AVG secure search

Have just done a factory default on a Compaq CQ 61 running Vista basic with SP2.
Now I have downloaded most of the updates and all of a sudden I find opening IE I get an AVG search window.

Is there any way of getting rid of this wretched app as I don't like it and never to my knowledge asked for it to be installed. I cannot find it in any of the programs either - in Start list, REVO, or Window Cont Pan.

Any help greatly appreciated as it has taken me all day to get this messed up machine into some working order.

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Should be very easy, my friend.
Internet Explorer: Disable AVG AntiVirus Safe Search | Technipages

Thanks rich on the money - again so appreciated mate:D

All our members are like family; glad that you got it sorted

You know you have a way with words my friend you are so right - just a band of brothers and sisters with a singular goal in mind and that is to help one another.

I have never been on more pleasant forums than Vista, 7, and 8 such a really nice group of folks.

I don't say that lightly or flippantly or mean it in a condescending manner I say what I think and in keeping with my honour as an Englishman. A fact that is sadly lost on many.