How do I remove Avast website ratings from being all over the webpages and in firefox?
5 Answers
Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove applications.
Select Avast and Change components. De-select the web reputation part.
Open Avast → Additional Protection → Browser-protection → Expert Settings
Uncheck "Activate WepRep"
Click OK
It changed again. Now you need to:
- Right click the avast! icon in the task bar and select
Open avast! user interface
- Click The
Settings
link (to the right of theAccount
link at the top right) - Click on the
WebRep & Antiphising
tab in the left sidebar - Uncheck
Enable WebRep
- Click OK and restart your browser.
You can also go to the Browser Integration
tab in the left sidebar and uninstall the Security plugin
for each browser, which includes WebRep and sandboxing functionality.
This is current as of version 8.0.1497
Removing Avast Site Rating Icon (WebRep) from Safari toolbar on MAC. Simply choose Safari>Preferences>Extensions,tap on Avast icon and hit uninstall. That's all.
Solution for Firefox (25.0.1).
Disable or uninstall "Firefox" browser plugin: Avast online Security(some versionnumber).
Step by Step Guide:
- Upper left corner check Orange button "Firefox" at Browser window.
- Click "Add-ons".
- Find "avast! Online Security (some versionnumber)".
- Disable / Remowe.
I suggest "Disable" for saving option to use it sometimes and perhaps It gets User-Friendly update one day.