How to uninstall Avast SafeZone Browser
By Martin Brinkmann on March 24, 2016 in Security - Last Update: March 24, 2016 22
Avast SafeZone Browser is one of the components that may gets added to your Windows machine when you install the antivirus solution.
It is selected by default and if you don't select the customize option in the installer to pick the modules that you want installed, will be installed on your system.
Avast users on sites like Reddit reported recently that Avast SafeZone Browser was installed on their system afterwards as well, which they noticed immediately as Avast put a SafeZone Browser icon on the desktop of the system.
Avast SafeZone Browser
According to Avast, SafeZone Browser has been designed with "built-in privacy features" that promises better privacy and safety while on the Internet.
While it includes features such as ad-blocking or filters that block pages with poor reputation, and specialized browsing modes for "safe transactions", it ships with a price comparison component as well.
At its core, Avast SafeZone Browser is a forked version of Chromium.
Google researcher Travis Ormandy revealed in February 2016 that the program put users at risk simply by being installed on the system. While the issue has been resolved in the meantime, serious security issues like the one discovered are not helping Avast make the case that their browser should be used for better security and privacy online.
Block the installation of Avast SafeZone Browser
If you are installing Avast anew, and don't have any need for the web browser to be installed on your system, then you should block its installation outright.
While that won't help you if Avast later on decides to push the browser anyway on your system, you can at least make certain that it is not installed directly by you.
To block the installation of the web browser while you are installing Avast Antivirus on a machine, do the following:
Remove Avast SafeZone Browser
If the web browser is already installed on the system, then you can remove it from the Windows PC in the following way:
Step 1: Hit Windows-Pause to open the Control Panel of the operating system.
Step 2: Select "Control Panel Home", and on the screen that opens "uninstall a program".
Step 3: Right-click on Avast Free Antivirus (your version may have a different name), and select the change option from the context menu. Alternatively, left-click on the Avast entry and pick change from the menu at the top.
Step 4: On the page that opens, select change again. You find it listed next to update and repair.
Step 5: Locate SafeZone Browser and uncheck the box next to it. Do the same for any of the other components that you may not require. All components will be removed from the PC if they are installed. Click on change afterwards to start the removal process. You will receive a "the product was updated successfully" message afterwards.
A restart of the computer may be required to complete the process.
Summary Article Name How to uninstall Avast SafeZone Browser Description Find out how to block or uninstall Avast SafeZone Browser, a web browser component of Avast Free Antivirus, from your Windows computer. Author Martin Brinkmann Publisher Ghacks
Article Name How to uninstall Avast SafeZone Browser Description Find out how to block or uninstall Avast SafeZone Browser, a web browser component of Avast Free Antivirus, from your Windows computer. Author Martin Brinkmann Publisher Ghacks
About Martin Brinkmann Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ View all posts by Martin Brinkmann →
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What’s going on in Virtual Mobile Infrastructure? An update on Hypori, Avast, Nubo, and more
by Jack Madden 
Last year I spoke about virtual mobile infrastructure (VMI) at Citrix Synergy and at BriForum, and we spent a lot of time covering it overall. (If you’re not familiar with VMI, it’s just like VDI except with hosted Android instead of Window, and mobile clients. Learn more of basics here.)
So what’s going on today? A lot. Over the last two months I caught up with Hypori, Remotium (now Avast), and Nubo, and they all had new developments to share.
Hypori
Today Hypori is announcing that it is certified for Common Criteria. Certifications like these will be vital for the regulated and government customers that are the best fit for VMI. Hypori is also listed in the NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified program.
Last December Hypori had a few management changes, with David Hood as the new CEO, a new sales leader (Will King), and more recent a new chief marketing officer (Will Scott). Former CEO Justin Marston is now a strategic consultant.
Beside previous military and government collaborations, Hypori is now working with Visa. You can watch their joint demo from the Finovate finance technology conference last fall; Hypori also exhibited in Visa’s booth at Mobile World Congress.
Hypori’s server platform is now being offered on a ruggedized appliance made by PacStar and aimed towards military, law enforcement, and emergency customers.
On the tech side, Hypori recently announced the launch of a seamless app mode—the idea is that instead of connecting to an entire virtualized Android instance, users connect directly to a single app.
Avast
Remember that last year Remotium was acquired by Avast. Now Remotium has been re-released as Avast Virtual Mobile Platform (VMP), and Avast is continuing to give the former Remotium group resources to grow. Besides funding, they’re getting access to Avast’s anti-malware, app reputation, and website reputation IP. Stephanie Fohn, who was CEO during the acquisition, has moved on, but all the founders and the rest of the original team are continuing on with Avast.
Some of their recent technology updates include building a VoIP and instant messaging system into the VMP server and client.
Nubo
Nubo Software raised a $7 million Round A in January, and plans to expand in the US and into more industries. Nubo is now working with Motorola Solutions, with Motorola acting as an integrator.
Some of Nubo’s recent technology updates also include an instant messaging system contained entirely within the VMI platform.
Other news
The interest in VMI isn’t contained to VMI providers. The National Institute of Standards and Technology mentions it in the latest draft revision of their teleworking guidelines, which are currently open for public comment.
Google is also trying a few things with VMI. Last year they started using it as a way to extend search to content in apps that people don’t have installed on their phone—in other words, if there’s an app that has good content related to your search, it will just stream the app to your phone. More recently they’ve extended this concept to app and game previews.
Besides the vendors I wrote about here, Raytheon, Sierraware, and Trend Micro are all working on VMI, too.
Thoughts
One technical challenge that VMI providers are all still facing is that none of them have been licensed to use Google Mobile Services in their environment. So that means no Google Play, no Google Maps, or no other Google apps that most people associate with the typical Android experience in much of the world.
There are various workarounds, such as Avast / Remotium’s µg, an open-source alternative, but given the targeted use cases for most VMI providers, this actually isn’t a big deal: If you’re concerned about security enough to need VMI, you probably don’t want the data in your VMI environment to be flowing through Google.
So what are the prospects for VMI?
Most of these VMI vendors have initial customers, and the fact that there are so many working on it is also a good sign. (So far there aren’t any big public references in the industry, but I have standing requests with all my contacts to interview customers as soon as they’re ready to share more.)
There’s certainly a lot of skepticism, and rightfully so. Remember how much VDI was hyped when it first came out?
As we watch the spread of VMI, we can look to VDI for many lessons. Thinking of VMI as a one-size-fits-all solution for every single mobile problem will lead to disappointment, even if it technically can solve many different problems (BYOD, security, developing for multiple platforms, mobile app management, more control over the OS, app updates, etc.).
Instead, for now the key to VMI is to focus on specific apps in specific verticals. Think of use cases that require a thin-client architecture with no data on the endpoint and mobile devices as clients and mobile apps—these are the best starting points.
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