Avast Home Page

Safely search the web from your home page on Chrome, with Avast. Stay away from phishing and other risky sites.

Enhance your home page with customizable backgrounds, dark mode, weather updates, bookmarks, and more. Enjoy a tailored experience while browsing safely and securely. Make sure to pair your Avast Home Page with the Avast Safe Search extension to protect your searches! Avast Safe Search will let you know which site is potentially dangerous before you click. How it works: 🔒Comprehensive online protection When installed along with Avast Safe Search, you can be better protected against identity theft, phishing scams, and other potential threats while browsing, searching, or shopping online. Avast will warn you if a website potentially dangerous. 🛑 Know when a site is potentially dangerous Install the Avast Safe Search extension with Avast Home Page to avoid potentially dangerous or fake websites before clicking. That way, it helps you avoid harmful websites—ensuring a safer online experience. 🎨 Customizable and enhanced home page Personalize your home page with features like customizable backgrounds, dark mode, weather updates, and quick access to bookmarks, creating a more engaging and tailored browsing experience. 🛠️ Set Avast as your home page Installing this extension requires you to set Avast as your Home Page and New Tab page in Chrome. Terms This extension uses permissions that produce the following Chrome messages to perform necessary functions within the extension. "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit” Shown for permissions needed for detecting online risks on all types of pages you browse. “Read your browsing history” Shown for permissions needed for creation and management of tabs and information from the extension’s installation page. Displaying site safety rating information reliably during tab manipulations by Chrome or the user. “Replace the page you see when opening a new tab.” Shown for permissions needed for changing the new tab and home page to Avast Safe Search. “Display notifications” Shown for permissions needed for showing alerts when important changes happen for protection activity or when authentication is required for certain features. “This extension can read and change your data on sites. You can control which sites the extension can access.” Shown for permissions needed for exchange of configuration information for performing safety markup on search results: “webRequest” permission Used to obtain search terms from the omnibar/address bar. “webRequestBlocking” permission Used to add data needed to perform safety markup on search results. “storage” permission Used to store and retrieve settings data used by the extension. This extension also uses permissions that are not displayed in Chrome for performing certain functions within the extension ------- If you do not consent to this data collection and usage, please do not install this add-on or remove it if it is already installed. By using this add-on, you agree to our End User License Agreement (https://www.avast.com/eula) and have read and acknowledge General Privacy Policy (https://www.avast.com/privacy-policy). Copyright © 2024 Gen Digital Inc. All rights reserved. All trademarks, service marks, and tradenames (collectively, the “Marks”) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gen Digital Inc. or its affiliates (“Gen”) or other respective owners that have granted Gen the right to use such Marks. For a list of Gen Marks, please see GenDigital.com/trademarks.