Avira Toolbar / Bitdefender Traffic light

[Quikfix]

After using Avira Free for almost 2 weeks, I finally realized they have bundled the Ask.com toolbar into their "Web protection" toolbar. Now this is a toughie because if I uninstall it, I'll lose web protection. I decided to do some research and uninstalled the toolbar and installed Bitdefender Traffic Light from the official site. I have a couple of questions:

1. I've uninstalled the Avira SearchFree Toolbar but it still had "Ask.com" as the search thingy on the top right of Firefox. I clicked the down arrow and chose "Google", then I clicked "Manage search engines" and deleted Ask.com. The weird thing is that I'd done this before uninstalling the toolbar and when I uninstalled it, the Ask.com thingy came back, thus making me do it again. Will the Ask.com search thingy ever come back again even though I uninstalled it twice? Is it still keeping tabs through spyware on my computer even though the toolbar is uninstalled?

2. I installed Bitdefender traffic light as I mentioned above. Since I don't have web protection now, I thought it would be a good idea to install it. I installed the "Trafficlight", not any of the browser extensions. How do I update it, since I don't see an update button? Will this work with Avira Free Antivirus or will I need some exclusions? Is this application effective?

Thanks, and if any of you guys know the answers to those questions (even part of question!), don't hesistate to post. Thanks alot guys!

[daledoc1]

Hi, Quikfix:

Re: Bitdefender trafficlight, have you checked at their forum: http://forum.bitdefe...showtopic=26528 or the User Guide: http://trafficlight....s_Userguide.pdf ?

HTH,

daledoc1

[CWB]

if you are using FF , you can check for updates manually by opening tools/add-ons , then clicking the "cogwheel" just to the left of the "search all add-ons" box .

i believe that FF will check for updates automatically if told to .

[daledoc1]

if you are using FF , you can check for update manually by opening tools/add-ons , then clicking the "cogwheel" just to the left of the "search all add-ons" box .

True 'dat!

i believe that FF will check for updates automatically if told to .

Also true.

Thanks for that added clarification, CWB.

Not sure, though, if that updating (manual or auto) via add-ons mananger page within Fx applies to extensions NOT hosted at AMO or to "global" extensions, such as AV browser plug-ins, printer plug-ins or some of these toolbars (which are updated via the software vendor)????

[Quikfix]

I see, thanks for the info, but I don't have the FF extension, I've downloaded "Trafficlight", not any of the extensions. The info was still useful as I noticed that I needed to update Ad-block Plus Pop-up addon

I haven't checked their forum but I did read the user manual.

Btw, have any of you guys heard of a BSOD that says "NO_IRPS_STACKING". This happened when I deleted Avira Free and downloaded Avast Free. Just after the installation of avast was done, it said "Windows is shutting down to prevent damage to your computer" (In BSOD mode). Then it said the NO IRP... thing. I don't know what this means but I don't really wanna stick with Avira. It also happens with Comodo Free and the 3 month free trial of Bullguard. It's so annoying! The only antivirus I can download without that happening is AVG (useless) or Avira (unethical).

[DarkSnakeKobra]

Hi

On the ask search engine: it's possible that you may have had the browser open or was still running in the back ground when you removed it causing the open settings(ones in memory) to overwrite the changes.

On the BSD: Normally it's recommended to reboot twice after installing an antivirus/firewall one for the program and one for the drivers. The drivers are sometimes still there after the first reboot which may have caused a conflict somewhere in there.

[Quikfix]

Hi

On the ask search engine: it's possible that you may have had the browser open or was still running in the back ground when you removed it causing the open settings(ones in memory) to overwrite the changes.

On the BSD: Normally it's recommended to reboot twice after installing an antivirus/firewall one for the program and one for the drivers. The drivers are sometimes still there after the first reboot which may have caused a conflict somewhere in there.

Oh, okay. Thanks.

By the way, how'd ya change your name?