By infecting millions of users, the developers could rake in a tidy amount of profit. If your ChromeOS Convertible is limited on storage. The extensions were redirecting users’ Google searches to third-party search engines, likely in return for a small affiliate fee. Downloads Location - This will allow you to change the location that Chrome will download files to. In addition to finding more affected extensions, Palant was able to confirm what the malicious code was doing (or at least had done in the past). These were only the ones that Palant found in a sample of approximately 1,000 extensions.

These include Autoskip for Youtube, Crystal Ad block, Brisk VPN, Clipboard Helper, Maxi Refresher, Quick Translation, Easyview Reader view, Zoom Plus, Base Image Downloader, Clickish fun cursors, Maximum Color Changer for Youtube, Readl Reader mode, Image download center, Font Customizer, Easy Undo Closed Tabs, OneCleaner, and Repeat button, though it is likely that there are other infected extensions. The Java Plugin for web browsers relies on the cross-platform. However yesterday, he disclosed 17 more browser extensions that use the same trick to download and run a JavaScript file. Chrome no longer supports NPAPI (technology required for Java applets).

Palant had no way of confirming what the malicious code in PDF Toolbox did when he first discovered it.

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