During your installation of AVG Free 8 you will get the option to install the AVG Toolbar and by default it’s checked for installation. If you’re not careful and happened to miss that screen than you’ve probably installed the AVG Toolbar. You need to click the “Next” button so many times during the installation by the time you’ve reached the AVG Toolbar dialog box you just click “Next” without even reading what its doing, pretty clever indeed.
How to remove AVG Toolbar for Internet Explorer:
Right click anywhere on the Toolbar and uncheck “AVG Security Toolbar”.
Remove AVG Toobar for Firefox Users:
Go up to the Menu bar and click on “Tools -> Add-ons. Look for “AVG Security Toolbar” and click on the “Disable” button. Close the window and restart Firefox.
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u have to remove in C:\Program Files\Common Files it’s directory (all explorer programs have to be closed), maybe with Unlocker.
Just to point out that I installed AVG on multiple systems. I *always* untick the box when it pushes AVG “security” toolbar and AVG *always* installs it regardless.
I’d very much appreciate if we stopped telling users that they are careless when in truth all this “me, me, me” software forces unwanted registrations and advertising on users. Users are victims of bad practice, not responsible for it.
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