It's easy enough to get rid of but what I've read

by Steven Haninger - 4/17/12 3:34 PM

In Reply to: Not sure what to make of that by MarkFlax Moderator

is that Google pays Avast to sneak in the Chrome installation. It's alluded to here. Somewhere I read it was one US buck per successful install but I cannot confirm that.

http://securitygarden.blogspot.com/2012/02/avast-users-frustrated-with-unwanted.html

In any event, it's only happened to me when using the maintenance feature within Avast and not running from the downloaded file no matter where it comes from. What happens is that Avast pops up a screen at the end of the installation that it needs to reboot. Upon rebooting, the Chrome icon is on the desktop. One just goes to Add/Remove and can get rid of it. If you like Chrome, no big deal.