Sorry Avast, you have lost me with this one. I have not been too happy with the latest changes/additions (UI changes where the program claims its status is OK even when it is out of date on its program version, Software Updater, Browser Cleanup, GrimeFighter - does jack of all trades/master of none ring a bell?). I've used Avast for years and put it on friends' and relatives' machines. He was waiting for me to update my system to confirm it was safe for him to proceed with this update. The kicker? I had put Avast on my brother-in-law's system and he had been caught two updates back by the Avast-update-kills-IE bug. For a (so-called) security company to program option control using cookies is (to my mind) totally brain-dead (not to put to fine a point on it!). Many of us have been concerned about site/advertisers' tracking even before the Snowden revelations. Frankly, I find this to be an inexplicable design/security choice and an unacceptable attitude. I've also noted that the attitude in the forum seems to be users shouldn't be using only session cookies or in-private browsing and we should just 'suck it up' and stop complaining. I understand from others' tickets citing this problem that Avast has decided to put user options in cookies rather than following Mozilla practice of placing access to options either in the extension listing under Add-ons or in the Toolbar Add-on icon.
For IE, I just have the security settings on high as I almost never use it. My security add-ons for FF/PM: Adblock Plus, Ghostery, NoScript, Self-Destructing Cookies for Opera: Adblock Plus, Ghostery. Strangely, none of my other browsers suffer from this problem (IE 11, PaleMoon (24.4.1), or Opera 12.16). The webpage from hell refuses to abide by Firefox preferences (you do realize, that is a definition of malware?). I flushed my browser cache I tried changing settings on the page and saving (which spawns *17*, count 'em, 17 additional tabs). I already had my system set to allow cookies I added as allowed cookies I've deleted all avast cookies. I've changed open with last session, open only with homepage, open with blank page. yesterday I find that Firefox (v.28) now *always* opens with the Avast! Online Security page ( ). My system, Win 7 SP1, 圆4, current on MS patches.
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