

If you type Internet Explorer in your search bar you'll see its executable appear in the search list. So far as I can see this application adjusts settings to popular browsers such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome. Personally, I feel the information there is a little disorganized, and getting you to carry out instructions in a way that could potentially leave traces of the AVG Web TuneUp application.įrom what I can tell this particular application has been removed from AVG's site - probably owing to the 2015 flaw discovered that placed millions of Google Chrome users at risk of having personal data mined. I've read through the article you provided a URL to. I do believe the culprit is most likely the program that I cannot remove. Whenever I try to do that, the pop-up appears, I confirm the removal, the progress bar is shown for about 3 seconds, then the pop-up disappears and the package stays there on the list of installed programs.īitDefender says it cannot complete the installation due to the presence of another antivirus. Then I attempted to remove AVG Secure Search (the standard way - control panel, add-remove programs). (The latter is the software package, not the toolbar with the same name.)įirst, I removed the AVG Antivirus package.

There were two AVG packages installed: AVG Antivirus Free and AVG Secure Search. Perusing the AVG support forum, I can see AVG tech support never solves these issues when posted by other users.ĭecided to uninstall AVG and to install BitDefender instead. AVG has rendered the computer unusable (95% CPU usage by AVG processes when idle, taking 3 minutes to open a document, most web sites timing out while opening, zillions of junk AVG sales pop-ups disguised as system notifications). First time poster, please let me know if this is not the right subforum for my problem.
