Do you use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge?

[Gromett]

These extensions which were previously good, have been taken over by bad actors and are now malware.

Chrome:

• Emoji keyboard online – copy&paste your emoji
• Free Weather Forecast
• Video Speed Controller – Video Manager
• Unlock Discord – VPN Proxy to Unblock Discord Anywhere
• Dark Theme – Dark Reader for Chrome
• Volume Max – Ultimate Sound Booster
• Unblock TikTok – Seamless Access with One-Click Proxy
• Unlock YouTube VPN
• Color Picker, Eyedropper – Geco colorpick
• Weather

Edge:

• Unlock TikTok
• Volume Booster – Increase your sound
• Web Sound Equalizer
• Header Value
• Flash Player – games emulator
• Youtube Unblocked
• SearchGPT – ChatGPT for Search Engine
• Unlock Discord

See this article for more details.

https://cybernews.com/security/chrome-edge-hijacked-by-eighteen-malicious-extensions/

 

[Gromett]

And another one. different one but similar.

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

arstechnica.com

 

[Cookieboy68]

Do you uninstall the app

 

[Roger S]

I use Firefox and last night I kept getting malware. I switched to Edge and seems to be okay now

 

[Simon Select]

Chrome. Although weirdly sometimes it changes my search engine to Yahoo.

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[TinaLes]

Is it the add on apps that make Chrome less secure?
Thanks to this thread being posted, I saw for the 1st time the availability of a volume blaster app claiming to raise the volume on my laptop by "Up To" 600%. I declined to upload the app as its from a 3rd party, which as Grommet suggests could lower the overall security of using the search engine.
Shame as I could do with something that raises the volume on my laptop, as I have to use a separate Blue Tooth speaker, especially when viewing The BBC.
Les

 

[JMCotswolds]

thanks for posting, I just use Firefox and the only plugins on there are Facebook Container, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere and uBlock Origin. I'll keep an eye out in case they start to misbehave!

 

[Simon Select]

Jim told me about one called Brave which is really secure.

 

[manners]

I used Brave until they installed their own vpn without an option not to. I now use Libre Wolf which is supposed to be a more secure version of Firefox which I also use if the default security settings in Libre Wolf breaks some sites.