If your preferred search provider or homepage is not on that offer list, you can easily change the browser settings once the browser is clean. The current list of offered search providers is limited and depends on the customers location and country. After the selection is made, the new search provider and homepage will be set. Therefore Avast Browser Cleanup offers a list of approved and Avast-tested new search providers combined with homepages to choose from during the removal process. Avast Browser Cleanup is unable to decide if a homepage is an intended one or if it is hijacked by the poorly rated toolbar. This means Avast Browser Cleanup needs to reset these pages unless the search provider or homepage are on a whitelist. If a browser is threatened by a poorly rated add-on, its search and homepage are most likely hijacked as well in one form or another. Why is my search and homepage reset when poorly rated add-ons are removed?
This might lead to the strange situation that Avast Browser Cleanup rejects a seemingly safe add-on, because it is actually just a fake add-on posing as a legitimate one. Unfortunately malware creators sometimes try to get access to your information by taking on a legitimate company or product name.
Why do seemingly safe add-ons like Angry Birds and eBay have a bad reputation? Please report such cases through our support channels and provide the Avast Browser Cleanup log file. However, some of these protectors are hard to identify and remove. Avast Browser Cleanup tries to detect and remove toolbar protectors at start up. In some cases the add-on can be removed but will be automatically restored later (e.g. A toolbar protector typically prevents Avast Browser Cleanup from reliably detecting and removing add-ons, resetting a search provider, or setting a homepage. The reason for this might be that the add-on is protected by a so-called toolbar protector. In some cases, an add-on can be restored even after you have removed it. About Add-ons What can I do if an add-on gets automatically restored after removing it? If you want to stop ignoring the add-on, just click Stop Ignoring and the Remove option will appear again. Ignore means that the add-on will be disregarded and kept in the browser, no matter what its rating is. If you want to keep the add-on and you want Avast Browser Cleanup to stop offering to remove it, you can select Ignore in the standalone version. Remove means here to uninstall and completely remove the toolbar and all its components from your computer. What happens when you 'Remove' or 'Ignore' an add-on?Īvast Browser Cleanup allows you to remove known toolbars.
Microsoft Windows 8 / 8.1 (any Edition except RT or Starter, 32-bit or 64-bit).
Microsoft Windows 10 (any Edition except RT or Starter, 32-bit or 64-bit).What are the system requirements for Avast Browser Cleanup? An automatic rating system also shows you how other users like an add-on.
When you download free software from the Internet, it often comes with hidden add-ons which extract user data for the product vendor, usually in the form of a so-called toolbar. General Why should I use Avast Browser Cleanup? Is it Useless? Avast Cleanup makes it possible to get rid of all the junk and residual files that eat up space on hard drives while also emptying. Although, due to its outstanding features, it doesn’t mean it’s the best cleanup tool for all users. It is far more efficient as compared to various cleanup tools which can be found easily on different websites. To answer the question is Avast Cleanup Premium worth it? We think that Avast Cleanup is an effective tool to use.