How to Fix Firefox New Tab Defaulting to AVG Secure Search

AVG is the most trusted free antivirus and anti-spyware security software for Windows. For home users are free but lately they have been adding add-ons to browsers that was driving me crazy. One of them is making you default search engine or you home page to AVG Secure Search:

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Typically as tech guy I don’t like software changing my preferences so I found how to remove that option from fire fox. It may just work well with other browsers.

Sample:

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If you already have installed all components from AVG 2012 then here is how to remove that annoying feature:

  • In Windows Control Panel find the AVG 2012 and select change:

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  • And then you will get to a window when you can uncheck AVG Add-Ons (uncheck that)

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  • After you are done you will get an message in the browser:

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