Unfortunately, the most free software nowadays that is packed with a wrapper comes with some unwanted add-ons in most cases a browser toolbar or browser modifcation such as a homepage hijacker. This cleanup tool is developed for remocing unwanted toolbars from Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Using avast! Browser Cleanup will allow the user to get rid of these toolbars with a single click.Avast! Browser Cleanup is a new option in de the security products from avast! This utility is also available as a stand alone version. An automatic rating system allows the user to immediately see how other users like an add-on. Some of these toolbars prevent the user from uninstalling them.Īvast! Browser Cleanup lists all these add-ons for the 3 major Internet Browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome) and allows to disable or to remove them.Users mostly don't know how to get rid of the toolbars.Multiple toolbars get 'normal' and require a lot of space inside the browser.Annoying ads are displayed, search results are manipulated.

A lot of these toolbars are annoying for the user: Tracking data is being sent to some backend servers. However, in general they are used to analyze the user preferences and behavior and send this data to other vendors where it's used to present user specific ads. Some of these toolbars claim to be somehow useful. In most cases a Browser add-on (a so called toolbar) is installed. Nowadays almost any free software for Windows comes with some more or less unwanted add-ons which are mostly the cash cow for the product vendor. Probably you need to restart your Internet Browser, however. This will re-enable the add-on and all functionality is back. You can undo this action just by clicking 'Enable'. Disable just switches off the functionality of the add-ons. For this reason avast! Browser Cleanup also offers a button 'Disable'.

However, removing an add-on sometimes might not be desired always as you might not be sure what's really behind this add-on. 'Remove' means here uninstall and remove the toolbar and all its components completely from your computer.

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