My thanks to everybody that took the time to look into this. I
submitted the question to the Firefox forum, and there was no
resolution. Of course this was not ever a Firefox problem, but always
a Grisoft problem.
Grisoft, and AVG, has plenty of problems. Their AVG Free forum has 361
pages of posts dealing just with update problems. The most common one
seems to be the one where you have to restart your computer for an
update to "take". (There is no easy resolution to that, by the way --
hence the large number of threads on that topic.)
I downloaded my copies of AVG Free directly from Grisoft on separate
days over an interval of several months, one download for each
installation. Each installation has been updated many times since
then, not just the data base, but the program itself.
Now, Grisoft was the only "beneficiary" of the adware I saw, which
leaves no doubt that it was an intentional ad campaign. But I'm sure
it was never meant to re-install Firefox nor trash my bookmarks. That
was just a slight technical error on their part, which they've
probably already fixed.
It's a little disconcerting to be getting adware from the company
that's writing your virus protection. Buggy adware, no less.
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:04:00 -0700, dogbreath <mr.mxyzptlk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>I run AVG Free on several home computers. Lately when AVG does an
>update, when it finishes the update it goes on to re-install Firefox
>in its latest version (already installed), and leaves me with a "new"
>Firefox installed, and two tabs up: one is the "Welcome to Firefox"
>page and the other is a marketing page from AVG to buy into their
>pay-for version. That's a minor nuisance, but the problem is it
>trashes all my bookmarks.
>
>Fortunately, Firefox has bookmarks backed up every which way but
>Sunday, so restoring bookmarks is just another damned inconvenience.
>
>The strangest thing about this is apparently I'm the only person in
>the world seeing this kind of behavior. I check into alt.computer and
>alt.fan.mozilla regularly, and I've seen no mention of such a problem.
>
>AVG Free has a forum that I check into sometimes, but they're very
>unfriendly. Most of the people who go there just get scolded for
>posting to the wrong subject, or for not including some item of info
>about their OS, or some stupid thing.
>
>My question isn't why does AVG do this. (I know why they do it --
>because they're marketing geeks, s*** of the earth.) My question is --
>Why am I apparently the only person in the world who has seen this
>behavior?
>
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