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Avast asks users who disable protections to stop using their extension
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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 89360" data-source="post: 933317"><p>Avast does not install extensions automatically and doesn't need them to provide web-filtering functionality. The first time you launch your browser after instalation it opens 2 tabs, advertising the 2 extensions, namely Online Security and Safe Price. Users can safely close the 2 tabs and no additional references will then be made to the extension. This is a lot better than Norton, which wants to install 4 extensions (again and again till you actually do it) or Bitdefender with 3.</p><p></p><p>The Chris Hoffman article linked above includes ancient information which is not relevant to this day.</p><p>McAfee and Norton which he has also commented on are unable to provide any sort of malicious website filtering on an unsupported browser, so it's normal that they will alert users not to browse via such.</p><p>Chris Hoffman is obviously incompetent and such people should not be allowed to publish articles. The add ons he is suggesting to be "uninstalled ASAP" may turn out to be lifesavers for some users, who are prone to be scammed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 89360, post: 933317"] Avast does not install extensions automatically and doesn't need them to provide web-filtering functionality. The first time you launch your browser after instalation it opens 2 tabs, advertising the 2 extensions, namely Online Security and Safe Price. Users can safely close the 2 tabs and no additional references will then be made to the extension. This is a lot better than Norton, which wants to install 4 extensions (again and again till you actually do it) or Bitdefender with 3. The Chris Hoffman article linked above includes ancient information which is not relevant to this day. McAfee and Norton which he has also commented on are unable to provide any sort of malicious website filtering on an unsupported browser, so it's normal that they will alert users not to browse via such. Chris Hoffman is obviously incompetent and such people should not be allowed to publish articles. The add ons he is suggesting to be "uninstalled ASAP" may turn out to be lifesavers for some users, who are prone to be scammed. [/QUOTE]
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