Some of these extensions do actually deliver some version of what they promise, but they also make some changes that you may not know you're signing up for.
Extensions that will download YouTube videos for FREE.In searching to find some examples for this article, I noticed a common theme: they almost always promise free stuff. We often see them installed by students at our independent schools. Malicious browser extensions are programs that run inside your web browser that may not have your best interest at heart. Again, you see something that's out of the ordinary:Īsk.com? When did you start using Ask.com as your search engine? When you start seeing unexpected new tab pages and unwanted search engines in your browser, it's a good chance that you may have some malicious browser extensions installed. You don't have Google Calendar bookmarked, so you enter 'Google Calendar' in the omnibox and hit enter. At this point, you might be tipped off that something isn't normal with your web browser, but whatever, you've got work to do. 'That's weird,' you say to yourself, that's not how Chrome usually looks. You immediately notice that something is off, however, because the New Tab page now looks like this: You open up Google Chrome to process your email and look at your calendar. Picture this: you're sitting down at your computer at the start of your workday.
