Chrome-Stats extension
AVG Online Security
AVG Browser Security and Web Reputation Plugin. Offering protection against known phishing and malware sites, improving your browsing overall browsing experience with crowd sourced web reputation rating.
What is AVG Online Security?
"AVG Online Security" is a powerful Firefox extension designed to protect your online activities. It blocks phishing sites, rates websites based on security assessments from a 400 million strong community of users, warns against sites with bad reputations, and blocks intrusive tracking cookies. It ensures a secure browsing experience by integrating seamlessly with AVG's security framework.
Stats
By:
AVG Technologies
Rating:
4.52
(686)
Creation date:
2019-06-27
Weekly download count:
1,690
Firefox on Android:
No
Risk impact:
Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
- https://*/*
- http://*/*
- storage
- tabs
- webNavigation
- webRequest
- webRequestBlocking
Size:
508.58K
URLs:
Website
,Privacy policy
Stats date:
Chrome-Stats Rank
#
297
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Summary
AVG Browser Security - web reputation plugin AVG-powered security for your Firefox browser
Browse without worry or fear with AVG in your corner: we’ll check every site you visit, from Facebook to your bank, to ensure nothing puts you or your data at risk. We stop phishing attacks, show user reviews, and warn you if a site is deemed untrustworthy by our community of 400 million.
Main features:
- Identifies and blocks phishing sites trying to steal your data
- See how website has been rated by a growing community of 400 million Avast users
- Easily check the rating of any website just by hovering over the link
- Warns you when you’re visiting websites with bad reputations
- Rate a website effortlessly, marking them with a thumbs up or a thumbs down, to help other users know where to avoid
- If you have Avast Secure Browser installed, we’ll open it automatically when you shop or bank online to help protect your data
- Blocks annoying tracking cookies that collect data on your browsing activities
- URL - to check if the website is safe or not
- user's feedback - to tell whether the site rating and classification you received are relevant
- Usage data - To measure user’s behavior in UI and how user interacts with the extension
- Internal extension identifier(GUID) - to distinguish unique malware hits, to measure product telemetry and calculate aggregated statistics
- Information about device (Browser type, Operating System Version) - To obtain usage aggregated statistics
- Country - to detect country specific malware campaigns, to measure product telemetry and calculate aggregated statistics
- Status of AVG Antivirus - To be able to turn on Bank Mode on specific sites
User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate,
spammy, or outdated.
Pros
- Easy to use
- Trustworthy protection
- No interference with browsing
Cons
- Too many add-ons
- Unwanted advertising
- Slows down computer
Most mentioned
- Trustworthy protection
- Too many add-ons
- Easy to use
Recent reviews
by
Sanguanphong.s, 2024-04-18
by
Sanguanphong.s, 2024-04-18
by
Sanguanphong.s, 2024-04-18
Safety
Risk impact
AVG Online Security is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this add-on unless you absolutely trust this publisher.
Risk likelihood
AVG Online Security has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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