removing avg search bar from browser

I can't do it either - a huge pain. Windows 7 Mozilla. Tried each of these several times, reboot etc. AVG T not listed at control panel uninstall, or at CCleaner (YAY CCleaner my favorite clean it up program free but I paid love it!!) uninstall, or at Revo uninstall. Toolbar Cleaner (free) thought it got rid of it, but its still there on Mozilla though not shown on TBC. AVG has download removal tools - they do not work. Their chat line took me 45 min to get to a person (I'm very persistent when po'd) Person said to call,as it was too complicated to explain on chat. Did not call not THAT into self-harm. Several 3d party removers did not work (why do they have the same free software with x+ different names?) Any way, my sympathies and will someone please make us malware that will destroy all avg programs on all computers in world - good job for Chinese govt if they bored with info theft and checking whether their citizen's sox want freedom - never forget Tiananmen Square. Best of luck & I hope someone help us fix this.

Worked perfectly - thank you very much

Your welcome!

It's baaaack! Opened mozilla and there it was. Ran toolbar cleaner again, ran the avg toolbar remover, checked plugins in mozilla and now it seems to be gone. ran ccleaner and ccleaner reg check - suspicious as saw no registry changes, I'll wait till it pops again and will again try to use its own uninstall - search for avg still find lots of stuff, including DSPDlg_IE "a feature of avg security toolbar that detedts attempt to change default search settings" - also found AVG tollbar in IE add-ins - disabled and then appeared to be gone. Zombie program - I count anything you can't get rid of as malware.

AVG Toolbar happily ensconced in Mozilla whenbooted and logged on to Mozilla. AVG toolbar doesn't show in programs and features, CCleaner uninstall, or Revo uninstaller. Ran Toolbar cleaner,AVG Toolbar uninstaller, CCleaner for registry, rebooted, searched, and for a change found no trace of AVG. Won't know for a while if its really gone

there is nothing left of it now. When you delete, use Revo to clean it includes the registry files and folders. just uninstall it with revo and revo do the rest. you just click select all registry and the folders mark them all then delete and done. and re enter your home page in Firefox settings.

Revo didn't and doesn't see it.

what i meant was that if you have any toolbars you need to remove, use Revo for it next time. this time the AVG toolbar is completely gone. you can close this case now.

It's back.

Neither revo nor the windows uninstall nor ccleaner can see it

more news to follow

I continue to follow all the protocols above - got it clean again, booted, then did search for avg - 340 items - screenshots to word doc. is there a way I can email screenshots, as I can't copy and past the word doc or pdf with the screenshots here. Here is belarc of my cmptr- note AVG Secure Search - ToolbarU Application Version 15, 2, 0, 5

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I did - Open Firefox and type about:config into the address bar and hit Enter. Accept the "Here be dragons" warning and type AVG into the search bar. no results. Then - ress the Windows key and R together and into the Open box, type msconfig and press Enter. Under the StartUp tab, unticked AVG. VProt not there. Clicked Apply. AVG not in running services - also not in services in task manager. restarted. Reboot ed - search AVG - still a lot of avg folders, including search.

Hate to have taken over
sskeleton10's question

I'm too insecure to deal with the registry. Tho whether it's active or not, i really want it off my system. Doesn't avg care about this?

ok this seems to have worked - search programs and files for avg. for each item opened properties and copied filepath - used revo forced uninstall with each specific path. Seems clean through several boots. anyone know how i could have gotten it in the first place??

Thank you all very much for your help. How do I do I mark best answer? I didn't start the thread.