Google Chrome users warned to delete 16 popular extensions due to ‘malicious’ threat risk

NY Post ^ | 2/28/25 | Eric Hegedus

[Libloather]

You've been warned.

[SaveFerris]

Bookmark

[monkeyshine]

“Mike Adblock für Chrome”
Nothing suspicious about that name lol

[thinden]

Bttt

[Omnivore-Dan]

Jeez. I don’t suppose MS is going to reimburse anyone for their troubles. “Do not turn off your computer”. Really? I’ll turn anything off in my house I damn sure want to. Take your updates and stick them where the sun don’t shine. Before retiring I was in IT for over 45 years. I never saw such sloppy software until MS.

[Chickensoup]

That include Brave?

[Raycpa]

Bkmk

[maddog55]

Who uses Google Chrome?

[jeffc]

Same here. I remember the 90's. MS updates were waited for with anticipation as they were worth it and usually had goodies included (decent add-ons).

Now I disconnect my laptop from the internet during the "non active hours"...

[jeffc]

My wife still uses Google Chrome. I told her about Brave and how I don’t see ads when I stream the same services she does. I guess it’ll take some time for me to convince her....

[Pontiac]

I used it for inputting my time while working a short term job. It was the only browser the crap program worked on.

But I don’t use it for anything else and I don’t want it on my machine so I deleted it.

[DJ Frisat]

Brave is Chrome-based and uses the same extensions. If It’s corrupted extensions that cause the problem, it seems like it may also be an issue.

That stated, I’m not sure...

[Nailbiter]

for later

[MikelTackNailer]

Dang, Google dropped extension vulnerability education to make time for DEI briefings. Someone is going to need a safe space and a puppy.

[Bob434]

Use adguard- blocks almost all ads- and you can block certain page cells like any news items that search engines want to shove on us- ai buttons, etc individually. I want a clean sea4ch engine, not one with “suggested sites” and “suggested news stories” which are always liberal cesspool stories clutter8ng up the search page.

[dayglored]

Chrome extension warning ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to MikelTackNailer for the ping!

[ducttape45]

I had Super Dark Mode and my chromium browsers disabled it. I removed it anyway cuz it sucked.

[Carriage Hill]

“...users should manually delete them if they are still installed on their browsers.”

HOW do we do that? Any suggestion(s)?

[Carriage Hill]

OK, I figured it out.

Chrome Menu (top right) -> More Tools -> Extensions -> Delete individual Extensions by name.

[Paal Gulli]

OT but if you really need Chrome functionality, you might want to drop it and replace it with one of the many de-G**gled Chrome derivatives.

I'm primarily a *NIX user and the security set-ups of most financial institutions (and the Veterans Administration) are geared to M$ browsers so I find I sometimes have to resort to playing musical browsers to find one that works.

So it's not my "EDB" (every-day browser) but Iron, SRWare's (de-G**gled) fork of Chrome, works for my banking and investment institutions and most government agencies.