoo search engine toolbar?

Comment by Sandi on May 8, 2008 @ 1:16 pm

You can re-run the setup and choose to not install the avg toolbar or uninstall and reinstall, only this time do not choose the avg toolbar.

Comment by malwarekilla on May 9, 2008 @ 6:12 pm

I’ve downloaded the latest AVG Free installer (avg_free_stf_all_8_100a1295.exe), installed it, and had to spend 15 minutes researching how to remove the toolbar when it slowed down my browsing speed. I would not agree if someone call me not computer savvy, but I missed the significance of that check mark during the installation. :(

Comment by Isles Tech on May 10, 2008 @ 4:06 pm

Need to homework ahead, saves a pain in the neck later.
:-)

Comment by KimberTech on May 12, 2008 @ 12:23 pm

yes it does. :P

Comment by malwarekilla on May 12, 2008 @ 8:11 pm

I did not tick the yahoo toolbar add option but I have a whole lot of AVG protection on my toolbar now and man is it slowing things down- any painless way to get rid of it?

I mean besides uninstall, etc…

Comment by Gita on May 13, 2008 @ 6:24 am

You can use toolbar cop to get rid of it (do a search for toolbar cop). Also, if you’re using IE you can reset IE and it will remove the toolbar for ya.

1. Open IE
2. Click tools
3. Click Internet Options
4. Click Advanced
5. Click Reset
6. Follow the prompts

Comment by malwarekilla on May 13, 2008 @ 3:31 pm

For Mozilla Firefox 3.0 try…

1. Tools
2. Options
3. Main
5. Manage Add-ons (button at the bottom)

…and there should be an entry for “AVG Security Toolbar” with an option to disable.

Not sure I’ve noticed any performance gain but it gives me back a bit of screen.

Comment by Dave on July 14, 2008 @ 7:41 pm
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