Internet Explorer 8 may stop responding or crash when a certain version of AVG Safe Search is installed

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SYMPTOMS

Windows Internet Explorer 8 may stop responding or crash when a certain version of AVG Safe Search is installed:

If you are seeing this article after clicking a link in Internet Explorer 8: Your browser is in a special no-add-ons mode so that you can fix a compatibility problem with AVG Safe Search, a component of AVG Anti-Virus.

Note AVG Safe Search is a component of AVG Anti-Virus.

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CAUSE

This problem may occur if you are using an incompatible version of the AVG software.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, update the AVG software to the latest version. To do this, open the AVG user interface, and then click Update now to automatically download and install the latest version of the AVG software.

Or, visit the following AVG Web site to obtain the latest version of the AVG software:

http://free.avg.com/ (http://free.avg.com/)

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