Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge: uninstall these extensions now! They are dangerous

Source: HW Upgrade added 20th Dec 2020

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If you use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge as a web browser and you have some extensions active you will do well to look at this list and uninstall the ones that are very dangerous. Here is the full list for both web browsers.

by Bruno Mucciarelli published , at 14: 31 in the channel Web

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Web browser extensions have become a constant for those who want to make the most and even more profitable surfing the Net. In this case there are so many extensions that we can apply to our web browser but unfortunately, as often happens with other tech devices, viruses are always in order of the day. And even in this case here come the researchers of Avast that launch a new alarm on the extensions of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge: here are the dangerous extensions

In this case the Avast report on Extensions hazard concerns for accuracy 15 Google Chrome extensions but also well 13 extensions for Microsoft Edge . The report even highlights that more than 3 million users have installed the 28 extensions that are dangerous and that these have caused possible problems through malicious code.

The extensions, in this case, would do nothing but redirect traffic to advertisements created purposely by the bad guys. In this case, the redirection would also take place against phishing sites for the collection of sensitive personal data of users or even the browsing history and therefore the attempt to download viruses on notebooks or desktop PCs.

What then are the offending extensions on both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge?

GOOGLE CHROME

  • Direct Message for Instagram
  • DM for Instagram
  • Invisible mode for Instagram Direct Message
  • Downloader for Instagram
  • App Phone for Instagram
  • Stories for Instagram
  • Universal Video Downloader
  • Video Downloader for FaceBook ??
  • Vimeo ?? Video Downloader
  • Zoomer for Instagram and FaceBook
  • VK UnBlock. Works fast.
  • Odnoklassniki UnBlock. Works quickly.
  • Upload photo to Instagram ??
  • Spotify Music Downloader
  • The New York Times News

MICROSOFT EDGE

  • Direct Message for Instagram ??
  • Instagram Download Video & Image
  • App Phone for Instagram
  • Universal Video Downloader
  • Video Downloader for FaceBook ??
  • Vimeo ?? Video Downloader
  • Volume Controller
  • Stories for Instagram
  • Upload photo to Instagram ??
  • Pretty Kitty, The Cat Pet
  • Video Downloader for YouTube
  • SoundCloud Music Downloader
  • Instagram App with Direct Message DM

The discovery of all these malicious extensions by Avast and its experts was about a month old but some of these extensions have been around for quite a while more time i.e. from at least December 2018 . The advice clearly in these cases is to uninstall immediately, if any, the offending extensions and to monitor your PC in case of anomalies.