Avast Safe Search

Enhance your online safety by setting Avast Safe Search as your default search engine. This way, you’ll be warned of potentially dangerous websites and get better protection against scams, identity theft, and malware. How it works: 💻 Safer browsing, searching, and shopping By using Avast Safe Search, you can avoid potentially websites, online scams, and identity theft. You’ll get alerts right away if you’ve landed on a dangerous website. 🔒 Protection against online threats Avast Safe Search helps you reduce the risk of falling victim to phishing attacks or downloading potential malware. Setting Avast Safe Search as your default browser actively monitors potentially harmful websites, ensuring you only interact with safe and secure websites. ❇️ Peace of mind while browsing Avast Safe Search will let you know if a site is potentially dangerous before you visit them, making it easier for you to know if a site is trustworthy—letting you browse with confidence. 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. “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. “Change your search settings to bing.com” Shown for permissions needed for delivery of search results through the Avast Safe Search service. This extension also uses permissions that are not displayed in Chrome for performing certain functions within the extension: “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. --- By using this add-on, you agree to our End User License Agreement ( will be a link to https://www.avast.com/eula) and have read and acknowledge our General Privacy Policy (will be link to https://www.avast.com/privacy-policy). Gen respects the privacy of our users and carefully safeguards personal data. For more information: https://www.gendigital.com/privacy Copyright ©2026 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