# 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.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/avg-online-security](https://chrome-stats.com/d/avg-online-security)

## Overview

- **ID:** `avg-online-security`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** AVG Technologies
- **Category:** privacy-security,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 848
- **Weekly downloads:** 88
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (705 ratings)
- **Version:** 20.5.12
- **Last updated:** 2024-05-14
- **First published:** 2019-06-27
- **Size:** 199 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/avg-online-security/)
- **Website:** [https://www.avg.com](https://www.avg.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/avg-online-security/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/avg-online-security/privacy/)

## Description

AVG Online Security is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your browsing safety by protecting you against phishing and malware sites. Leveraging a vast community of over 400 million users, it provides real-time web reputation ratings, warns you of untrustworthy sites, and blocks tracking cookies to guard your privacy.

Key features include phishing site identification and blocking, easy visibility of website ratings by hovering over links, community-driven site reviews, automatic switching to Avast Secure Browser for sensitive activities like banking, and comprehensive user data protection governed by AVG's privacy policies. This extension ensures a safer, more informed browsing experience by combining advanced security technology with a user-powered rating system.

## Rankings

- #3,612 — Overall
- #9 — online
- #9 — security
- #20 — antivirus
- #25 — secure
- #26 — malware

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `https://*/*`
- `http://*/*`
- `tabs`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

AVG Online Security was praised for its ease of use and effective protection. However, several users expressed dissatisfaction with AVG discontinuing support for the extension without clear or satisfactory reasons, which led to its automatic uninstallation. Users also noted that its protection is less comprehensive compared to alternatives like NoScript, and some found the extension invasive.

### Pros

- Easy to use with quick and efficient features
- Provides satisfactory protection for users

### Cons

- AVG has discontinued support for this extension causing automatic uninstallation
- Reasons for discontinuation are seen as poor and unjustified by users
- Does not protect as effectively as other extensions like NoScript
- Considered invasive by some users

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/avg-online-security)