To select another search engine provider as your default search engine, hover over the search engine until you see “ Make Default” appear on the right side. If AVG search is currently selected as the default search engine, you will have to choose another search engine provider as your default first, and then remove the AVG entry.Depending on your extensions, you may not see the last section for Search engines added by extensions. If all searches that you perform in the omnibox is returning with results from AVG search instead of your preferred search engine, check in Wrench > Settings > Search > Manage search engines > check the list of Default search engines, Other search engines, and Search engines added by extensions, and remove suspicious entries that you are not familiar with.If AVG search pages are opening up each time you start up Chrome, check in Wrench > Settings > On Startup > next to the radio button for Open a specific page or set of pages, click on Set pages > remove any unwanted URLs by hovering over the URL until you see an “ X” appear to the right side of the URL.After the restart, AVG Remover will finish the uninstallation.įor Google Chrome I found used these instructions from the Google forum helpful: Your computer will be restarted automatically.

Run the downloaded tool and follow the instructions displayed on your screen.Download the AVG Remover tool from our website.Save all your work and close all documents! Your computer will be restarted during the procedure.In case the uninstallation was not successful, use the AVG Remover tool: Right-click AVG 2013 on the Start screen.Follow the instructions on your screen to complete the uninstallation.Click the Uninstall or Change/Remove button.

Select AVG 2013 in the list of programs.

Open ( Programs) -> Programs and Features, or Add or Remove Programs.

Go to Start -> ( Settings) -> Control Panel.

Here are AVGs instructions for removal of AVG 2013: WINDOWS XP AND 7 Please post comments if you find these instructions don’t work for you. I just spent about an hour figuring out how to remove it so hopefully this will help YOU escape from the AVG secure search nightmare. It’s nice that AVG provides a high quality free product for computer security, but in what appears to be a scramble to monetize their big and recent venture capital investment it *appears* that AVG has jumped the shark with their “secure search” feature.

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