The common belief is that security products from big brands like
Avast make browsers secure, even if free. This belief fades to some extent if the latest report from
Google on security product is to be believed. Google, recently reported that security systems add new features to that users find useful however, in the process, these companies deploy certain unwanted extensions on the machine that tend change the search provider. All this, make user systems less secure when such products are installed.
Avast weakens SafeZone browser security
To confirm this, Google started to analyze browser extensions and and found the results quite surprising. The three custom Chromium-based browsers the search-giant analyzed were found to weaken security instead of improving it.