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Chrome Adds Warning For Extensions That Take Over Your Proxy Settings (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the heads-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Google engineers have added two new features to the Chrome browser that will alert users of extensions that hijack proxy settings or the new tab page," reports Bleeping Computer. Google has been testing these two techniques sparingly with a small subset of users for more than a year, but they have now landed in Google Canary. The techniques are used by malicious Chrome extensions to hijack traffic and insert ads, or to redirect search traffic to affiliate search engine programs. The addition of these popup alerts are part of Google's plan to fight malicious Chrome extensions that have been starting to plague the Web Store.

2 of 36 comments (clear)

  1. Hey Google, don't let extensions do this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That would solve the problem, no? There really is no valid reason why this should be allowed ever. WTF.

  2. Why? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Chrome Adds Warning For Extensions That Take Over Your Proxy Settings...

    Why does Chrome allow extensions that can hijack proxy settings?

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