How-To Geek

Welcome to the forum hek. AVG toolbar? I have never seen one of these. Can you describe a bit more please.

Lighthouse, the AVG toolbar is actually entitled (by AVG) the AVG Security Toolbar, but in my mind the word Security does not really apply. It is a horizontal bar stretching the width of the screen, and is broken into sections, some of which are drop menus and some of which are shortcuts and one of which is a search box.

whs, I finally found Firefox's Toolbars setting, but it is under View rather than Tools.

Thank you, both of you, for your time. I now have the solution for my problem, and I appreciate your assistance.

hek

Lighthouse, of course I will. I assumed whs would understand, but I should have been more specific. In Firefox's View menu, there is a Toolbars sub-menu apparently listing all of the active or installed toolbars. One of the listed toolbars is the AVG Security Toolbar; I simply unchecked it and it disappeared, which is what I wanted. It can be brought back by re-checking it.

Upon re-reading your original response, it occurs to me that maybe you were asking what AVG is. AVG (originally from a company called Grisoft or some similar name) is virus protection software in several versions, one of which is free.

Again, thank you.

hek

AVG 8 now adds a toolbar that is installed when you install the Anti-virus software. I use AVG 8 Free and noticed that they slipped it into the install. If you pay close attention during the install, you will be able to uncheck the "Install AVG Toolbar". It is a little more subtle than the way Adobe Reader tries to push the Yahoo! toolbar. I never installed it but figured it would have had an entry in the "Add/Remove Software" applet. Guess not.

hek, I did understand. Just did not know it was under "View" - as I said, I am no Firefox user.

Has anyone been able to uninstall the avg toolbar? I have looked in the add/remove programs and not found it there - any help would be nice.

I too am having trouble removing the AVG toolbar. I kind of resent the underhanded installation. It installed on it's own during a shut-down update. They want me to pay for information on how to uninstall something that they loaded without consent or permission.

So...by simply un-checking the toolbar, am I only making it 'not visible', or am I actually removing it ?

Thanks in advance. =)

I need more software to uninstall this ?

As you can probably tell, I'm not extremely knowledgable in this area. =) But shouldn't AVG have a way to uninstall something they installed ?

If you give me a few days, I will put together another computer, install AVG on a clean system, and check it all out. I am not putting AVG on my working machine.