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.
Add-on stats
By: AVG Technologies
Rating: 4.50
(705)
Creation date: 2019-06-27
Weekly download count: 349
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
Size: 204.24K
URLs: Website ,Privacy policy
Ranking
# 1786
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Add-on 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
Pros
- Quick and easy to use
- Effective protection
- Good customer service
Cons
- Invasive
- Discontinued support
- Tries to upsell additional add-ons
Most mentioned
- Dropping support for the extension
- Invasive
- Effective protection
Recent reviews
Add-on safety
Risk impact
AVG Online Security requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
AVG Online Security has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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