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What is; Mozilla Firefoxavg-secure-search.xml

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Hello all. I was poking around my hard drive, and I found this file; ""Mozilla Firefoxavg-secure-search.xml"". I thought I had removed AVG from my system. Should I get rid of this too?

Hello all. I was poking around my hard drive, and I found this file; ""Mozilla Firefoxavg-secure-search.xml"". I thought I had removed AVG from my system. Should I get rid of this too?

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Thank you all. I have deleted the file, and searched the hard drive for other; AVG. I found several other files and directories and also deleted those as well. I still wonder how that file got into the C:\Program Files. I was sure it was not there several days earlier. Oh well. Good night all.

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hello, that's likely a search engine provider which is showing up in the search bar. if you don't use/need it, you can remove this xml file...

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The reason I am asking was I found it in; C:\Program Files. I read about the problems that many reported with AVG. I also had some problems so I had removed it.

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What's the full path to the file? If philipp's theory is correct, you would expect to find it the first of the following folders, or possibly the second:

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\browser\searchplugins
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\browser\extensions
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I found it in; C:\Program Files.

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I don't think programs should be placing any files in the root of C:\Program Files\ -- only in their own folders. If the file is there, I suggest deleting it.

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Thank you all. I have deleted the file, and searched the hard drive for other; AVG. I found several other files and directories and also deleted those as well. I still wonder how that file got into the C:\Program Files. I was sure it was not there several days earlier. Oh well. Good night all.