avast! Browser Cleanup allows you to remove well-known toolbars or to disable them in the Browser specific tabs on the list. The supported Internet browsers for avast! Browser Cleanup are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Nowadays almost any free software for Windows comes with some more or less unwanted add-ons which are mostly the cash cow for the product vendor. In most cases a Browser add-on (a so called toolbar) is installed. Some of these toolbars claim to be somehow useful. However, in general they are used to analyze the user preferences and behavior and send this data to other vendors where it's used to present user specific ads.

A lot of these toolbars are annoying for the user:
- Tracking data is being sent to some backend servers.
- Annoying ads are displayed, search results are manipulated.
- The Browsers homepage is changed.
- Multiple toolbars get СnormalТ and require a lot of space inside the browser.
- Users mostly donТt know how to get rid of the toolbars.
- Some of these toolbars prevent the user from uninstalling them.

avast! Browser Cleanup lists all these add-ons for the 3 major Internet Browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome) and allows to disable or to remove them. An automatic rating system allows the user to immediately see how other users like an add-on. Using avast! Browser Cleanup will allow the user to get rid of these toolbars with a single click.

avast! Browser Cleanup allows removing of well-known annoying toolbars. УRemoveФ means here uninstall and remove the toolbar and all its components completely from your computer. This action cannot be undone. However, removing an add-on sometimes might not be desired always as you might not be sure whatТs really behind this add-on. For this reason avast! Browser Cleanup also offers a button УDisableФ. Disable just switches off the functionality of the add-ons. The add-on itself persists on disk. You can undo this action just by clicking УEnableФ. This will re-enable the add-on and all functionality is back. Probably you need to restart your Internet Browser, however.

What is the difference between the buttons “Remove” and “Disable”?
avast! Browser Cleanup allows removing of well-known annoying toolbars. “Remove” means here uninstall and remove the toolbar and all its components completely from your computer. This action cannot be undone. However, removing an add-on sometimes might not be desired always as you might not be sure what’s really behind this add-on. For this reason avast! Browser Cleanup also offers a button “Disable”. Disable just switches off the functionality of the add-ons. The add-on itself persists on disk. You can undo this action just by clicking “Enable”. This will re-enable the add-on and all functionality is back. Probably you need to restart your Internet Browser, however.

The supported operating systems for avast! Browser Cleanup
* Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or higher (any Edition, 32-bit),
* Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or higher (any Edition excl. Starter Edition, 32-bit or 64-bit),
* Microsoft Windows 7 (any Edition, 32-bit or 64-bit),
* Microsoft Windows 8 (any Edition, 32-bit or 64-bit).