

Mozilla does not encourage the use of questionable antiviruses. Mozilla is working on a solution together with Avast. This means that users who have already installed the extension can continue to use it, if they wish. Not Blacklisted YetĪlthough Mozilla has removed the antivirus extensions from its website, they are not yet blacklisted. The latter has now taken action against the antivirus companies. Both Google and Mozilla even prohibit it. This is not needed for the extension to function. The extension, for example, collected users’ search history. In October it was already revealed that Avast Online Security and AVG Online Security both store unnecessary user information. Following the discoveries of Adblock Plus founder Wladimir Palant, Mozilla chose to remove Avast Online Security, Avast Safeprice, AVG Online Security, and AVG Safeprice from the website for Mozilla extensions.

Four antivirus extensions were removed from the Firefox download list after they were found to be collecting much more data than they needed.
